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Cuba in the news
June 11, 2005Caribbean-wide disaster preparedness At the onset of the 2005 hurricane season, Cuba and other Caribbean nations are laying plans to deal with expected damage and threats to human life. Cuba hosted the 10th meeting of the...
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Exposing the machinery of death
June 10, 2005Book review The Death of Innocents: An eyewitness account of wrongful executions By Sister Helen Prejean Random House, December 2004 Hardcover, 336 pp., $25.95 With expectations rising that Chief Justice William Rehnquist will retire at the...
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Mobilizing to fix the media
June 10, 2005Last month, the media activist group FreePress held the second National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis, Mo. I was fortunate enough to attend along with over 2,000 other media activists from across the country....
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Reflections on the debate in labor
June 10, 2005My Mac is about the size of a soapbox so I thought I would use it as such today (May 29). I just took a look at the home pages for the AFL-CIO and then the...
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Totalitarianism: the big lie
June 10, 2005A recent New York Times article by Roger Cohen echoed 1950. Titled “1945’s Legacy: A Terror Defeated, Another Arrives,” the article asserted that communism and fascism were both “totalitarian” monsters and suggested that communism may have...
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