Senate debate on ANWR set
Legislation authorizing drilling for oil in the Alaska Natural Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) will top the Senate calendar when Congress returns from its Easter vacation on April 15. The Republican-controlled House passed its version of a national energy plan in August; drilling in ANWR is a top energy priority of the White House. For the entire article, click on the headline. More information available at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
War or Medicare?
President Bush’s aggressive pursuit of imperialist wars has pushed even the editors of The New York Times to express a sense of outrage about the resulting destruction of Medicare and the rest of the domestic “safety net.”
A rogue White House
A spectre is haunting the world – the spectre of nuclear war.
Editorials
Bush’s war on poor/Support the International Court of Criminal Justice
Jews, Muslims, Christians: Palestine peace
WASHINGTON – Peace and faith organizations – Jewish, Christian and Muslim – alarmed that the Palestinian-Israeli death toll is surging during this high holy season – are calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab lands and creation of a Palestinian state coexisting with Israel.
Dominican community honors Martinez
NEW YORK – On March 17, a coalition of left and progressive organizations of the Dominican community in the Washington Heights neighborhood here gathered to pay homage to the memory of Orlando Martinez. Martinez was a leader of the Communist Party in the Dominican Republic, and major journalistic voice in the struggle against the Balaguer dictatorship. Martinez wrote for newspapers, edited the magazine El nacional and worked on television. He was assassinated March 17, 1975, by agents of the dictatorship.
Editorials
The states’ fiscal crisis/Stop the war here and abroad
