The Generic Drug Ripoff
Reading the American and foreign press, you'd think two separate agreements were being reached this month to allow poor countries to buy generic...
Geov Parrish

Rumsfeld's Fall From Grace
History books will characterize the Bush administration for its in-fighting: the struggle between Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, backed by a...
Maria Tomchick

The Gold Rush Is On Hold
It is as though, in 1848, the lab reports back from California's streams revealed that prospectors had only found some speckled yellow quartz. Or in...
Geov Parrish

The LEIU Trials
On August 28, several protesters charged with crimes from the LEIU (Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit) protests in Seattle on June 2, 2003 attended...
Kirsten Anderburg

Zapatistas Take Control
Over the last decade of their rebellion, the Zapatistas of Chiapas have demonstrated again and again that they follow their own drummer and that...
Troy Skeels

A Yes For I-77
With only a matter of days to go before the September 16 primary election, I thought I would put in a good word for the much beleaguered Seattle...
Rick Giombetti

A Tax To Get Steamed By
For all our political differences, there are two favorite themes the ever-verbose Tim Eyman likes to warm to that I can't disagree with: what a...
Geov Parrish

I-77: The Steam Tax
I-77 has worthy goals, but the law itself is flawed to the point of absurdity. Like other dumb laws, it has unintended consequences that make it...
Troy Skeels

Exodus of the Geeks
A long time ago, during the last epoch of the New Economy, all the computer Geeks worked for large Multinational Corporations. They toiled in their...
Zbignew Zingh