News

                
  • White House put itself above the law

    White House put itself above the law

    June 11, 2004 By Susan Webb

    Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia is sitting in an Army brig at Ft. Sill, Okla., because he rejected the torture and brutality carried out by U.S. occupation forces in Iraq. Mejia served eight years in the Army...

    Read more
  • Workers confront Visteon violence

    Workers confront Visteon violence

    June 11, 2004

    BEDFORD, Ind. – To workers on the mass picket line at the Visteon auto parts plant here, it seems like the company, a Ford spin-off, has planned long and hard to systematically slash their wages and...

    Read more
  • Vernon Jarrett: a partisan journalistic giant

    Vernon Jarrett: a partisan journalistic giant

    June 4, 2004

    Opinion Readers like me can be extremely selective of the journalists we read habitually. We do not have to agree with every word or be humored by diversionary jokes and meaningless anecdotes. We want simplicity that...

    Read more
  • Letters

    Letters

    June 4, 2004

    A billion here, a billion there The title to this little verse was borrowed from an excellent leaflet that was distributed at a recent demonstration. I owe a debt of gratitude to them and the demonstration....

    Read more
  • Editorials

    Editorials

    June 4, 2004

    A recovery in profits, not wages The Bush administration must be thinking the U.S. is a nation of ingrates. The economy is humming along so nicely, they say. Why then has George W. Bush’s approval rating...

    Read more