Peace
Charges against Peace Grannies dropped
December 8, 2006PHILADELPHIA — “It was a magnificent day,” said Peace Granny Marlene Santoyo. On Dec. 1, Municipal Court Judge Deborah Griffin dismissed the charges against 11 grandmothers arrested June 28 when they refused to leave a military...
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Will U.S. get out of Iraq? Debate over Iraq options unfolds
December 8, 2006When the bipartisan Iraq Study Group released its recommendations Dec. 6, they were widely seen as an effort to identify the “least bad” options for U.S. ruling circles that would, to the extent possible, salvage their...
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Film exposes deadly war profiteering in Iraq
December 1, 2006MOVIE REVIEWDirector and producer Robert Greenwald, whose previous films include progressive documentaries such as “Outfoxed” (about Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News) and “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price,” has brought us an extremely important movie with...
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Q&A about Iraq Iraqi Communist Party viewpoint
December 1, 2006How do Iraqi Communists view the upsurge of violence in Iraq? There are a number of important interacting factors here. The recent upsurge of violence, which has taken a sectarian form, has been in essence a...
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22,000 say: Close the School of the Americas
December 1, 2006FORT BENNING, Ga. — More than 22,000 people from all over the United States and Canada, half of them young people, gathered here Nov. 17-19 to demand that the Defense Department’s School of the Americas (SOA)...
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