In the current issue...

• My Sin When I Ran for Governor of South Carolina by Dr. Herb Silverman
  

• Book Review of Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
  

• Why Republicans Are in the Grip of an Apocalyptic Rapture Cult Centered on Revenge and Vindication by Frank Schaeffer
  

• Health, War, Hypocrisy & Taxes by: Roberto Rodriguez
  

From past issues..

October 2009

• Why Do 1/3 of New Jersey Conservatives Think Obama Might Be the Anti-Christ? by Rachel Maddow
  

• Taliban leader tells 'invaders' to study history by Jason Straziuso
  

• Health Care a Priority, not a Product by Dr. Herb Silverman
  

• Book Review of Bracing for Armageddon?: The Science and Politics of Bioterrorism in America
  

September 2009

• Facts About Health Care in America
  

• President Obama’s Plans for Health Insurance Reform
  

• Barney Frank Slams Lunatic at Town Hall by Steve Benen
  

August 2009

• Joy Personified: “Jill and Kevin’s Big Day”
  

• Will What We Don't Know (or Care to Know) Hurt Us?  -  Mourning Michael Jackson, Ignoring the Afghan Dead by Tom Engelhardt
  

• African Americans for Humanism (AAH) Update by Norm R. Allen Jr.
  

• Fighting Superstition in Africa by Leo Igwe
  

• Baptist Minister Prays for Death of President Obama
  

• "Ain't You Proud of What America Stands For?"  -  Just Like Hanoi Jane by Marc Levy
  

July 2009

• George Tiller's Patients Speak - From Susie Bright’s Journal
  

• The Long Trip Home: How I Nearly Won the War by Marc Levy
  

• Rating the Greatest GOP Sex Scandals of the Past 20 Years by Brad Reed
  

• Michael Jackson Was a Freak - Just Like You and Me by Richard Kim
  

June 2009

• Poet Peter Levitt Workshop Opportunity
  

• Letter: How Did You Spend Your National Day of Prayer? by John R. Guthrie
  

• The Spider and the Damsel Fly by John R. Guthrie
  

• About the Secular Coalition for America
  

• Church Goers Find Old Habits Hard to Break by Dylan Otto Krider
  

• Review of John W. Troutman's Indian Blues by Shome Dasgupta
  

• Review of Nina Burleigh's Unholy Business by John R. Guthrie
  

May 2009

• Editor’s Note re: Poet Peter Levitt Workshop Opportunity
  

• More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops by Laurie Goodstein
  

• Letter re: Article by David Rovic in April 2009, The Israeli Terror
  

• How Many Aluminum Cans Are Used in the US in thirty Seconds?
  

• Pointy-Headed Liberals, Activist Judges Persecute Bible-Believing Christian. AGAIN!!! by Paula King
  

April 2009

• The Israeli Terror by David Rovic
  

• Is the Twice-Divorced Newt Gingrich Converting to Catholicism for a 2012 Run? by Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast
  

• First They Took God Out of the Classroom… and Now a Christian Mother
  

March 2009

• Book Review: Soft Chaos - AlmaLuz Villanueva’s Latest Book of Poetry
  

• Worse Than My Darkest Nightmare: Binyam Mohamed's Statment Upon Being Released From Gitmo
  

• War Jokes Wanted: No Laughing Matter by Marc Levy and Susan Erony
  

February 2009

• How Suppressing History of Filipino Revolt Paved Way for Viet Nam and Iraqi Wars by Sherwood Ross
  

• Another Bright Inauguration Memory: Peter Seeger singing Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Our Land.”
  

• Harvard Square Observer: A Violent Society by Ernest Cassara
  

January 2009

• Book Review: A Mercy
  

• In Praise of Vanity Fair: A Pictorial
  

December 2008

• Children of a Spiteful God: Proposition 8 Repeals California Gay Marriage by John R. Guthrie
  

• The Center for Inquiry Speaks Up for Science Before Embattled Texas State Board of Education
  

• Forget Red vs. Blue -- It's the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda by Chris Hedges
  

• PICTORIAL: Photos from around the world gage reaction to Obama victory
  

November 2008

• What If??? Obama vs. McCain
  

• Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama by Christopher Buckley
  

• Sarah Palin Protected Against ”All forms of witchcraft.”
  

• Wingnut Email Concerning Barack Obama and Response
  

October 2008

• Tourette’s On The Trolley or Consider What a Saturnalia Should We All Have Coprolalia by John R. Guthrie
  

• Subject: Prayer Request
  

• The United States of England by Sherwood Ross
  

• Excerpt from The Autobiography of God by William Harwood
  

• Why Should Israel Be Surprised by its Own Doubts, Cynicism, and Pessimism? by James Adler
  

September 2008

• China Realities by Robert Louis Chianese
  

• A Small Brief War: Russia’s Georgia Conflict - A Photo Essay by John R. Guthrie
  

August 2008

• Review of The Best American Science Writing 2007 by John R. Guthrie
  

• The Catholic Church versus North American Women by William Harwood
  

• If I Had My Life to Live Over by Erma Bombeck
  

• IN BRIEF - A first novel by Gawaine Caldwater Ross: Death's Angel
  

July 2008

• An Opportunity Worth Noting: Peter Levitt’s Translation Workshop
  

• Was the Hillary Vote Really an Anti-Obama Vote? by William Harwood
  

• Looking Back: Peach Pickers, Stonemasons, and the War on Terror by John R. Guthrie
  

June 2008

• Saving a Last Resort by Katherine Spillar
  

• Blind Speed: A Novel reviewed by John R. Guthrie
  

• Bush Distorts World War II History in Speech to Air Force Graduates by Sherwood Ross
  

May 2008

• ABFFE Joining With Media Coalition in fight Over Indiana Law
  

• A uniform full of medals and decorations clashes with his message. by Matthew DeBord
  

• The Thing They Will Always Carry - or - The Why's and Werefore's of PTSD by Marc Levy
  

• Obama For President by Sherwood Ross
  

• Iraqi Women Under Siege by Marjorie P. Lasky
  

April 2008

• Corregidor, Farewell by John R. Guthrie
  

March 2008

• This Common Secret by Susan Wicklund - Reviewed by John R. Guthrie
  

• Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations
  

• Du’a Khalil Aswad meets the Peacock Angel: A Love Story
  

• How America Can Be a Superpower the World Respects
  

February 2008

• Darwin Day 2008 with a Meeting of Minds
  

• A Witness to Truth (Eulogy for the Reverend James Reeb) by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  

• From: The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
  

• Statement at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings by Barbara Jordan
  

January 2008

• Nicaragua and Venezuela: Articles from Pensa Latina Agency and Mark Weisbrot
  

• Cuba: Articles from Fidel Castro and Will Weissert
  

• It's Not the Sex, It's the Hypocrisy
  

December 2007

• Saudi Woman Sentenced to 200 Lashes for Being Gang-raped
  

• The War on Women by Ernest Cassara
  

• Two Articles on Women's Birth Rights
  

• Book Reviews of Infidel and Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by John R. Guthrie
  

• The Mexican Connection - The Story of a Dental Implant by John R. Guthrie
  

November 2007

• October is the Cruelest Month: the Scorching of Southern California by John R. Guthrie
  

• Book Review: Fear as the Catalyst for a Fascist Shift? by John R. Guthrie
  

• 9/11 Is Over by Thomas L. Friedman
  

• Che's Murderer, Operation Miracle and Cuban Doctors by Salim Lamrani
  

• The “Goat-bearded, Mongoloid-Trotsky, Tubercular Agitator Ho Chi Minh” Redux by John R. Guthrie
  

• 47-year-old Memories of Cuba by Saul Landau
  

• Interview of Col. Larry Wilkerson by Edmundo García
  

• Bush Restricting Travel Right of Over 100,000 U.S. Citizens by Sherwood Ross
  

October 2007

• An Appeal from Planned Parenthood
  

• Nagasaki by David Rovics
  

• Berkeley Revisited by Jerome Richard
  

• 100,000 March Against Iraq War in Washington
  

• RX for Disaster: Sleepless in Iraq by Marc Levy
  

• An Interview With Herb Silverman re the Secular Coalition for America
  

• Three Book Reviews by John R. Guthrie
  

September 2007

• One Open Letter to Senator Larry Craig and One Comment by Rabbi Arthur Waskow
  

• In Brief: Three Worthwhile Books and a Review of The 11th Hour
  

• Bush Gets Away with Lies, Lies and More Lies in History-Illiterate America by Larry Beinhart
  

August 2007

• Of Acorns and Angel Oaks: The Case for Accessible Abortion by John R. Guthrie
  

• US Has Most Prisoners in World Due to Tough Laws by James Vicini
  

• Franz Jägerstätter (1907-9 August, 1943)
  

• Bottled Insanity by Michael I. Niman
  

• In Brief: Three Worthwhile Books and Moore's Film "Sicko"
  

• God and Country by Charles Marsh
  

• From the New York Times - Editorial: Muzzling Those Pesky Scientists
  

• Hypocrite of the Month
  

July 2007

• Rally for Reason (May 28, 2007) outside of the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum Opening in Boone County, Kentucky - Opening Remarks by Master of Ceremonies Herb Silverman
  

• A Brief Military History and Civilian Guide to Arlington National Cemetery - Iraq Dead Ahead by Marc Levy
  

• In Brief: Quotes from the founders on religion; 10-Year Sentence for Teen Sex Thrown Out; and Hate crime in Indiana?
  

• Books: A 21st Century Rationalist in Medieval American: Essays on Religion, Science, Morality and the Bush Administration and Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War
  

• Cuba: Why Cuba Is Exporting Health Care to the US and Cuba celebrates with almost 25% of territory forest covered
  

• Bush “Preventive War” Doctrine Glaring Failure in Middle East by Sherwood Ross
  

June 2007

• In Brief: Remembering Reverend Falwell and Christian Luddites Block Cancer Vaccine
  

• Cooking with Rice by Jeffrey Crafts
  

• A Momentary Glimpse into Daily Life in Iraq: Massacre at Va Tech by Sherwood Ross
  

• Bush, Gershwin, and Empire by Ernest Cassara
  

• Requiem for a Field of Lavender by Bonnie Lee Black
  

May 2007

• Rabbi Arthur Waskow; Commentary and an Invitation
  

• A Study in Needless Tragedies
  

• Remember When Our Leader Said
  

• Charge: Pentagon Cheats Iraqi Veterans Out of Medical Care and Disability Pay by Sherwood Ross
  

• Fetish of Force by Scott MacFarlane
  

• Veterans' Voices Trigger Response by Marc Levy
  

• From: Positive Atheism's Big List of Mark Twain Quotations
  

• A Mother's Day Remembrance by John R. Guthrie
  

• In Brief: A Quote, Two Pictures, and a Plea
  

April 2007

• IN BRIEF: War Protest March - Political Children - What Does Iran Look Like? - World’s Warmest Recorded Winter
  

• Three Books of Note
  

• Congressman Holds No God-Belief
  

• They Kept On Walking by David Rovics
  

• The First Lady vs. Reality by Yanar Mohammed
  

March 2007

• IN BRIEF: Three Books of Note and Religion, Your Doctor, and You
  

• THE BRIGHT REVOLUTION: Atheists are people, too by Will Moredock
  

• Sherwood Ross: George Bush vs. Gospel of Matthew
  

• Visit to an Island Nation, Part II: England's Green and Pleasant Land by Kelpie Wilson
  

• PRESIDENT BUSH TO RECIEVE CHICKASAW PLUM AWARD
  

February 2007

• Death to Ehren Watada
  

• The Chickasaw Plum’s Plan for Iraq
  

• IN BRIEF: Jackson Nathaniel Cline  -  Request For Papers  -  Witch Fights Christian Town  -  More Christian Charity  -  Collateral Damage
  

• The End Times and the Sorry State of Christian Prophecy
  

• Visit to an Island Nation, Part I: Coming Home to Scotland
  

• Shafting the Vets
  

• Torture, Lies, and Videotape
  

• Two Books of Note
  

January 2007

• Sadam from The Independent UK
  

• The Family Un-Planner
  

• Revisiting Abu Ghraib
  

• IN BRIEF: Jimmy Carter & RELIGION: Child Sex-Abuse
  

• Fresno Preacher Arrested in Alleged Murder Plot
  

• Two Books of Note
  

• An Interview with Gore Vidal
  

December 2006

• Rosh Hashanah Sermon by Herb Silverman
  

• Tim House’s Holiday Story
  

• Feliz Navidad by Ed Taylor
  

• Tapes Reveal LBJ's Vietnam Conversations
  

• Speaking of Varieties of Religious Experience
  

• Two Books of Note
  

November 2006

• The Chickasaw Plum Visits St. Andrews Abbey
  

• A Classy Act: Dozens of Amish Mourn Schoolhouse Killer
  

• DOES THE GOP SUCKER EVANGELICALS? (Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear go potty in the woods?)
  

• Tuesday, October 17th; A Day of Mourning as America's Population Hits 300 Million
  

• TWO MOVIES OF NOTE
  

• Blair Devastated as Army Chief Savages His Approach to Iraq
  

• Army Times: "Time for Rumsfeld to go"
  

October 2006

• RC Church Condemns Abortion for Raped Colombian 11-Year-Old
  

• Bush is Not the Devil, Says Progeso Weekly’s Columnist Alvaro F. Fernandez
  

• Recounting a Fallen Marine's Last Days  by John Fenton
  

• A Letter From Senator  Feinstein
  

• Are We Really So Fearful?  by Ariel Dorfman
  

September 2006

• Good News From California
  

• Lies of the Christian Right, #1
  

• Look no further, Demosthenes; Check out Lt. Ehren Watada, US Army
  

• THE OTHER 9.11  -  Why is the US Arguably the most Hated country in the world?
  

• Paradise - From a Song Written by Blue Grass Vocalist and Musician John Prine
  

• Remembrance: Photographer and Manhattan resident Joan Liftin On 9.11.01
  

• When Man Mated Monkey
  

• Harvard Square Observer: Why They Hate Us
  

August 2006

• Final Arguments Offered in Yates Trial
  

• Gibson's Newest "Lethal Weapon"
  

• Moving Violations
  

• A Primer on the Whys and Wherefores of PTSD
  

• Town's Past Forever Undermines Its Future
  

July 2006

• Ernest Cassara on Iran: The Media Suckered
  

• In Brief: Maliki's Master Plan,  An Inconvenient Truth: A Remarkable Film,  and Those Elusive WMD's: More Spin, More Lies
  

• A Valuable Article by Julie F. Kay
  

• Support War Resistors
  

• Will the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Ride in on Red Cows from Mississippi?
  

June 2006

• FBI Targets School of the Americas Watch
  

• In Canada, Flashback to the 70's - from an article by Thomas Alex Tizon
  

• Iraqi Women Speak - "No One Knows What We Are Going Through" from an article by Natasha Walter
  

• Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright(er) - Good News from China...
  

• Two Exceptional Novels in Brief
  

• The War on Sex - from an article by Christina Page
  

May 2006

• Christians Sue for Right to be Dickheads
  

• CIA Warned Bush of No Weapons in Iraq
  

• An Essay on our President by E.L Doctorow
  

• How Many Deaths Until Congress Knows?
  

• Jesus Big on Church-State Separation
  

• Report from Code Pink on the Status of Iraqi Women
  

April 2006

• The War on Women by Ernest Cassara
  

• Three Articles on Planned Parenthood and Abortion
  

• Four Articles and a Photo Array on the War in Iraq
  

• Five Articles on Cuba and the World
  

March 2006

• Katrina Redux
  

• More from the Mailbag
  

• News Briefs
  

• Op-Ed: Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Ex-Gay Cowboys
  

February 2006

• Conspiracy to Torture
  

• Rep. John Murtha: I Wouldn't Join the Military Now
  

• The Poet and Writer Marc Levy
  

• Herb Silverman Offers Reward: There is no God in the Constitution
  

• The Torture Administration
  

January 2006

• Quotes and Perspective on Another American War, Vietnam
  

• Shaking the Foundation of Faith
  

• The Top Ten Reasons for Staying in (Leaving) Iraq
  

• Zuchinni and Peach
  

December 2005

• THE CORPORAL AND THE CONGRESSMAN: A Story of Death and Dishonor
  

• HERB SILVERMEN CARRIES THE DAY: The Oxford Union Debate
  

November 2005

• Confederacy of Liars
  

• Confessions of a Marine
  

• Courthouse Jackboots
  

• November in History: The Greensboro Massacre 26 Years Later
  

• Words are Pimped Out to Turn Tricks for the Trade: Musings on War and Writing
  

• Photo Essay on Iraq
  

October 2005

• Marine Lance Cpl. Chase Johnson Comley: Two Aunts Speak of his Death
  

• The God Who Wasn't There
  

• In the "Is Anybody Surprised? Category"
  

• What Every Vietnam Vet Should Tell Every Army Recruiter in the USA
  

• ¡Viva México!
  

September 2005

• ANOTHER BADGE OF SHAME FOR GEORGE W. BUSH: An Honorable Marine Killed in a Dishonorable War
  

• Bereaved Young Mom in Conservative Simi Valley Organizes Vigil
  

• The Costs of War in the Modern World
  

August 2005

• HPV Vaccine Poised to Help Eradicate Cervical Cancer: The Christian Right Supports Fear of Cervical Cancer as Part of God’s Plan for Your Daughter
  

• WHAT DOES A SECULAR HUMANIST BELIEVE?
  

July 2005

• ALAS, BABYLON: A Southern Baptist Attends the Los Angeles Gay Pride Festival and Parade
  

June 2005

• Bad News: Korea (That’s right. Korea!) Strides Past U.S. in Stem Cell Research
  

• THE COST OF WAR: It’s Not Over When the Peace Treaty’s Signed
  

• GOOD NEWS: Pentagon Assures World: No Poopy Holy Book in Gitmo
  

• Book Review:  XXX: 30 PORN-STAR PORTRAITS
  

May 2005

• Evolution and the Public Schools
  

• A Book Review of Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
  

April 2005

• IN MEMORIAM: Robert Creeley
  

• On Sherman J. Alexie, Jr. by John R. Guthrie
  

• From Matt Welch’s “The  Pentagon's Secret Stash”
  

• Positive Atheism by Herb Silverman
  

March 2005

• BELIEFS: A Civil Rights Martyr Remembered by Gustav Niebuhr
  

• Lest We Forget  -  In Memory of Rev. James Reeb
  

• Takin' It to the Streets by Bill Davis
  

• Will Canada Beckon Again? A Return to the Military Draft
  

February 2005

• Marching Through Boston
  

• Notes On Pablo Neruda
  

• A Classic revisited: John Gardner:  On Becoming a Novelist
  

• According to Pat Buchanan’s “THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE,” American security and Iraqi stability depend on a prompt hand over
  

• We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us: When America Nukes Its Own
  

January 2005

• Bad-Ass Jesus: The Rapture Considered
  

• The Candidate Without a Prayer
  

• Susan Sontag, Author, Activist, National Treasure, Dies at 71
  

December 2004

• Fallujah and the Warsaw Ghetto: The Banality of Evil
  

• Over 16,000 Converge at Fort Benning
  

• Guantanamo Justice
  

• Reader Comments on the Presidential Election
  

• U.S. Intelligence Issue Pessimistic Report on Fallujah Offensive
  

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November 2004

• I Can't Believe That My Government Would Just Lie About That: Conversation With a University Student of Great Promise
  

• Nine Monstrously Untrue Administration Justifications for the War in Iraq
  

• John C. Bonifaz' Book WARRIOR KING: The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush
  

October 2004

• The Endless War by Ernest Cassara
  

• The Fag Candidate:" George W. Bush and the Politics of Sleaze by John R. Guthrie
  

• A Modest Proposal on Iraq by Herb Silverman
  

September 2004

• 9/11: A Different Perspective by John R. Guthrie
  

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