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Anti-Wal-Mart film makes nationwide grassroots splash

November 11, 2005

Predicted as the largest ever grassroots-based film release, the documentary “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” is set to open at 7,000 locations around the country Nov. 13-19. Wal-Mart executives, apparently terrified of the new...

Gulf Coast update

November 11, 2005

Shoddy levees may spur legal action Louisiana prosecutors are investigating the failure of the levees around New Orleans to determine if bungled engineering and construction of the flood protection system warrants legal action. Corrupt contractors and...

DeLay whipping up judicial circus

November 11, 2005

HOUSTON — Texas played musical judges in former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s (R-Texas) criminal conspiracy case, as a DeLay-promoted judicial circus unfolded. First in a dizzying rapid-fire change of judges, state district Judge Bob Perkins,...

Lawmakers push for Iraq exit in 2006

November 11, 2005

With George W. Bush increasingly isolated, the antiwar movement this week demanded that Congress act to bring the troops home or face ouster in next year’s congressional elections. Scott Lynch, a spokesman for Peace Action, cited...

Mounting uproar over secret CIA prisons and torture

November 11, 2005

News Analysis Shakespeare’s line, “When troubles come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions,” may well apply to the Bush administration. On top of Iraq and New Orleans and the debacle of Harriet Miers,...