Peace
Bush administration targets Cuban churches
August 18, 2006Church leaders the world over have objected to a misleading reference to the Cuban Council of Churches that appeared in the July 10 report from the President Bush’s “Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba.” The...
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Spotlight reveals Bechtels nuclear tentacles
August 18, 2006SAN FRANCISCO — Demonstrators around the country aimed a spotlight at one of the biggest U.S. corporations on Aug. 9, and what it revealed wasn’t a pretty sight. On the 61st anniversary of the U.S. atomic...
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Cease-fire greeted warily in Lebanon
August 18, 2006News AnalysisWriting from Lebanon’s capital on the eve of the UN Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 1701, which calls for a cessation of hostilities in Lebanon and Israel, Judith Le Blanc, co-chair of United for Peace...
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Veterans denounce Iraq war at U.S.-Canada Peace Arch
August 18, 2006U.S. vets say they were ‘betrayed and lied to’ by Bush administration PEACE ARCH, U.S.-Canada Border — U.S. and Canadian war protesters gathered here Aug. 13 to applaud U.S. soldiers who fled to Canada to avoid...
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Maryann Mahaffey, peoples champion, 81
August 11, 2006The people of Detroit are mourning the death of City Council President Maryann Mahaffey, who for 31 years, until illness forced her retirement from office last December, was a selfless fighter for labor’s rights, peace, equality...
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