Peace
Bring troops home from Afghanistan
May 20, 2009The U.S. Senate is poised to vote before Memorial Day on funds to continue the Iraq and Afghanistan wars through Sept. 30. The House of Representatives has already approved a supplemental appropriation, but we can still...
Read moreJCP leader to Obama: Yes we can — have a nuclear weapons-free world
May 15, 2009Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on April 28 met Jim Zumwalt, charge d'affaires ad interim in U.S. Embassy Tokyo and handed him a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama calling on him to take the...
Read moreRed Cross says US bombs hit civilians in Afghanistan
May 8, 2009Women and children were among the victims of a US air raid in Afghanistan, the Red Cross have confirmed. The International Committee of the Red Cross reported on Wednesday that its officials had seen women and...
Read morePete Seeger at 90: Time to nominate him for the Nobel Prize
May 7, 2009No one counted noses but it is fair to estimate that millions joined in the “For Pete’s Sake, Sing” celebrations of Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday Sunday May 3. The birthday parties ranged from a sold-out concert...
Read morePicking up the pieces after catastrophe in Iraq, the ‘cradle of civilization’
May 7, 2009Iraqi scientists join forces with Americans to save antiquities CHICAGO — The world cried in the spring of 2003, during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But perhaps archaeologists cried the hardest.
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