Present and Future

H.W. Brands' scholarly specialty is U.S. foreign relations. So Tim Walker asked him to address some of the disintegrating ones.

"...And what of Iraq? Brands notes that despite the White House's efforts to..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Books Feature by Tim Walker

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...an alternate place to take a dip in the warm weeks ahead. The pool is slated to be closed..."

April 16, 1999 News Feature

An Opera for Wartime

Philip Glass' Waiting for the Barbarians arrives when its message is urgently needed

"...Guernica, rising from the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, or Arthur Miller's The Crucible, emerging from the anti-communist..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Beyond Limits Otherwise Prescribed

George W. Bush refuses to put our money where his mouth is in matters of domestic defense, even though all the experts testify that America is as vulnerable to major terrorist attacks today as it was on 9 / 11.

"...More than 50% of the population of Iraq is under 15 years old. That is the fact..."

March 21, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Thanksgiving as a Refugee in America

Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

"...native Syria and literally walked across middle eastern borders toward an uncertain future. Othman is honest about their journey:..."

Nov. 25, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

More Austin Politicos Choose Sides on President

The mayor sides with Obama, three state reps choose Clinton

"...ago, state Reps. Valinda Bolton, Eddie Rodriguez, and Donna Howard endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton for prez. (see their respective..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

Page Two: Along the Bias

Lack of media objectivity cuts all ways

"...– Jimmy Stewart in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Looney Tunes

A swan song for the conspiracy series

"...Constitution. This is not even to mention the whole Iraq debacle: lies, misinformation, graft, corruption, and theft. Concentrating on..."

July 13, 2007 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Report

Corporate Creeps Bilk the Elderly; and Al Qaeda Banks on Bush

"...his cohort, "Buckshot" Cheney, no one really likes his Iraq policy – not the generals, not the troops dying..."

June 8, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...West Texas Beach Ball has won the People's Choice Award in Austin's inaugural City Hall art exhibition. The piece..."

March 3, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...half of the foreign fighters killing our children in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia. So the Bush response was..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Column

The Hightower Report

U.S. media establishment yawned at damming Downing Street Memo; and Merck launches advertising blitz to portray itself as 'huggable teddy bear of a corporation'

"...MEDIA ASLEEP ON BUSH'S WAR LIES Thank goodness the establishment media barons in our..."

July 1, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Look a Little Closer

"...facts were being fixed around the policy" of invading Iraq, even though there was no real reason to actually..."

May 20, 2005 Postmarks

More From 'Iconoclast' Country

W. Leon Smith on freedom of speech, peace, and Crawford

"...And there were other elements, too, such as the war in Iraq. We felt like the country was misled...."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Libs Tap Badnarik for Prez

Austinite will carry third-party flag into November battle

"...trainer for Evolutionary Technologies International, an Austin database management software firm, and says he now earns much of his..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

Kucinich comes to Austin on his "formal announcement" tour.

"...Kucinich spoke only briefly and primarily about the U.S. war in Iraq. He proposed a peace plan to get..."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

The Hightower Lowdown

George talks the macho talk, soldiers walk the deadly walk; and Congress says "Health care for me, but not for thee."

"...BUSH THE 'WARRIOR'..."

July 25, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

From Liberty Lunch to Homeland Security: Austin's Walk With CSC

Computer Sciences Corp. is now one of America's largest defense contractors. Is this a problem for City Hall?

"...recently passed a resolution opposing a unilateral attack on Iraq -- now linked to the Bush war machine? Not..."

March 7, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...& Congress to protest the continued economic sanctions against Iraq. "Our main interest is to educate the American people..."

Nov. 20, 1998 News Feature

Naked City

"...the impact of economic sanctions on the people of Iraq. Like other opponents, Dr. Peter Pellet criticized the 8-year-old..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature

When the Furies Sing

"...in a row: impeachment proceedings and the bombing of Iraq. Perhaps my memory is faulty. Perhaps there were three..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Point Austin: Twilight of the Empire

Obama's expansion of the war leads nowhere

"...surprise. In contrast to his expressed opposition to the war on Iraq, Obama (like the other major candidates) campaigned..."

Dec. 4, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Book Reviews

Jay Trachtenberg reviews Robert Kaplan's Warrior Politics, which is now in paperback.

"...Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethosby Robert D...."

March 14, 2003 Books Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Three Kings

This modern classic is a war movie with a conscience, an action movie with a funny bone, a caper movie with a shifting agenda.

"...be an act of heroism. Three Kings is a war movie with a conscience, an action movie with a..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM: Too Much of Nothing

The United States pacifies Afghanistan just enough so that China can profit

"...Obama administrations have carefully failed to mention that we're warring in China's backyard, but, just so you know, so..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Doggett vs. the Doctor

Will right-wingers oust the liberal congressman? Tea party on, dudes.

"...an application form binding Texas to a three-year commitment toward spending the money on education. The amendment, says Doggett,..."

Oct. 22, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Hightower Report

Bush; and FEMA Strikes Again

"...suggested that their real reason for invading and occupying Iraq was a crude item spelled o-i-l. But now that..."

July 4, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

Letters @ 3AM

The archetypes in this Democratic primary are Mama and He Who Can Free the Sword From the Stone

"...into the trap that my long-ago mentor John Ertha warned me against: "Don't mistake your limitations for the limitations..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: A Living Constitution

The promise of liberty, unedited

"...if in a demonstration of our might we invaded Iraq, we would be greeted as liberators by citizens demanding..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Column by Louis Black

License to Shrill, Uncensored

A conversation with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman

"...politics go hand in hand and that a broad postwar middle class was matched by relatively centrist politics...."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

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