From Alexander Cockburn: My dry-eyed remarks about Tim Russert here last week elicited a large number of enthusiastic letters from CounterPunchers astounded at the commotion at his passing. In a…
Aaron Copeland’s “Lincoln Portrait” (1942). The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra performs and Gregory Peck provides the narration drawn from an array of Lincoln texts, including the Gettysburg Address.
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare,…
It was March 16, 1901. A lanky man with elegant and flowing white hair and a prominent moustache strode to the podium. He hardly needed an introduction: the audience would…
A reader sends in this heartwarming patriotic moment, just in time for the July 4th holiday: Just before school let out, students at Alpine Elementary were thrilled to see a…
Laura Rozen has been running an interesting forum on Iran at Mother Jones, which asks: “How likely is a scenario in which the United States or Israel strikes Iran before…
From IPS: Palestinian activist and former university professor Sami Al-Arian was arraigned Monday in U.S. federal court on two counts of criminal contempt for his refusal to testify in a…
I’ve been away for the past week so over the next few days I’m going to catch up by posting some of the best stories and items I read on…
I can picture my brother as a handsome young boy, all eyes and nerves, traipsing about in the muggy drizzle of Glasgow after his tipsy father. In Dublin I have…
Paul Alexander is a former reporter for Time magazine who has also written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times Magazine and various other publications. He is also a radio…
The Supreme Court overturned the 32-year ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., ruling 5-4 that there is a Second Amendment right to own a gun for personal use. Justice John…