War Drums

The war is over, but all these people keep dying anyway …

"...imagination, or has the mainstream U.S. press declared the war in Iraq is over? Ever since the laughable handover..."

Aug. 6, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Another War for Sale

NPR covers 'Iran and the Bomb' – from A to B

"...You might think fighting two major wars in the middle of a worldwide economic recession would..."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Column by Michael King

The Gods of War

America is distracted by the Pledge "crisis" while our government readies for war.

"...The downballot candidates also genuflected, but the Wretched Excess Award goes to Democratic Senate candidate Ron Kirk: "With Texas..."

July 12, 2002 News Column by Michael King

War Drums

"...Current U.S. plans for the pending war in Iraq call for an attack on Baghdad as..."

Feb. 21, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

War Drums

"...First Unitarian Universalist Church, on the looming threat of war with Iraq. The crowd enthusiastically welcomed guest of honor..."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

End the War

"...that there has been, at best, almost no responsible coverage of this poorly conceived and even more poorly executed..."

July 29, 2007 Postmarks

Stop the Loss

Austin veterans turn away from Iraq and war

"...contract. Now Porter is eight months into his second Iraq deployment, engaged in a war that he, like many..."

Dec. 19, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM

Winning the war in Iraq is not a measure of our country's morality.

"...largely unspoken on television and unwritten in most printed Iraq War coverage: "depleted uranium." U.S. and British tank, artillery,..."

April 18, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Capitol Chronicle

As the year turns, the auguries of war predict the worst

"...in the last couple of weeks, you are abundantly aware that in the judgment of the Bush administration --..."

Dec. 27, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Page Two

When Rush Limbaugh reinvented the blindly loyal conformist as a daring, oppressed, truth-seeking revolutionary, he also re-created the mainstream in his image

"...of the most hard-right, conservative Republican positions, they are pro-Iraqi invasion, anti-tax, and anti-big-government. Conversely, they are deeply anti-Democrat,..."

July 2, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...at a Students for a Democratic Society meeting, an anti-war movement event, or a combination of the two. The..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Navasky & Barsamian

Former editor of The Nation discusses the role of the alternative press

"...that regularly features guests like Bill Moyers, Jello Biafra, Howard Zinn, and Arundhati Roy and has a 20-year history..."

April 7, 2006 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Point Austin: Counting the Dead

Whatever their number, the Iraqi casualties lie at our feet

"...as of July 2006, there have been 654,965 excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Column by Michael King

The True Cost of Empire

The sacrifices of U.S. soldiers represent only an installment on the payments due

"...and elsewhere – the growing human cost of the war against Iraq – as well as a small counterweight..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Column by Michael King

CNN Obama-Clinton Debate: The full transcript

Word for word, the whole shebang

"...been friends before this campaign started; we'll be friends afterwards, unified to bring about changes in this country. You..."

Feb. 21, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

The Hightower Report

Stand Up To War; and Ignoring Paris

"...STAND UP TO WAR PROFITEERS George W.'s war in Iraq has not been..."

March 30, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

Postmarks

We Get What We Want

"...enjoyed Lee Nichols' article regarding our local area news coverage ["Media Clips," Vol. 17, No. 24]. Though I agree..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...The Houston Chronicle, our so-called metropolitan daily, continues lurching toward the right (it began with their endorsement of the..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...a connection between Creative Commons and the "open source" software movement contains a glaring inaccuracy regarding the terms of..."

March 7, 2003 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...Thanks for the great coverage of the LCRA plan to run a water pipeline..."

May 21, 2004 Column

Page Two

What would have happened if we had not invaded Afghanistan and Iraq?

"...that not only did I oppose the invasion of Iraq, but that the long-term consequences have always been the..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Column by Louis Black

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Our readers talk back.

"...planning. Oil supplies are down, air pollution and global warming are up, and Central Texas politicians and planners still..."

May 28, 2004 Column

Page Two

More than the insanity or weaponry of Saddam Hussein, we should fear the deepening of a rift between the Muslim world and the West. The haste with which we are building toward war in Iraq is sending the wrong message to both.

"...Whether or not we should go to war with Iraq should probably be a more open question..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Column by Louis Black

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Our readers talk back.

"...Your self-righteous tone in discussing the imminent Iraq war is not palatable in a publication that profits..."

March 21, 2003 Column

WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception

"News dissector" Danny Schechter examines the media's complicity in promoting the war on terrorism.

"...other thorny questions about the media’s complicity in the war on Iraq. Schechter probes his subject matter not with..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hightower Report

Fifty percent of Americans say they want Congress to consider impeaching Bush if he lied about his reasons for invading Iraq; and while Big Oil gouges America, Congress gives refiners new tax breaks and anti-pollution requirement exemptions

"...his, George W. keeps telling us that he's "a war president." So, how's the chief doing? Let's do Bush..."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Our readers talk back.

"...Thank you for your excellent reporting and coverage of the deplorable situation on Lick Creek, as well..."

March 25, 2005 Column

Page Two

The manufactured debate over Kerry's war record, in light of Bush's privileged nonparticipation, is testament to Republican strategists' sound-bite brilliance

"...as obscene. Consider the manufactured controversy over John Kerry's war record. The following excerpts are from a letter to..."

May 21, 2004 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Report

War Numbers; and Ignoring News of the People

"...WAR NUMBERS At last, the Bushites have realized that they..."

July 14, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Our readers talk back.

"...Thanks for your coverage of gay foster parents, and thanks especially for putting..."

May 16, 2003 Column

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