Considering The Israel Lobby
A recent article by two prominent political science professors has touched off heated debate. “The Israel Lobby,” by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard, outlines what it calls “the unmatched power” of pro-Israeli-government lobbying groups in influencing U.S. foreign policy and in controlling debate on U.S.-Israeli relations.
This week in labor
Meat packers win overtime pay; Pride at Work convenes; Strike vote in aluminum; Cintas fined on living wage; N.Y. NEA, AFT merge; Paper workers unite; CLUW opposes right wing health takeaway; Bush zaps energy workers’ pensions; IBEW says ‘Lock’ out privatization
Rank-and-filers demand Employee Free Choice Act
WASHINGTON (PAI) — Bob Boyle was fired April 28 from Oesterling’s Sandblasting Co., just outside Butler, Pa. “I wanted a little better and safer place to work,” said the 17-year veteran of the plant. Boyle and two other men, all fired for trying to organize for the Steelworkers union, described the hostility, lies and obstacles they encountered in their organizing drives during a May 8 lobbying effort by the union here.
WORLDNOTES
Nepal: People celebrate their victory Italy: Strike halts buses Israel: Supreme court denies family reunification Colombia: Gov’t attacks protesters Korea: U.S. mulling peace treaty
Venezuela, Libya to aid African nations
Venezuela and Libya will offer free medical aid and discounted oil to developing countries in Africa, Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalqam said May 18.
Venezuelas revolution reaches across continents
Chavez, Morales cause stir in Europe U.S. patients to get free eye surgery Washington blocks arms sales to Venezuela
Mayoral candidate welcomed on home turf
OAKLAND, Calif. — “Unity in the Community” was the theme as neighbors gathered May 20 at West Oakland’s DeFremery Park to greet former Congressman Ron Dellums in the area where he grew up, and to express their support for his campaign to become the city’s next mayor.
As Ohio goes, so goes the nation?
As everyone knows, Ohio’s vote tipped the scales for George W. Bush in 2004. Many questions were raised at the time about the security and accuracy of that vote. The recent May primary elections in Ohio, in which electronic or optical scan voting machines were in place statewide for the first time, raised many of the same questions.
NATIONALCLIPS
NEW ORLEANS: Nagin re-elected PITTSBURGH: National health care movement adds another sponsor BOSTON: Campus protest greets Rice LAS VEGAS: Unions campaign to save schools, services CHAPEL HILL, N.C.: City Council says ‘Impeach Bush’
