Month: June 2005

Sean Penn travelled to Iraq in 2003 and sent back two dispatches for the San Francisco Chronicle. Yes, he has the press credentials in spite of the right wing taunts about his being only an actor, a leftie actor. His writing is...

This past Friday, it was my great honor and privilege to attend the wedding ceremony of a good friend of mine (for those who may have read my first diary entry, yep, it’s one of my fraternity brothers).  He is a very...

Because if we don’t address our own internal problems, they will grow, and we will lose strength and momentum as a progressive movement at a time we need it the most.   We are up against a political machine that is...

“It is a sign of how far the lower federal courts have drifted to the right that the Supreme Court had to correct this racially discriminatory prosecution.”      – From today’s...

I noticed some people on this blog care a lot about Dafur and other cases of genocide and human rights abuses. Some were also looking for more information on the issue in general. I am a member of the European Network of...