Peace
More calls for Iraq troop pullout
August 4, 2006Key congressional Democratic leaders have called on President Bush to begin pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of this year.
Read moreDespite world outcry, Israel launches ground attack on Lebanon
August 4, 2006Only days after an Israeli bomb smashed into a residential building in the southern Lebanon village of Qana, killing at least 62 civilians, 35 of them children — and provoking worldwide shock, horror and outrage —...
Read moreThe Middle East in crisis
July 28, 2006As I write, Israeli troops are invading Lebanon on its southern border. No doubt this escalation will heighten the danger of a wider war, one that could involve other state and non-state actors in that region...
Read moreIsraelis see their own nation as neighborhood bully
July 28, 2006You can see Lebanon from my sister’s backyard. She and her family and thousands of others in northern Israel live with a constant roar of gunfire — mostly from Israeli cannons aiming to kill Lebanese, occasionally...
Read moreU.S. troops in Paraguay attract attention
July 28, 2006While the Mercosur meetings were going on in Argentina, more than 2,000 people from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, representing 40 labor union and human rights groups, attended the Second Social Forum of the Triple Border in...
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