Pedaling Away From Principle: Lance Armstrong Cozies Up To Bush
'The Tour de Crawford.' The words blared from a red, white, and blue piece of spandex that George W. Bush presented to Lance Armstrong at his Crawford, Texas ranch. The gifting followed a 17-mile bike ride where they gazed at the landscape that Bush calls 'my slice of heaven.'
LUIS POSADA CARRILES MUST BE TRIED IN VENEZUELA
On August 25, 2004, the unspeakable happened: the outgoing president of Panama, Mireya Moscoso, pardoned Posada Carriles and his three accomplices, violating Panamanian law which provides that prisoners may be pardoned only when all judicial proceedings have ended. Posada Carriles's trial was in the appeals phase.
Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela
If you only listen to what the Bush administration or the corporate media have to say about what is happening in Venezuela, you probably have a distorted view of that country. What you may not know is that since 1998 seven nationwide elections and referenda have shown that support for President Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian Revolution has steadily grown.
An Open Letter About Continued [AFL-CIO] Solidarity at the State and Local Level
At this time in our history when working people are facing relentless attacks on their standard of living, when employers are intensifying their opposition to the efforts of workers to form unions and when our unions are confronting attempts to destroy their right to engage the political process on behalf of working families, we need now, more than ever, to maintain our solidarity...
Cuba Spends Billions on Doctors, US on War
“This commencement ceremony is proof of the capacity of human beings to reach higher goals and a prize for those who believe that a better world is within our reach,” said Cuban President Fidel Castro at the first graduation ceremony of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana.
GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: FACTS, HISTORY, POLITICAL REALITY
The Gaza Strip is located on the Mediterranean Sea and borders Israel to the north and east and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to the south. It is inhabited by 1.4 million Palestinians (including nearly one million refugees from the 1948 war in which Israel conquered 78% of historic Palestine) and around 8,500 illegal Israeli settlers.
Pastors for Peace members threatened with heavy fines for traveling to Cuba
The leader of the organization Pastors for Peace, Lucius Walker, affirmed this Thursday that his group’s solidarity with Cuba was never stronger, as is its determination to confront the anti-Cuban measures of the U.S. administration... First they received a 14-point questionnaire regarding their activities in Cuba, which they refused to answer, and now they are receiving letters from the Treasury Department asking them to provide the names of people they spoke with in Cuba.
Sheehan Breakthroughs, Unbridgeable Divides, and Taboos Unbroken
[It hasn't] been two months since the media, still refusing to call lies 'lies', was pretending that evidence of lies (like the Downing Street Memos) was 'old news.' Now, it's new news, thanks to Cindy. And thanks, also, to the polls, which show public opinion of the war sinking very low. But, most of the thanks goes to the Cindy Sheehan media phenomenon.
