contributions

The President’s Greatest Fear
By Doug Soderstrom
22 August, 2005
It has been said that "Love hath no fear" which I believe means that if one is committed to finding the truth, that one wants to understand, wants to know the truth more than anything else in the world, then through such conviction one will find the courage, the fearlessness, to pursue what must be done.
Next to the president’s Crawford, Texas vacation compound Cindy Sheehan has indicated that she will not leave until (…)

by William Norman Grigg August 19, 2005
Is public criticism of the Iraq occupation "treason," as the Bush administration’s most ardent defenders insist?
"There are men walking around the streets tonight who ought to be taken out at sunrise tomorrow and shot for treason," complained former Secretary of War Elihu Root in late 1917. A close adviser to President Woodrow Wilson, Root was infuriated by the fact that some Americans opposed U.S. entry into World War I. Earlier that same year, (…)

Republican Senator Says U.S. Needs Iraq Exit Strategy Now The war has destabilized the Mideast and created a potential Vietnam, Nebraska’s Chuck Hagel says. Other lawmakers express frustration.
By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - As President Bush prepared to hit the road this week to bolster public support for his policies in Iraq, a senior Republican senator said Sunday that the United States needed to craft an exit strategy because its continued presence had created a (…)

A radical cleric has called on his flock to assassinate a South American President recently elected in a democratic election that did not conflict with exit polls.
Pat Robertson acting as the holy see for evangelical extremist associated with his 700 club is promoting the use of assassination to defend Americas oil supply in South America.
The Radical cleric has a long history of support for Bush and his neocon allies, his threat should not be taken as idle talk.
The world will be (…)

The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
by Doug Linder
Sacco and Vanzetti: for a generation of Americans, the names of the two Italian anarchists are forever linked. Questions surrounding their 1921 trial for the murders of a paymaster and his guard bitterly divided a nation. As the two convicted men and their supporters struggled on through appellate courts and clemency petitions to avoid the electric chair, public interest in their case continued to grow. As the end drew near, in August (…)

This is an appeal written by Iraqi Doctors concerning what is happening in western Iraq. It is both extremely informative as well as an important appeal. Operations in many of these areas are ongoing today, despite the fact that this press release is a week old:
DOCTORS FOR IRAQ WARNS OF URGENT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS AS US/IRAQI MILITARY ATTACKS CONTINUE IN THE WEST OF IRAQ
As US/ Iraqi military attacks continue in Haditha, Rawa, Parwana and Heet in the West of Iraq, Doctors for Iraq is (…)

by HAROLD MEYERSON
Breaking up is hard to do. And for an American labor movement currently splitting in two, nowhere more so than in California.
The impact of the secession of three of the AFL-CIO’s four largest unions is particularly acute in California because the departed three - the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and the Teamsters - constitute a far greater share of the labor movement out here than they do elsewhere, and (…)

What Does Democracy Really Mean In The Middle East? Whatever The West Decides
by Robert Fisk
It makes you want to scream. I have been driving the dingy, dangerous, oven-like streets of Baghdad all week, ever more infested with insurgents and their informers, the American troops driving terrified over the traffic islands, turning their guns on all of us if we approach within 50 metres.
In the weird, space-ship isolation of Saddam’s old republican palace, the Kurds and the Shia have been (…)

By LINDA BILMES
Cambridge, Mass.
THE human cost of the more than 2,000 American military personnel killed and 14,500 wounded so far in Iraq and Afghanistan is all too apparent. But the financial toll is still largely hidden from public view and, like the suffering of those who have lost loved ones, will persist long after the fighting is over.
The cost goes well beyond the more than $250 billion already spent on military operations and reconstruction. Basic running costs of the current (…)

by Patricia Grogg
HAVANA, Aug 22 (IPS) - Some are leaving with jobs waiting for them at home, others will have to fight to have their degrees recognised, but all of them now face a unique challenge: to serve as living proof of the effectiveness of the cooperation project that made it possible for them to study medicine in Cuba.
None of them is the same after having spent six years at the Latin American Medical School (ELAM) in Havana, where young people from low-income families in 28 (…)