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Write to the Cuban 5

We suggest to our readers that to mark the end of this year, the ninth year in prison for the Cuban Five, you write letters of solidarity to five Cuban men unjustly persecuted for combating U.S....

Cuba and UN together on human rights

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque took the occasion of World Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, to announce that early next year Cuba will sign the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and a...

Running out of gas: peak oil is here

DVD REVIEW A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash Directed by Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack and Reto Caduff Lava Productions, 2007 90 minutes Are believers in “peak oil” a lunatic fringe? Not according to the compelling and...

Demolishing myths about todays Iran

BOOK REVIEW Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran By Fatemeh Keshavarz University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2007 Hardcover, 192 pp., $24.95 As the Bush administration continues to prepare for a possible...

CARTOON: Bad capitalists!