Bolton Vote: White House Withholds Pertinent Information
While Bolton is a poster boy for everything wrong with Bush’s foreign policy, rewarding him with such a sensitive post would indicate approval for the Bush administration’s continuing challenge of the UN’s role as arbiter of international disputes. It mocks the concept of international law and peaceful resolution of conflict.
Challenge to Guantanamo 'Gulag' Continues
Human rights organization, Amnesty International, last week described the Bush administration’s decision to expand the prisons at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as a 'wrong decision.' Amnesty International calls for closing the Guantanamo prisons and for charging the prisoners held there under US laws in US courts or release them.
Film Review: Crass Slipper Fits Cinderella Man
“When our country was on it’s knees, he brought America to his feet.” So is the tagline for Ron Howard’s Depression Era boxing film Cinderella Man starring Russell Crowe. Cinderella Man, the story of 1930’s heavyweight champion James J. Braddock, has been compared to the 2003 film Seabiscuit...In reality, the 1930s was an era of not only poverty but also mass resistance, as strikes swept the south and shut down the cities...
Friedman’s Loose Talk About Iraq: PA's Thomas Riggins Responds to NY Times Op-ed piece on Iraq
It is pretty obvious that Friedman, the Times’ so called expert on foreign affairs, hasn’t a clue as to what is going on over in the middle east-- and neither does anyone else who relies on the Times for his or her information.... He wants to go gung-ho and win the war: “This is no time to give up – this is still winnable....”
Holocaust Education and the Working Class
Holocaust education is important as part of a general program of fighting reactionary and fascist ideology in the United States and the world. Marxists have a valuable role to play in rescuing it from both narrow academicism, that is, research by and for small groups of academic specialists as part of normal careerist work, and the “mass market” Hollywood approach, which uses melodrama to portray horrors without any explanation of fascism and the social classes that supported it...
The “Washington Consensus” and “Beijing Consensus”
None of the 49 countries, identified by the United Nations as the least developed countries (also called the fourth world), has become strong and prosperous with Neo-liberalism approaches such as privatization. Some even became poorer. The global economy is in urgent need of vigorous growth and sound development in reflection on and transcending the conservative Neo-liberalism economic thoughts.
Bolivia On The Boil
THE current political turmoil in Bolivia is part of a wider movement in Latin America, of people rejecting not only corrupt politicians, but also – and more importantly – the neoliberal economic policy paradigm that enriched a few at the expense of the vast majority.
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, 'The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.'
European Union Battle: Euro elite in denial
WHILE most media analysis of the failed European Union summit concentrated on the personal joust between Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac, the most astounding phenomenon was the collective self-delusion over the constitutional treaty.
Sudan: Bush Favors Agenda Over Stopping Genocide
The Bush administration thinks that genocide is less urgent than its foreign policy agenda as it relates to its so-called on war on terror. For some time, we’ve known that the administration is willing to side with dictators and tyrants – some of whom possess WMD and nuclear weapons – to advance its foreign policy.
