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Missy Beattie lives in New York City. She's written for National Public Radio and Nashville Life Magazine. An outspoken critic of the Bush Administration and the war in Iraq, she's a member of Gold Star Families for Peace. She completed a novel last year, but since the death of her nephew, Marine Lance Cpl. Chase J. Comley, in Iraq on August 6,'05, she has been writing political articles.
Saturday, December 11, 2010 Friend or Foe? ...the enablers of our insecurity, Bush, Cheney, Obama, and all the neocons, remain at large, living large in plain sight, one touring his fictional memoir...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 The Big Universe The Denver initiative for an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission was overwhelmingly defeated. Earthlings there didn't want to be ridiculed by the rest of the world. Strange, isn't it? Because our reputation couldn't be worse.
Friday, November 26, 2010 So Many Messages (2 comments)
Not unlike voting, petitions are, for the most part, useless. So are phone calls to those elected to represent our interests.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Convicted of Tresspassing? Stupid, Illogical, Absurd!! (1 comments)
The Manhattan criminal trial of Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin, Rev. Patricia Ackerman, and Missy Beattie is over, ending in a "guilty" verdict on the trespassing charge and a "not guilty" on four more serious counts. Yes, we were relieved but a "guilty" on any is absurd because the arrest, itself, was dead wrong. Call it another example of George Bush's post-9/11 reign of terror, aggression, and disregard for civil liberies
Thursday, August 31, 2006 A Circle in a Spiral (3 comments)
The Viet Nam War didn't end when the soldiers came home. They brought their experiences back with them. Tragically, this will be true for troops returning from Iraq.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Counting the Dead (1 comments)
Everyone should read Iraq Body Count at least once a day.
Monday, July 24, 2006 george bush Lowers the Bar (5 comments)
the man is an embarrassment to his species.
Friday, July 21, 2006 No to Stem Cell Research, Yes to War: Bush Religion (3 comments)
This war of choice in Iraq traverses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect-a moral boundary that George Bush regularly crosses with no noticeable twinges to his conscience. Does this president revere life only while its cells are developing?
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Do Not Miss This Movie
This is the true story of the GI Movement for peace that ended the Vietnam War.
Sunday, April 16, 2006 Now, Paula Zahn (4 comments)
Come on, Paula, tell us the real news--2,376 American troop deaths in Iraq, over 17,500 injured, and thousands of Iraqi casualties.
