Canada: Can we block Harper's 'Social Conservative' gamble?
THE WORD AMONG government circles is that Stephen Harper's handlers are determined that he 'not be another Joe Clark.'
An Australian viewpoint: What a week that was
The outcome of the US elections, the victory of the Sandinistas in the Nicaraguan elections and the overwhelming support for the Cuban resolution in the UN General Assembly opposing the US blockade of Cuba add up to a week up to significant developments in the world-wide struggle against the policies of the Bush administration and other reactionary governments.
A Strategy for Healthcare-NOW
“The Time is Now,” said Congressman John Conyers to the Healthcare-NOW national strategy meeting yesterday in Chicago. Conyers and 60 Healthcare-NOW organizers from 16 states joined in thinking about how to push forward for a single-payer national healthcare system in the United States in a marathon 10 hour strategy session.
'Let's Take America Back,' Says Civil Libertarian
'Since 9/11 we have betrayed our values; we've betrayed our Constitution,' Michael J. Steinberg, legal director of the ACLU of Michigan, told a gathering at the University of Detroit-Mercy Monday.
How to Wash Your Car and Save the Planet
Few people realize that washing our cars in our driveways is one of the most environmentally un-friendly chores we can do around the house. Unlike household waste water that enters sewers or septic systems and undergoes treatment before it is discharged into the environment, what runs off from your car goes right into storm drains.
Revoking Visa of Muslim Scholar Part of Broader Assault against Freedom
Revoking the visa of Swiss-Egyptian scholar Tariq Ramadan is emblematic of President Bush’s efforts to chill intellectual freedom and deny Americans their First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
Army moves forward with court martial of Lt. Ehren Watada
Lt. Watada is to be court martialed for missing movement (article 87 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice) and multiple counts of “Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman” for his public opposition to the illegal and immoral occupation war in Iraq.
Hearings Begin On Bush’s Nuclear Plans
“The product is a nuclear bomb. They kill people like you and me,” Allison Peeler, a college-age volunteer with Carolina Peace, said, crying during an impassioned speech here at a public hearing on Bush’s plans for a new plutonium pits plant.
Lame-duck Republican may doom Bolton as UN Ambassador
What a difference a day makes! Or to be more accurate, three days.
The overwhelming victory on November 7 by the Democratic party in capturing majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate left media commentators pondering how soon the aftershocks would hit Washington. We may now have the answer, from a surprising source: A lame-duck Republican legislator.
Throwing Stuff Over the White House Fence
On Wednesday, Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright, Lennox Yearwood, and about 50 other activists for peace met up on the sidewalk in front of the White House. I brought along a box containing 6,000-some pages of names and comments: about 80,000 names with cities and states, about half of them with comments beside them.
