Iraq okays UN terms, Bush pushes war
Iraq has accepted a United Nations Security Council Resolution giving weapons inspectors sweeping new rights but allows many pretexts for the Bush administration to provoke a war. The resolution warns Iraq of “serious consequences” if it doesn’t comply – and the White House has made clear that anything it defines as a material breach will almost certainly mean a new war.
Peoples campaign is a winning strategy
News Analysis TUCSON – A model peoples’ campaign in Southern Arizona swept Raul Grijalva into Congress and helped elect Democrats Janet Napolitano as governor and Terry Goddard as attorney general.
Exiles from a Future Time
Book Review Exiles from a Future Time New book on our cultural tradition
More election successes for Czech communists
PRAGUE – The Czech Communists won an extra 1,300 seats in the Nov. 1 elections to village, town and city councils, party vice-chair Zuzka Rujbrova announced last week. She said the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (CPBM) was one of the few parliamentary parties to improve its position and it had also 'significantly strengthened its position' in the biggest towns.
Chilean communists hold 22nd Congress
The following is based on a story from the Communist Party of Chile’s newspaper, El Siglo.
New trial sought for Cuban five
In a phone press conference, Nov. 12, Leonard Weinglass, attorney for Cuban Five defendant Antonio Guerrero, announced that he filed a motion in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida seeking a new trial. Weinglass expressed optimism that the motion would lead to the eventual release of all of the Five.
Green campaign for Pa. governor led the way on issues
Michael Morrill, Green Party candidate for Pennsylvania governor, made a difference in the Nov. 5 election although he received only 1 percent of the vote. Morrill won 38,080 votes in spite of being ignored by the media, having inexperienced organizers, and lacking funds and name recognition.
Tangled roots of anti-Semitism and Zionism
In 1881, anarchists killed the mildly liberal Russian Tsar Alexander II with a well-placed bomb. His brutish son and successor, Alexander III, joined with the most reactionary elements in the Russian ruling class to place the blame for that bombing on the Jews. This marked the beginning of an escalating tendency of European, and especially Russian, ruling elites to use anti-Semitism to deflect the anger of the people.
Juvenile executions a shameful practice
Glen McGinnis was nine years old the first time he was raped by his stepfather. His mother, a crack addict and a prostitute, offered little in the way of parenting. He was beaten with an electrical cord and a baseball bat, and burned with hot grease. When Glen was 17, he shot and killed a laundry attendant and was subsequently executed by the state of Texas.
Memorials and politics
Iron Range retirees had not even had time to uncramp their legs after their three-hour ride home from the historic memorial for Sen. Paul Wellstone and those who so tragically died with him. Williams Arena in Minneapolis was still reverberating from the tears, the cheers and the fighting spirit of this common folks’ tribute to a fallen leader, his wife and life-partner Sheila – a leader in her own right, their daughter Marcia, three campaign aides and two crew members.
