They’re Going After Planned Parenthood: Phill Kline, Robert Novak, and the Right Wing
Over the last few weeks, we have seen a series of stepped-up attacks on Planned Parenthood from far-right organizations, their allies on Capitol Hill and in the conservative media.
Setting the Record Straight: Marxism and Literature
US newspapers were all abuzz this month when Doris Lessing, most well-known for her novel The Golden Notebook, won the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Lessing also raised eyebrows when in an interview she proclaimed that 9/11 wasn't as bad as Americans thought).
Georgia: Agnes Scott College Workers Protest for Living Wages
About 50 students, faculty members, staff members of Agnes Scott College, and other concerned community activists gathered on campus Friday, October 26, 2007, to ask the Agnes Scott College Board of Trustees to institute living wages for all staff members.
Bush's War Cry
Viva Cuba libre! (Long live free Cuba!). That was the war cry throughout the plains and the mountains, forests and sugarcane fields, identifying those who began Cuba's first war of independence on October 10, 1868.
Canadian Couple Goes to Cuba for Quality Medical Care
A Halifax couple, Vern and Diane Paul went to Cuba for her double-knee replacement, but instead they both were operated on.
Twelve Years After Rabin's Assassination
About the young Yitzhak Rabin, who joined the Palmach (the pre-independence 'regular forces'). The commander who drove the Arabs from their homes in the 1948 war. The Chief of Staff who called, on us, after the Six-Day War, to honor the enemy dead.
Depleted Uranium and Depleted Democracy
There are those who think Congress should keep shelling out our grandchildren's money to continue our occupation of Iraq, and there are those who think Congress should pass a bill opposing the occupation.
