John McCain: Bad News for American Workers
In his most recent op-ed in Solidarity magazine titled 'It's time for a change,' United Autoworkers (UAW) President Ron Gettelfinger fired both rhetorical barrels at George W. Bush and John McCain.
Colombia's Agression: a Top Issue in Geneva
Ecuador´s Justice Minister Gustavo Jalkh, asked Colombia's aggression to his country be addressed by the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.
Colombia’s President Uribe Goes Dangerously Ballistic
On Saturday, the Colombian air force attacked a FARC camp site in Ecuador, a mile from the Colombian border resulting in the death of Raul Reyes (Luis Edgar Devia Silva), the second in command of the FARC, and seventeen other members of his unit.
The Senator from Comcast?: Arlen Specter and SpyGate
SpyGate is the sports scandal du jour. It centers on the New England Patriots surreptitious videotaping of the New York Jets last September and the subsequent destruction of the evidence by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
The Exceptions of Democracy
As one of the famed theoretical architects of the so-called 'War on Terror,' and of the subsequent US invasion of Iraq, Francis Fukuyama’s much celebrated postmodern, even in some respects deconstructionist, notion of the 'End of History' repeated in a kitsch fashion that which others have already repeated of the philosopher Hegel, who said it far more eloquently a long time ago.
John McCain Embraces Endorsement by Religious Bigot
A Feb. 28 endorsement by right-wing religious television personality John Hagee has earned Republican presidential hopeful John McCain renewed criticism from both the left and right for appearing to embrace the sharply bigoted Hagee has staked out over the years.
Job Creation in South Africa, a Work in Progress
Although the South African government's Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is on track to achieve its main objective of creating one million jobs for the poor by 2009, significant and sustained poverty alleviation is unlikely, according to an independent review of the project.
From South Africa to Detroit, People Demand Change
DETROIT – South Africa is at a crossroads, said Political Affairs Editor Joe Sims here at the Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery, Mar. 1.
Canada: Communist Party-Alberta Contests March 3rd Election
Two women Communist candidates are on the ballot for Alberta's March 3 election. In Edmonton Mill Creek, Naomi Rankin is on the ballot. Bonnie Collins is the Communist candidate in Calgary East, where she has lived for nine years with her spouse and their four children.
John Bolton: Boisterous Bully of Bloviation
There is an excellent review of John Bolton's new book, 'Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad' by Brian Urquhart (a former UN under-secretary general) in the March 6, 2008 issue of The New York Review of Books ('One Angry Man').
