Far-right party joins Israeli Cabinet
The Israeli Cabinet voted overwhelmingly Oct. 30 to bring the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party into the government. Only Labor Party minister Ophir Pines-Paz opposed Yisrael Beiteinu’s inclusion. The decision gives Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s coalition a commanding parliamentary majority of 78 out of 120 seats
California challengers say Make it right in America
Campaigning around California last week, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides sharply criticized Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for his close ties with giant corporate interests, and continued to stress working-class families’ need for greater access to health care and higher education.
NAACP forum hears dangers of media consolidation
OAKLAND, Calif. — If media ownership rules are changed to allow even more consolidation, already poor coverage of issues important to racial and ethnic minorities and working-class communities could get much worse, with severe consequences for democracy, speakers warned at an Oct. 27 town hall meeting sponsored by the California NAACP as part of its state convention.
Bilateral negotiations with North Korea are a necessity
In the aftermath of the Oct. 9 nuclear test by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), many in the region and around the world now worry about the acceleration of nuclear proliferation and the threat to peaceful coexistence in Northeast Asia. The greatest threat is a nuclear showdown with the United States.
Fund drive traveling in the Pacific Northwest
SEQUIM, Wash. — My wife Joyce and I traveled 900 miles in Washington and Oregon earlier this month, raising funds for the 2006 PWW fund drive.
FBI destroyed files on anti-Cuba terrorist
This very week it is possible that Luis Posada Carriles will be freed to walk the streets of the United States. The former CIA agent, wanted for terrorism in several countries, will be released basically because the Bush administration refuses to officially classify him as a terrorist.
The American Eagle
poem
Two provocative movies
Reviews of Gabriel Range's bold and controversial “D.O.A.P” and Spike Lee’s compelling and moving “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.”
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