Puerto Ricans uneasy as schools, agencies reopen
While 100,000 public sector workers went back to work in Puerto Rico May 15 and 500,000 pupils returned to finish the last two weeks of school, Puerto Ricans have lost faith in the colonialist politicians, polls show.
Growing movement assails Bush torture policy
WASHINGTON — Two years after photographs exposed U.S. military personnel engaged in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, demands are rising that President Bush be held accountable for criminal abuses at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and secret CIA or Pentagon prisons around the world.
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YCL sets tone in convention program Students protest high gas prices Bush’s ‘punk ass crusade’
Phone snooping stirs outrage
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush is toiling to reassure millions of ordinary folks that his National Security Agency spies are not listening in on their phone calls.
Palestine film festival in Chicago
Seven films focusing on the Palestinian experience, presented along with some of the directors, make up the 5th Annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival (CPFF) at the Gene Siskel Film Center May 6-24.
MovieREVIEW Take a broader look Kekexili: Mountain Patrol
Take a broader look at your world by going into the mountains with a ragtag patrol of Tibetan park rangers. Climb to a plain four miles high where the oxygen barely exists, the mountains threaten to crush you with their grotesque beauty, the very earth betrays, and the night stars drip down into you.
BOOKREVIEW: Building an empire with religion, oil and debt
Author Kevin Phillips is back again with his “American Theocracy,” an especially informative historical, political and economic analysis of what he believes are the three major perils facing the U.S. today: “Reckless dependency on shrinking oil supplies, a milieu of radicalized (and much too influential) religion, and a reliance on borrowed money — debt in its ballooning size and multiple domestic and international deficits.”
Just one minute
Just imagine, in one little minute you could have earned your whole year’s wages and then some, and had the rest of the year off to spend it. Crazy? Oh no!
Join a new mothers revolution
On Mother’s Day — the highly commercialized U.S. corporate version, not the antiwar vision of Juliet Ward Howe — we are bombarded with paeans about how worshipped, respected and revered Motherhood is in this country. A new book, “The Motherhood Manifesto,” and a new movement, Momsrising, tell us that this isn’t so in the real-life world of working mothers and their families.
EDITORIAL: A hyena in charge of the jackals' den?
Democracy-minded Americans have long had ample reason to be concerned about the activities of the CIA and the broader intelligence community of which it is a part. Those concerns have taken a new turn with the Bush administration’s nomination of Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to be the spy agency’s next director.EDITORIAL:
