Peace
Puerto Ricans and Iraq
June 15, 2007CommentaryAt the beginning of April 2007, people in Puerto Rico saw pictures of Jason Núñez Fernández from the town of Naranjitos on their television screens. The 22-year-old husband and father of two daughters had returned home...
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On U.S. tour, Iraqi unionists reject oil grab
June 15, 2007Labor leaders call for end to occupation SAN FRANCISCO — To judge by most U.S. media, the daily slaughter of Iraqis and the ever-climbing death toll among U.S. occupation forces sum up reality in Iraq. We...
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Benchmark No. 1: Privatizing Iraqs oil for U.S. companies
June 8, 2007On May 24, the U.S. Congress voted to continue the war in Iraq. The members called it “supporting the troops.” I call it stealing Iraq’s oil — the second largest reserves in the world. The “benchmark,”...
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EDITORIAL: Cold War, reloaded
June 8, 2007The Bush administration’s planned anti-missile complex in eastern Europe and its joint development of an anti-missile system with Japan are raising the specter of a new Cold War with far-reaching consequences for global political stability. Russian...
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EDITORIAL: 40 years later
June 8, 2007When Israeli Communist Meir Vilner co-signed Israel’s Independence Charter on May 14, 1948, he, and the Jewish/Arab Palestine Communist Party he was representing, stressed the promise contained within the charter: to help implement the United Nations...
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