Opinion

                
  • With Obama election, Fido asks: Can I get a bone?

    With Obama election, Fido asks: Can I get a bone?

    November 13, 2008

    Hi all, I'm Fido, a friendly mutt from Chi-town. First things first: I wanna give a big bark out to all my dawgs up in the Animal Care and Control facility — they can't keep us...

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  • Israel and the current capitalist crisis

    Israel and the current capitalist crisis

    November 13, 2008

    The financial crisis does not skip over Israel. The country that has been integrating itself in global capitalist markets in the last few decades is once again seeing the ugliest side of capitalism, as the stock...

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  • Iraqi Communists: Pact with U.S. must be amended, or well be the first to reject it

    Iraqi Communists: Pact with U.S. must be amended, or well be the first to reject it

    November 12, 2008

    The latest version of the Iraq-U.S. agreement is “unacceptable” and must be changed to “secure for the Iraqis their legitimate national rights,” the leader of the Iraqi Communist Party told a public meeting of 1,000 people...

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  • Latin Americas new consensus

    Latin Americas new consensus

    November 7, 2008

    When the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz said the great tragedy of Mexico was that it was so far from God and so close to the United States, the comment summed up the long and tortured relationship...

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  • Letters – November 8, 2008

    Letters – November 8, 2008

    November 7, 2008

    A night to remember Last night, among a couple thousand union reps, Dems, and a cross-section of our state, I watched our governor, Tim Kaine, newly elected junior Sen. Mark Warner, Sen. Jim Webb and Doris...

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