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Jessica Lange is against it. So is Susan Sarandon. Bonnie Raitt's not in favor of bombing Baghdad. Neither are Michael Stipe, Madonna and Martin Sheen, who plays a president on television but thinks the real one is a "moron.'' When it comes to the impending war on Iraq, a phalanx of famous faces is speaking out against it. Which means that everything they say is being blasted by pro-war pundits, who believe celebrities should confine their opinions to the Zone diet and stay out of demilitarized zones. Take for instance the shellacking that singer Sheryl Crow recently got after appearing...

<p>A French friend once told me, describing the French character, "France could never have a Hitler. You see, if a leader here tried to implement some crazy policies and force people to follow his will, we would all hit the streets and tell him where to go." Of course, the French sometimes do that when the proposal is as benign as restructuring schools.</p>

Regarding John Leo's Sept. 17 Op-ed article "Faculties in need of balance": So John Leo and the (oh so diverse!) American Enterprise Institute think there is insufficient diversity of political affiliation among university faculty. Their poll numbers show that Republicans are a small minority of the professoriate. True, and rightly so. In seeking faculty, universities look for people who can analyze and discuss matters of some complexity, who are unafraid to challenge the wisdom of simple solutions, and who have a sense of social responsibility toward those who cannot buy influence. Such people tend to be put off by a...

Call for a dual mobilization for total liberation. Or rather- an October uprising. In October- the streets of DC, and Denver, CO will erupt. 2 forces made up of many movements with much historical/herstorical precedent will converge. The anti-capitalist, the anti-imperialist, the anti- colonialist, the anti-authoritarian, the anti-capitalist, the anti- patriarchy, the anti-white supremacy will all take to the streets in these 2 cities. It seems absurd we would argue our comrades one way or another- as if there were some sort of dichotomy. Therefore we don't intend to do so. Instead, we propose this: Both mobilizations are seen as...

Pledge for the Workers My daughter, who is 11, and I were delighted at the California court decision omitting the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance. She and I have always been uncomfortable saying the pledge, not only because of the religious imposition, but because it seems very strange to pledge loyalty to a scrap of cloth representing a corrupt nation that imposes its will, both economic and military, around the world by force. So she inspired me to rewrite the Pledge. Imagine schoolchildren every day reciting the following: ledge allegiance to all the ordinary people around the...

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Senator Hillary: Lying weasel or lightning rod? Ancient fears lurk deep in the recesses of the male medulla: of saber-toothed tigers, solar eclipses, hunger, wolves, mastodons and, it is becoming clear, of Hillary Clinton. No woman in the past 50 years has aroused such vitriol, such primal hatred and fear, such resentment among right-wing men of Neanderthal descent (and among anti-feminist women) as our former first lady. While conservative fundraisers find that just her name is enough to pour millions into their organizations, right-wing blondes like Laura Ingraham (The Hillary Trap) and Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan (The Case Against Hillary ...