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No quick fixes

November 12, 2004

Opinion A major tactic of the ultra-right over the last four years was courting the religious right, the “evangelical” crowd, pouring our tax money into both Black and white churches under the pretext that they are...

Letters

November 12, 2004

Cut to the chase The only prisoners being tortured in Cuba are in Guantanamo. Viva Fidel! William BungeMontreal, CanadaReligion column needed In this past election and, through my work in the community, I have met countless...

Editorials

November 12, 2004

Stop new witch-hunt The Internal Revenue Service sent a letter to the NAACP Oct. 8, warning the civil rights organization that it was under investigation for possible violations of its tax-exempt status. The letter complained that...

Fallujah has become like hell

November 12, 2004 By Susan Webb

As 10-15,000 U.S. troops, accompanied by warplanes, tanks, heavy machine guns and cannons, waged a massive assault on Fallujah, a reporter described one residential neighborhood as “a wasteland of shattered glass and rubble, with smoke filling...

Message to Bush: We will never give up!

November 12, 2004

With a note of defiance, leaders of the broad democratic movement vowed a determined fightback against George W. Bush’s extreme right-wing agenda in a second term. While soberly reflecting on the gains of the Republican right...