EDITORIAL: Baseball nations
Baseball, the quintessential American sport, is enjoyed by nations worldwide, whose athletes make invaluable contributions to the game. The inaugural World Baseball Classic ended this week which struck a new beginning for a real World Series.
Veterans march to New Orleans: Make levees, not war
NEW ORLEANS — Sunburned and footsore but in high spirits, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace (VFP) and their allies marched through this city March 19 chanting “Make levees, not war,” and “Hey, hey Uncle Sam, we remember Vietnam.”
A veterans account: Gulf Coast march for peace, justice
MOBILE, Ala. — I joined more than 150 Iraq war veterans, Vets for Peace and Gold Star parents together with Hurricane Katrina survivors beginning a 138-mile march from here to New Orleans, March 14. They accused the Bush administration of wasting $250 billion in tax dollars in Iraq, money desperately needed to rebuild the still devastated Gulf Coast.
Refinery workers take up collection for Iraqi child
Sarah, the oldest daughter of Emad Mohsin Jafar, a leader of Iraq’s oil workers union, was burned during a bombing in the first Gulf War, and needs reconstructive surgery.
Huge protests greet Bush in India
WASHINGTON — Pundits opined that India is the one place in the world George W. Bush would be “warmly welcomed.” And he was, by huge throngs of Indian protesters demonstrating against his policies of war and U.S. domination, rejecting Bush’s claim that his spreading democracy and ending terrorism. En español:
