Opinion
EDITORIAL: Happy birthday, Lenin
April 21, 2006More than 60 years ago, the African American poet Langston Hughes wrote, “Lenin walks around the world, Frontiers cannot bar him … Lenin walks around the world, Black, brown and white receive him.”
Read moreEDITORIAL: A decent future for Palestine
April 21, 2006The European Union’s decision to join the U.S. and Canada in halting funding to the Palestinian National Authority is greatly sharpening the ongoing crisis Palestinian people face in the Occupied Territories. Ever since Hamas won elections...
Read moreBush administration wounded, yet more dangerous
April 21, 2006Everybody seems to agree that the Bush administration has lost much of its political support. No longer does it speak with the same authority. But it is not yet on its deathbed. In fact, there is...
Read moreRuin, rubble & race: Lessons on the centennial of the Great San Francisco Earthquake & Fire of 1906
April 21, 2006It’s as if the spotlight that Hurricane Katrina cast on the inequities of disaster relief never happened. San Francisco’s high and mighty are in full-throated self-celebration of the city’s “rising from the ashes” of the April...
Read moreBillionaires For Bush Celebrate Tax Day
April 18, 2006New York, N.Y., Thursday, April 13, 2006 — Dressed to the nines in tuxedos and ball gowns, delighted Billionaires For Bush will gather in cities across the country to say to American taxpayers, “Thank YOU for...
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