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Campaign to free Cuban 5 presses forward
September 15, 2006News AnalysisThe legal struggle for the freedom of the Cuban Five continues, despite a recent adverse appeals court ruling. Defense lawyer Leonard Weinglass, however, has called for enlarging the political fight. Weinglass is confident that someday...
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Key Senate races could turn on immigrant rights
September 8, 2006NewsAnalysis With precious little else to run on, the GOP has decided to base its midterm election campaign largely on the bogey of “illegal immigration” as a domestic equivalent to Bush’s pro-war and fear propaganda. But...
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Sudanese strive for peace despite U.S. schemes
September 1, 2006NewsAnalysisThe United States may be the world’s only military superpower, but attempts by the Bush administration to get its way in northeastern Africa are meeting with resistance. The latest rebuke to U.S. imperialism is taking place...
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Senator Allens monkeyshines
August 22, 2006Mel Gibson drove drunk and, when stopped by a traffic cop, slurred some anti-Semitic slurs. Some defended him thus: “it was just the liquor talking.” Trouble is, liquor does not talk, but people do, and as...
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Lieberman defeat shows anger with status quo
August 18, 2006NewsAnalysisAn uprising of Democratic voters in Connecticut delivered a stunning victory to peace candidate Ned Lamont over three-term incumbent U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Aug. 8 primary. It was a revolt against the policies of...
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