The Greanville Journal

By Gary Corseri
5/31/07
So I broke down and I watched the Miss Universe pageant.
It just happened to come on while I was finishing my late dinner. I hadn’t planned on it. Suddenly, there are these 77 gorgeous limbs, torsos and faces saying “Miss Denmark,” “Miss U.S.A.,” “Miss Angola,” “Miss India,” etc.
It’s a lot showier than […]

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By Doug Soderstrom
5/31/07

Having grown up in a small town in Central Kansas I was taught to believe that my country, the United States of America, was a land committed to justice and peace, a nation that one could count on to do the right thing, a country of civilized folks who had but one thing […]

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by Stephen Lendman
5/31/07

Probably no word better defines or underscores the Bush presidency than “terrorism” even though his administration wasn’t the first to exploit this highly charged term. We use to explain what “they do to us” to justify what we “do to them,” or plan to, always deceitfully couched in terms of humanitarian intervention, promoting […]

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“Part of the reason I did it was to protest the injustice of so much money going to Offutt and letting the poor people in North Omaha, the blacks, wallow in poverty. Nobody seemed to care about that.”

“I’m just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh, Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.”
—The Animals
Is This […]

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by Carolyn Baker
5/31/07

Corporate media—and even some alternative websites, are blaring with headlines about Cindy Sheehan “quitting” the anti-war movement. It is true that Sheehan has stepped down as the consummate symbol of the ordinary, salt-of-the-earth American mother crusading against the empire for the end of the war that brought about her son’s meaningless death. But […]

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JOHN BOLTON HELPING TO COUNT THE BALLOTS IN FLORIDA DURING THE 2000 FRAUDULETION
BY JOE MOWREY
Everyone is carping about the betrayal of the antiwar movement by the Democrats. It won’t take more than a few paragraphs to state the obvious. We no longer live in anything resembling a democracy, and we haven’t for many decades now. […]

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By Paul A. Donovan
5/30/07

With the 2008 election approaching fast, I find myself with the same unsettled feeling I had in the last presidential race to the bottom. Perhaps it is because I feel that the age-old maxim, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” is as true for today as […]

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