Opinion

Zones of conflict: challenge to African unity

September 21, 2007 By Libero Della Piana

There is a new danger plaguing Africa: zones of conflict are expanding into regional wars that take an ever-increasing human toll. In the recent past, Africa was wracked by wars for liberation from colonial rule, coups...

Rethinking Toyota, autoworkers and allies

September 21, 2007 By Jobs with Justice activist

People who own Toyotas are either the moral equivalent of scabs or they are one of the most potentially powerful allies U.S. organized labor has today.

Is Bush planning war on Iran?

September 7, 2007

News Analysis The Sunday Times of London is reporting that the Pentagon has plans for three days of massive air strikes against 1,200 targets in Iran. Last week, Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security...

A look behind the housing crisis

August 31, 2007

Close to a million families lost their homes last year. This year, it will likely be 2 million. There were 25,000 layoffs in the mortgage industry in the first three weeks of August. Building supply and...

Padilla verdict raises troubling questions

August 24, 2007

News Analysis José Padilla, a U.S. citizen and convert to Islam, was convicted by a federal jury in Miami, on Aug 16, on three charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism. The verdict may be...