National
U.S. stonewalling on extraditing anti-Cuba terrorist
April 5, 2006There is much that is remarkable about Luis Posada Carriles — accused airplane bomber, wrecker of hotels, murderer, and would-be assassin of Fidel Castro. Even after 11 months in U.S custody, however, the only charge against...
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Latin America hears the message: Close the School of the Americas!
April 5, 2006According to its leading U.S. critic, the School of the Americas (SOA) has trained thousands of Latin American soldiers who have been instrumental in the killings, disappearances and massacres that have afflicted the region for decades....
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Janitors, students force U of Miami to talk
March 31, 2006MIAMI — The University of Miami main campus saw action March 28 that would have been unimaginable a few short weeks ago. More than 300 janitors, students, faculty and community supporters stopped traffic on South Dixie...
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True to its history, FBI still violating civil liberties
March 31, 2006According to a report just released by the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation violated procedures for wiretapping and other methods of obtaining intelligence more than 100 times in the last two years. The department’s...
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A referendum on the Bush agenda
March 31, 2006On the color-coded 2004 election maps, New York was blue — not a big surprise. Yet many “red” areas dot the state’s political maps, including nine Republican congressional districts, the Statehouse (held by three-term Republican Gov....
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