International
Lest we forget Bushs crimes
December 8, 2006Just 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...
Read moreEDITORIAL: Human Rights Day
December 8, 2006Many 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...
Read moreEyewitness Venezuela: We saw it all
December 8, 2006CARACAS, 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...
Read moreColombian political prisoner holds Bush prosecutors at bay
December 6, 2006An 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...
Read moreFilm exposes deadly war profiteering in Iraq
December 1, 2006MOVIE 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...
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