Bush authorized leak of intelligence data on Iraq, says new court filing in CIA leak case
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney’s former top aide told prosecutors President Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed by prosecutors in the CIA leak case.
As elections loom, Venezuelas Opposition wont commit to participation
Last Thursday the New York Times ran a remarkable profile of the Venezuelan opposition. Titled “Rifts Plague Anti-Chavez Venezuelans,” Times reporter Juan Forero details the chaos that marks Venezuelan opposition parties in the run-up to the this year’s presidential elections.
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Seven months after Katrina: Tales of lunacy and hope from New Orleans
In New Orleans, seven months after Katrina, senior citizens are living in their cars. WWL-TV introduced us to Korean War veteran Paul Morris, 74, and his wife Yvonne, 66. They have been sleeping in their two-door sedan since January. They have been waiting that long for FEMA contractors to unlock the 240-square-foot trailer in their yard and connect the power so they can sleep inside it in front of their devastated home.
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Dick Cheney stomped into the Oval Office. He looked glum. Well, glummer than usual.
April 10 brings immigrant rights to reps doorsteps
Millions of demonstrators across the country have taken the immigrant rights debate beyond the Washington, D.C., Beltway and right-wing talk shows. They have opened the way towards winning majority support for the issue in the overall struggle against the ultra-right.
Paul Robeson: The tallest tree in our forest
OAKLAND — Fifty years ago, when legendary civil rights and peace leader, athlete and artist Paul Robeson was being hounded by McCarthy-era witch-hunting committees, deprived of his livelihood and his right to travel, few would have guessed that soon after the turn of the century, Robeson’s fame would be carried throughout the nation by a beautiful 37-cent postage stamp bearing his portrait and calling him “an incomparable artist and singer, human rights advocate, scholar and athlete, defender of Black freedom.”
THIS WEEK IN LABOR
Delphi strike looms; Students sit-in for janitors; Teachers give F to testing obsession; Teachers not bombs; ‘Criminally negligent’; Bus drivers get on board for HR 676
