International

White House lets terrorist off hook

April 27, 2007

Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles left jail on April 19 and went to live at his wife’s home in Miami, after an appeals court approved his release on bail. His trial for lying and fraud, relating to...

An Open Letter to the Murderers of Mayor Itoh of Nagasaki

April 20, 2007

On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 you killed a man who was apparently an obstacle to your criminal enterprises. We wonder if you have any idea what you have taken from the world. Mayor Iccho Itoh was...

EDITORIAL: Everybodys talking about the weather

April 20, 2007

This Earth Day, climate scientists are stepping up their dramatic warnings about the dire consequences of global warming. Earlier this month, in the second installment of its four-part report, the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

An embrace of solidarity, from Louisville to Havana

April 20, 2007

Henry Wallace Brigade spotlights Cuba’s quest for equality, LGBT rights and Afro-Cuban empowerment In late December 2006, 26 Kentuckians from the Louisville area traveled to Cuba to learn about the country for themselves and to build...

Crisis of capitalist globalization

April 20, 2007

“The nation-state ... is being squeezed on the one side by the forces of global economics and on the other side by political demands for a more democratic distribution of power reflecting global economic and political...