Another Dead Black Guy
Some eyewitness accounts of last Monday's fatal U-District encounter between Shawn Maxwell, 31, and a circle of SPD officers are raising troubling...
Geov Parrish

Axis of Feeble
Do President George W. Bush, and the handlers who craft his public statements, simply make this shit up as they go along? The president of the...
Geov Parrish

Beating the System...to Death
The irony of the Enron bankruptcy is that the very people who would have been protected by ethical accounting standards would have whined like hell...
Steve Fournier

Death of a True Terrorist
The selectiveness of the US "War on Terrorism" was grimly demonstrated this past week by the long-overdue death of one of the world's most notorious...
Geov Parrish

Ets! Farmer's Almanac
The Thistle Forest February is when city slickers prune their roses and fruit trees, cut back their blackberry vines, and tug up bamboo runners....
Sam

Focus On The Corporation
Rotten to the Core Frank Easterbrook and Daniel Fischel are University of Chicago law professors who believe that, when it comes to making profits,...
Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Hey Ets! Readers!!
You're looking at the very first regularly occurring 12-page issue in ETS!' history! More contributions (and, oddly enough, advertisers) since 9-11...
The (volunteer) editors

Lipetsk: Strike at a Russian Sweatshop
Unless you are a very conscientious buyer or just extremely curious, it may have escaped your notice that a lot of retail clothing is being made in...
Curtis Vaughn

My Official Protest
How do you get me to read the sports page? Let NBC cover the Winter Olympics. I'm a "do-it-yourself" sports fan. If I can't play, I'm really not...
Maria Tomchick

Planting Democracy
The words caught my eye as I walked through Oaxaca's town square: Zapata Vive, Su Lucha Sigue (Zapata Lives, his struggle continues). This and other...
Troy Skeels

The "Rapid Refund" Scam
Would you pay over 100% (maybe even 500%) annual interest to get money you could have for free nine days later? Many, mainly poorer, taxpayers are...
ETS! Wire Service

Reclaim Our History [461]
Feb. 27. 1973: Village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, occupied by American Indian Movement activists in response to campaign of terror by tribal and...

Volunteerus Chompus
This week's ETS! volunteer needs: * Ad Salespeople * Good graphics (cartoons, photos, artwork) * Help with organizing benefits (bands welcome!) Call...