Letters - April 26, 2008
Rebuff ‘gotcha’ politics Teach your children well May 1 greetings Knowing Debs
May Day 2008
Workers of the world unite! That visionary call, issued 160 years ago, is being answered today in new and powerful ways.
Worldnotes - April 26, 2008
Egypt: Protest food shortages Brazil: Continent-wide defense proposed Nepal: Maoists win election victory Italy: Rightist back in power Iraq: Short term oil pacts OK’d
Letters - April 12, 2008
Cuba myths Musharraf Cyprus ‘Shock Doctrine’ More on Tibet
McCains Iraq Kool-Aid
Sen. John McCain reminds us of the cowboy pilot in the 1964 Stanley Kubrick movie (“Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”), who jumped on a nuclear warhead and rode it whooping and hollering as it plummeted to doom.
Cuba innovates
For Mariela Castro, interviewed recently in Italy, Cuba is “a country in revolution, in constant change.” The daughter of Cuba’s former president and head of the National Institute for Sex Education added, “Space exists to discuss and make proposals within the framework of socialism.”
Torture memo fuels calls to close Guantanamo
Advocates for hundreds of detainees in George W. Bush’s “war on terror,” many held for years without criminal charges, are escalating their demands for fair trials or release of the prisoners and for closing Guantanamo and secret CIA prisons elsewhere.
Letters - April 5, 2008
Not the jobs we wanted The ‘people’s surge’ Protect our youth from recruiters Tibet Flying is scary Great reading Nonviolence is the way Dirty campaigns Help free the innocent
