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Media coverage of war and peace
March 15, 2002In the second half of the last century the American public has been able to exert decisive blows to the plans of those who involve us in armed conflicts. There is every indication that if the...
Read moreBush threatens use of nuclear weapons
March 15, 2002A story in the March 10 edition of The Los Angeles Times revealed that the Pentagon has drawn up a list of seven countries who are prime targets for U.S. nuclear weapons in the event of...
Read moreAnti-elitists sincere, but poorly organized
March 8, 2002The second annual World Social Forum, held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the end of January, is now over, and the intention is to make it an annual event. Overwhelmingly, participants agree the forum was a...
Read moreMoratorium rally keeps the fire a-burning
March 8, 2002One Thursday night in January, I arrived late to a rally at Chicago’s Hyde Park Community Church, a 100-year-old architectural landmark with its stone and oak benches and oak trim everywhere. There were no seats left,...
Read moreNew York Communist Party: Retry Louimas torturers!
March 8, 2002Last week’s federal appeals court decisions undoing three police officers’ convictions in connection with the 1997 attack on Abner Louima in Brooklyn’s 70th Precinct raised many questions and answered none. There is concern, for example, that...
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