Analysis
Republicans threaten the world with nukes
October 17, 2003Opinion Last year, the Bush administration sought $15.5 million for a three-year program called Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator Program (RNEP), to study usable nuclear weapons. This program would try to build two large weapons with yields...
Read moreA world of light and darkness
October 10, 2003Opinion Recently, news of a blackout hit the world press: the giant blackout that affected more than 50 million people in the northeastern USA and Canada. It lasted more than 24 hours, paralyzing transportation, causing massive...
Read moreA new beginning for WTO after Cancun
October 10, 2003Opinion Forget the spin you have been reading in the papers about the “failure” of the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun. It was one of the most successful international meetings in years because it redefined...
Read moreAborting rights
October 10, 2003Opinion President Bush may soon sign legislation that bans abortions – with no exception for the mother’s health – and would jail doctors for providing what is in some cases life-and-death reproductive health care to women...
Read moreFreedom Ride shakes up political landscape
October 10, 2003Armed with solidarity, songs and the legacy of America’s civil rights movement, two busloads of immigrants and their African-American, white, Arab-, Asian-, and Latin-American supporters faced down dozens of Department of Homeland Security agents and their...
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