Democratic Conversation

by Mark Beyer 
The airwaves and cyberpages hum with comments on Tibet’s domestic uprising against Chinese rule, repression, and their latest military crackdown against mostly (but not exclusively) peaceful demonstrations. The reporting is dutiful, the commentary sympathetic. But the Tibetans need neither dutiful nor sympathetic words. What they need is action.
But what can The West do? […]

by Mark Beyer 
What I think really doesn’t matter. Only, lets look at some facts on the largest issues of the 2008 presidential election.
If you vote for Sen. John McCain, you vote for $1 billion per week spent to fund George W. Bush’s Iraq occupation. Whatever else the Iraq occupation is and is not, the American […]