Peace
Let Cuba live! End the U.S. blockade!
July 23, 2004The National Board of the Communist Party USA released the following statement on July 19. Fifty-one years ago this week a small number of Cuban patriots took history into their own hands and led an uprising...
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GI Rights Hotline answers soldiers calls
July 23, 2004The reality of war has the phones ringing. As the death toll of U.S. forces since the start of the war rose to 900 this week, and the Bush administration’s rationale for war lies shredded by...
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Senate report: Iraq intelligence was wrong
July 16, 2004Although 20 percent of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s final report on Iraq remains secret, what was released July 9 sheds the cold light of day on the Bush administration’s intelligence used to support its first-strike policy...
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New policies on Cuba create backlash
July 15, 2004New regulations affecting Cuban Americans who go to Cuba to visit family there have backfired. The Bush administration is facing both divisions within the U.S. Cuban community and opposition in Congress. In early May, a Bush-appointed...
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Cold numbers show heavy price of Iraq war
July 15, 2004Nearly 900 U.S. troops killed, more than 16,000 ill and injured. Some 9,000-11,000 Iraqis killed and an estimated 40,000 injured. The bill to U.S. taxpayers: $151 billion and counting.
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