Peace
JCP leader to Obama: Yes we can — have a nuclear weapons-free world
May 15, 2009Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on April 28 met Jim Zumwalt, charge d'affaires ad interim in U.S. Embassy Tokyo and handed him a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama calling on him to take the...
Read morePete Seeger at 90: Time to nominate him for the Nobel Prize
May 7, 2009No one counted noses but it is fair to estimate that millions joined in the “For Pete’s Sake, Sing” celebrations of Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday Sunday May 3. The birthday parties ranged from a sold-out concert...
Read morePicking up the pieces after catastrophe in Iraq, the ‘cradle of civilization’
May 7, 2009Iraqi scientists join forces with Americans to save antiquities CHICAGO — The world cried in the spring of 2003, during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But perhaps archaeologists cried the hardest.
Read moreAfghan war vet tells Congress rethink sending troops there
April 24, 2009WASHINGTON -- Afghan war veteran and retired Marine Corporal Rick Reyes testified before U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on his opposition on the war in Afghanistan. Reyes served as part of the first deployment to...
Read moreImage-stories told of Spanish Civil War refugees
April 23, 2009The United Nations has described the twentieth century as the century of the refugee. Wars, revolutions, decolonization and economic globalization have uprooted and displaced millions of people worldwide. The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) caused a refugee...
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