Hurricane Katrina: Bush's Day of Reckoning
I had never visited a city ravaged by war, but as I drove across the Mississippi Bridge into the heart of this devastated city with People’s Weekly World reporter Tim Wheeler last week, I felt that I was in a war zone. Debris filled the streets and a dreadful stench filled the air.
Movie Review: A History of Violence
David Cronenberg's classy new film moves the director back into the mainstream to present a critical commentary of a cinematic history that has been largely determined by Hollywood's version of the American Dream.
Group Denounces Bush Failures on Darfur Violence
Continuing attacks by paramilitary forces aligned with the Sudanese National Islamic Front (NIF) regime on refugees and other non-combatants in Darfur indicates that despite agreements peace has not come to the southern region of the Sudan.
Latinos for Peace March in Washington
On September 24 over 500,000 people demonstrated against the war in Iraq throuhout our nation, 300,000 and more in Washington DC and tens of thousands in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
In Support of Weakness on National Security
A senior staff person for one of the most progressive and courageous members of Congress recently advised a room full of peace activists that they won't be able to persuade Democrats to oppose the war simply by showing them polls finding that a majority of Americans oppose the war. Rather they must assuage the Democrats' fears of being called 'weak on national security.'
Stupid Republicans in Recent News
We provide a list here of the top Republican criminals, ethics violators, failures as leaders, and just plain stupid. Enjoy or throw up, whichever....
Bush Administration Illegally Undermines Free Press
While the Bush administration has consistently accused democratically elected President Hugo Chávez of 'weakening democratic institutions' such as a free media in Venezuela, an audit released last week by the bi-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows that Bush administration's policy of paying media personalities to promote its programs was 'covert propaganda' and illegal.
Japan’s Constitution and the Separation of Church and State
There was a fascinating story from Japan yesterday. A Japanese court, the Osaka High Court, ruled against Prime Minister Koizumi’s visit to a religious shrine celebrating the Japanese soldiers who fought and died in World War II.
