Peace
Bush faces coalition of the dwindling
June 2, 2006It’s a coalition of the dwindling. The U.S.-led multinational occupying force in Iraq is losing troops from two of its most important allies -Italy and South Korea -and up to a half dozen other members could...
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EDITORIAL: Honoring all the war dead
June 2, 2006Two grim reminders of war’s toll on innocent civilians marked Memorial Day weekend this year. In Iraq, details continued to emerge about the November 2005 tragedy at Haditha, where after a Marine was killed by a...
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UN panel condemns U.S. torture
June 2, 2006The United Nations Committee Against Torture has asked the U.S. to shut down the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility where prisoners are being held in hellish conditions without recourse to legal counsel or trial. At hearings...
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Antiwar activists take struggle to Capitol Hill: Massacre spurs opposition to Iraq war
May 26, 2006WASHINGTON — Peace activists from 23 states and the District of Columbia converged on Capitol Hill, May 22, to lobby their senators and representatives for an end to the Iraq war, just as reports of a...
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Three decades later, Agent Orange still ravages Vietnam, GIs
May 12, 2006An unprecedented meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 28-29, proved that wounds from the Vietnam War are still open and bleeding three decades after that conflict supposedly ended. It was the first International Conference of Victims of...
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