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from Third Estate Sunday Review
Is it necessary for IVAW to go on the record supporting war resisters when they already publicly do?
Yes, it is. And that’s not due to any inaction on the part of IVAW. It is due to the inaction on many in small media with The Nation, as usual these days, leading the way as worst example.
The Peace Resister‘s just not interested in war resisters. Give her a petition and she’s happy to blog about that. Give her a courageous stand and she crumples. And prevents anyone else from covering it in the pages of the magazine which is how you with all of those 2006 “online exclusive” features on Ehren Watada whose name never makes it into print until a January 2007 issue where he’s called a “coward” and then (for balance?) he’s given a tiny sidebar to the main article (about the petition, by the way).
The Nation wants you to act . . . online! Step out of line — pay attention Cindy Sheehan, Katha Pollitt’s gunning for you — and be slammed or ignored. It’s all about what looks most ‘respectable’ for the Democratic Party [empasis added] which goes a long way towards explaining how a once vibrant magazine became the dreary, muddled mess it currently is.
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- Announcing the Dave Dellinger Essay Contest by 10/5/07
- General Pace’s Skewed Morality by David McReynolds
- keeping soldiers from being redeployed to Iraq
- Agustin Aguayo found guilty of desertion
- Refiled Vs. Ehren Watada
- Lt. Ehren Watada’s Mistrial
- Rockland Green to attend Watada Court Martial
- Who can stop the War? We the People
- The War Prayer by Mark Twain
- What Does It Mean To Support Our Troops?
- How the Democratic Congress betrayed American voters, the troops in Iraq and extended the occupation>
- >Dems conning Anti-War movement for political gain
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