LETTERS: Free Cuban Five, A must-see, Significant world news, Urgent care for Peltier, Award-winner
Free Cuban Five A must-see Significant world news Urgent care for Peltier Award-winner
Standing firm for Honduras
The coup d’etat carried out against the legally elected president of Honduras on June 28 is meeting with worldwide resistance which is as strong as it is broad. Not a single country around the world is supporting it. The United Nations General Assembly and the Organization of American States have declared emphatically that they do not recognize the coup regime.
Big crises, radical solutions
As the new fiscal year begins, the situation facing states is dire. This was glaringly illustrated when California was forced to issue IOUs for the first time since the Great Depression while it finds a way to close a $26 billion budget gap.
Fantastic response to change
We have gotten some great responses to the announcement last week that the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo is publishing daily online.
McNamara and wars lessons which way do we go now?
On July 6, Neil deGrasse Tyson, head of the Hayden Planetarium, Twittered, “Wondering how many who watched fireworks on July 4 did so because it's fun, forgetting that it commemorates exploding bombs during warfare.” That same day, Robert S. McNamara, the former defense secretary, died at 93. He was second only to President Lyndon Baines Johnson as the most hated figure of the Vietnam War era.
Is the economic crisis over?
Beware of talk of better economic times around the corner. We may be over the worst of it; we may have avoided a 1930s-type depression; but it’s quite another thing to suggest that we are on the road to recovery.
An end to violence
Against the background of the bloodiest century in human history and this decade of war, genocide, boycotts, and threats and counter threats, thanks in large measure to the Bush administration and, in a larger sense, our own imperialism, humanity is seeking a new world order in which peace and justice are its organizing principles.
LETTERS: Horror in the desert, Capitalism exposed, A sample of readers comments
Horror in the desert Re: Retraining for what? World supports Zelaya A sample of comments from www.pww.org
EDITORIAL Madoff is just tip of the iceberg
Finance capital went to confession, told the judge its sins, and he administered the penance — 150 years in the clinker for 79-year-old Bernard Madoff.
EDITORIAL Big step backward
The city of New Haven threw out a fire department promotions exam because it yielded results that did not promote equality.
