Opinion

Cuba and dissidents

May 9, 2003

Opinion The recent arrest, trial and sentencing of dissidents in Cuba has been much criticized in the West from the standpoint of human rights and legalities. But I look beyond that to what it tells us...

Budget sideshow jeopardizes families

May 7, 2003

Opinion Have they no decency? The United States Senate on April 11 resembled a circus sideshow, practicing the old shell game of now you see it, now you don’t. While on paper they passed a cut...

An unbalanced budget plan

May 7, 2003

Opinion Farmers and ranchers have not enjoyed the same economic growth and prosperity that many other sectors of American society have experienced in the last decade. Nevertheless, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a plan...

A look at Russias Yeltsin years

May 7, 2003

Post Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era, by Roy Medvedev, Columbia University Press, 394 pp. Like the early 20th century under Vladimir Lenin, the 1990s under Boris Yeltsin was a time of revolutionary change...

Rights for immigrant workers needed now more than ever

May 7, 2003

Opinion Thousands of immigrants are planning a May Day mobilization in Washington, D.C., with a clear message: Rights for immigrant workers now! The national day of action on this international workers’ day is being organized by...