Month November 2004

By Jim Lafferty (Jim Lafferty is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and a member of the Los Angeles A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Steering Committee. He presented this commentary on the  elections on his weekly…

In order to track down a few thousand insurgents, the US has found it necessary to destroy a city of 1.7 million. Madness. Hundreds of thousands of insurgents will now rise up. Reconstruction, could cost the U.S. tens of millions of…

                              Of course, the ever-growing Iraqi insurgency has chosen to ignore the tanks. Something to think about, eh?

President Bush said Social Security reform, a key component of his successful presidential campaign agenda, would be a priority in his second term. A “key component” of his campaign? Hardly. Bush barely mentioned it until the day after the election.…

A young man was shot dead outside this store at Adams and Hill in L.A. earlier this week. It probably didn’t even make the news. Clearly, a lot of people cared about him…