International – Page 488

Lest we forget Bushs crimes

December 8, 2006 By John Gilman

Just prior to the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration sent out the word, which was echoed by most of the media, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction: nuclear bombs, anthrax and poison gas. They...

EDITORIAL: Human Rights Day

December 8, 2006

Many urgent opportunities for action vie for attention on the eve of International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10. Besides speedily ending the Iraq war, two areas where the new Congress can make major progress are passage...

Eyewitness Venezuela: We saw it all

December 8, 2006

CARACAS, Venezuela — When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez trounced his U.S.-backed opponent to win a second six-year term on Dec. 3, we were there. The alarm went off at 2:45 a.m. It was election day, and...

Colombian political prisoner holds Bush prosecutors at bay

December 6, 2006

An extraordinary trial, remarkable among other things for a novel legal doctrine unveiled by the Bush administration during the course of it, ended as a mistrial Nov. 21 in Washington. The jury could not reach a...

Film exposes deadly war profiteering in Iraq

December 1, 2006

MOVIE REVIEWDirector and producer Robert Greenwald, whose previous films include progressive documentaries such as “Outfoxed” (about Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News) and “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price,” has brought us an extremely important movie with...