McKinney Discusses Her Bush Impeachment Bill
“Nothing is off the table unless the American people allow it to be so,” US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) said in an exclusive interview with Atlanta Progressive News (APN) about her Articles of Impeachment against President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.
Iraqi Workers Form Unions Despite Violence, Obstacles
This week (Dec. 6), the Iraq Study Group issued a bipartisan report calling the situation in Iraq “grave and deteriorating,” with civilians killed daily and electricity, water and other basic infrastructure lacking.
Reforma constitucional en Venezuela, socialismo es el límite
Con la propuesta de reforma constitucional para su próximo mandato, el presidente Hugo Chávez coloca hoy a Venezuela en el centro de un debate que trasciende las fronteras nacionales: la vigencia del socialismo.
A Divided Chile Contemplates Pinochet’s Passing
As millions around the world celebrated International Human Rights Day on December 10, the event was overshadowed throughout Chile as its citizens both mourned and celebrated the death of ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled the South American country from 1974 to 1990.
What the U.S. Really Learned From World War II
Another December 7th has come and gone and Americans once again are reminded how their alleged lack of military preparedness almost led to their defeat by the Japanese and Germans. Trouble is, the U.S. had been building up its military machine as never before under President Franklin Roosevelt and in 1941 it was manufacturing more warplanes than Germany, Japan and Italy combined.
Kofi Annan: All civilization is at stake
Against such threats as these, no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.
Employee Free Choice Act NOW
As hundreds of union organizers and supporters attending the AFL-CIO Organizing Summit marched down New Jersey Avenue in Washington, D.C., heading to the Capitol this afternoon, we chanted: “Union power on the rise. Now’s the time to organize!”
O’Neil, Grant, Simmons, and the World Series that Should Have Been
I never felt it was my place to question Negro League players. To me their parks are to be viewed as temples, undefiled by incompetence and me-ism. Hard-core athletes whose only performance enhancement was their love of the game, good times, and their own camaraderie.
Bread, Bread, Everywhere, Yet not a Morsel to Eat
Pelted by a perpetual hail of electrons fired through a cathode ray tube, the pixels on my PC monitor feed me a generous intellectual bounty of words and images emanating from virtually infinite points dotting the globe.
Cuban Churches qualify position of Czech Ecumenical Council as anti-Christian
THE Cuban ecclesiastical authorities met in the Pastoral Forum of the Cuban Episcopal Cathedral in Havana in order to respond to provocative and offensive statements to the Cuban government and the Cuban Council of Churches by Jitka Klubaloba, general secretary of the Ecumenical Council of Churches of the Czech Republic, and signed a statement condemning her utterances.
