Will the Hammer go to the slammer?
HOUSTON – A complaint against Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was filed on June 15 with the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct by Texas Democratic Rep. Chris Bell.
Livermore action to urge Books, not bombs
LIVERMORE, Calif. – On the 59th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there will be a peace march to the Livermore nuclear weapons lab.
International notes
Turkey: Mass protest greets NATO meet / Japan: ‘Save antiwar Article 9’ / Norway: Citizen inspectors visit secret U.S. base / Israel: IAEA says ‘end nuclear threat’ / Haiti: Protest former prime minister’s arrest
Canadian voters punish Liberal Party
VANCOUVER, British Co-lumbia – After 13 years of center-right rule, angry voters punished the incumbent Liberal Party on June 28 by giving them a minority government. Not only did the Liberal Party lose 37 seats in Parliament – dropping to 135 – but its popular vote shrank to 37 percent, three points less than four years ago.
Halliburton profits from blood and war
HOUSTON – Protests continue here and around the country over the war profiteering of Halliburton Company and its crony capitalist practices.
