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Bush maneuvers on wiretaps

January 26, 2007

NewsAnalysis The Bush administration, in a letter last week from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to Congress, seemed to back away from its assertion that it has the right to spy on phone conversations of anybody in...

The State of the Union changing direction: Imperial presidency under fire

January 26, 2007

News Analysis The concerns of most Americans who find it harder and harder to make ends meet, and who want to bring our troops home from Iraq, were ignored by George W. Bush in his State...

Groups oppose Bushs anti-immigrant drive

January 19, 2007

NewsAnalysisNow that the Democratic majority 110th Congress is seated, the immigrant rights movement has an opportunity to move forward on several fronts. In the first half of 2006, millions of undocumented immigrants and their allies marched...

Yugoslavia past, present and future

January 17, 2007

When the term “balkanization” is used, it has long meant to break a territory or a region up into hostile, unmanageable parts. The Balkans have long been portrayed in imperialist ideology as a region filled with...

Venezuelans contemplate unitary party of the left

January 12, 2007

NewsAnalysis After a resounding re-election victory on Dec. 3, in which leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias defeated his right-wing opponent by 63 percent to 37 percent, Chavez has called for the consolidation of all political...