No Child Left Behind? Let's Fund Public Education
No Child Left Behind law (NCLB) comes up for re-authorization in the current session of Congress. The law, originally passed in 2002, is the Bush Administration’s response to rising demands for an increased federal role in support of public education.
The Dominican Republic Pursues Modernity and Rectitude
With an increasingly prosperous economy, stable political institutions, and a booming tourism industry, it seems that the DR is well prepared to be perceived as one of the most successful modernizing countries in the early years of this century.
DeKalb County, Georgia Approves $5 Million for Grady Hospital
The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners approved Tuesday, October 09, 2007, a package of resolutions concerning the Grady Health System, including $5 million in emergency funding.
Two Knights and a Dragon
I agree that the US is acting against its true interest (and the true interests of Israel) – but the American leadership does not see it that way. Bush and his people believe that it would be advantageous for the US to establish a permanent American military presence in the middle of this region of huge oil reserves.
Auto Pact: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The wages and working conditions of union autoworkers have always set standards for all manufacturing. These in turn have put upward pressure on wages and benefits for all workers.
Reflections of President Fidel Castro: Che
I make a halt in my daily struggle to bow my head in respect and gratitude to the exceptional combatant who fell on October 8th, forty years ago
Seymour Hersh on Bush's Plan for Iran
Pressure has to be increased on the Congress to try and rein Bush and his generals in before they can create an even bigger catastrophe in the Middle East.
Shortage of Safe Water in Missan, Iraq Poses Health Risk
A shortage of chemicals for water purification is adversely affecting water quality in Missan Province, a predominantly Shia region some 380km south of Baghdad, and posing a health risk as people resort to drawing water from the polluted River Tigris
San Francisco Security Guards Arrested During Union Protest
Security guards and their supporters march through downtown San Francisco, and then sit in and block an intersection.
Override Bush's Veto of Children's Health Care, says Coalition
Americans of all political stripes are organizing to turn their disbelief and anger at last week's Bush veto of the S-CHIP reauthorization bill into constructive action to save the program.
