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Whistle-blower: Palestine Hotel on target list
More than five years have passed since the invasion of Iraq, since President Bush stood under the "Mission Accomplished" banner on that aircraft carrier. While these fifth anniversaries got some notice, another did not: the shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, by a U.S.
1:09 a.m. PT May 15, 2008 | more »

The Clintons and race: What goes around ...

As the Barack and Hillary Show extended its tour to such off-off-off Broadway primary states as Indiana and North Carolina (coming soon to Puerto Rico!), it was inevitable that both sides would dust off the "playing the race card" script.

1:03 a.m. PT May 8, 2008 | more »

The U.S. war on journalists
Sami al-Haj is a free man today, after having been imprisoned by the U.S. military for more than six years. His crime: journalism.

1:04 a.m. PT May 8, 2008 | more »

Anti-American H1-B visas getting a critical look
At long last, there now appears to be at least some chance that egregious abuse of H1-B immigration visas by large corporations might be stopped and American workers given an equal shake with foreign competitors.

9:22 p.m. PT May 4, 2008 | more »

The half-won, half-lost war goes on
The gloomy election-year refrain is that America is mired in Iraq, took its eye off Afghanistan, empowered Iran and is losing the war on terror. But how accurate is that pessimistic diagnosis?

12:48 a.m. PT May 2, 2008 | more »

Right thinking infects the body politic
One of the main themes of my new book, "Right Is Wrong," is the role the media have played in allowing the lunatic fringe now in control of the Republican Party - the people who believe in torture but don't believe in evolution - to hijack our democracy.

12:20 a.m. PT Apr 25, 2008 | more »

Just how neo are the neocons?

In the play "Embedded," Tim Robbins' 2003 satire about the Iraq invasion, a thinly veiled Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz shout with Nazi-like gusto, "Hail, Leo Strauss!" and get sexually aroused at the prospect of international conquest.
12:16 a.m. PT Apr 24, 2008 | more »

Campaign casualties are everywhere
It is only four months into 2008, but the presidential campaign - already too long and nasty - is still a long way from over. And the casualties are mounting.

11:21 p.m. PT Apr 17, 2008 | more »

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Print-a-Thon
Beam Security Systems Inc. and Marc Klaas of the nonprofit KlaasKids Foundation did host a free Print-A-Thon in Grass Valley Saturday to fingerprint and photograph children, in the interest of child safety. The event on Saturday at Beam, 422 Henderson St., Grass Valley.

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