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Peace Boat visit marks Nagasaki Day in N.Y.
August 17, 2007NEW YORK — Michimasa Hirata was not supposed to be speaking in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on Aug. 9, the 62nd anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. Another atomic bomb survivor was to address the crowd...
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Surge a failure, lawmaker charges
August 17, 2007It looks as though the administration will use a September report by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, to paint a rosy picture of the situation there. Elected leaders and broad sections of...
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Declaring victory over Cuba blockade
August 10, 2007How can we end U.S. assaults on Cuban sovereignty and independence? That question arose during this summer’s trip to Cuba with the IFCO/Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan. Since 1992, the New York-based group has fought the...
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EDITORIAL: Whats needed for Israeli-Palestinian peace?
July 27, 2007Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Jerusalem last week in his new role as envoy for the so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators — the UN, European Union, Russia and the United States. He...
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Cuba survives and inspires
July 27, 2007Forty-five years ago, Bob Dylan described revolutionary Cuba as “a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it.” Some things don’t change. As recently as July 2006, the United States announced it would not “allow” a...
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