Veterans denounce Iraq war at U.S.-Canada Peace Arch
PEACE ARCH, U.S.-Canada Border — U.S. and Canadian war protesters gathered here Aug. 13 to applaud U.S. soldiers who fled to Canada to avoid duty in Iraq and to demand an end to the war and occupation.
Q&A
I noticed that recent CPUSA statements on the Middle East put a heavy weight on Israel’s responsibility and much lighter weight on Hezbollah or Hamas. Why doesn’t the CPUSA take a more even-handed approach?
Public workers map plan for 21st century
CHICAGO — “It’s time, past time, that our soldiers come back home to their families” from Iraq, said Gerald McEntee, international president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union, in his keynote address to nearly 6,000 convention delegates and guests who assembled here Aug. 8.
Israelis march against the war: Bring the soldiers home!
TEL AVIV, Israel — The biggest Israeli demonstration against the war to date took place here Aug. 5 in the heart of the city’s downtown, an area that is considered especially right-wing.
EDITORIAL: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This year, on the 61st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the stakes are higher than ever in the struggle to eliminate a destructive power that could end life as we know it.
Despite world outcry, Israel launches ground attack on Lebanon
Only days after an Israeli bomb smashed into a residential building in the southern Lebanon village of Qana, killing at least 62 civilians, 35 of them children — and provoking worldwide shock, horror and outrage — the Israeli government brusquely rejected worldwide calls for an immediate cease-fire.
