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Is the truth ever disloyal?
Don’t bother us with facts, we’re fighting a war here. That’s basically the story of all wars – at least in their early stages – and this one against terrorism (which, as it turns out, is indistinguishable from a war with Afghanistan) is no exception. Already we’ve seen television commentators, networks, newspapers and college professors […]
- November 17, 2001
Terrorist attacks affirm need for a shift in approach
Sister Helen Prejean, was portrayed in the movie Dead Man Walking which was based on her writings about the death penalty. She wrote this essay immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks. I’m on a U.S. Airways plane – half-filled – on my way back to New Orleans after a week of cancelled speaking engagements. I’ve […]
- November 17, 2001
From 2001 archives: What’s lurking behind the war in Afghanistan?
This article was first published Nov. 17, 2001. As the war in Afghanistan garners more attention with calls for more troops, we rerun this here as a contribution to the discussion. There is little wonder that the Bush administration – with its vast ties to ultra-right ideologues, oil, finance, military industries and intelligence agencies – […]
- November 17, 2001
Chicago marks peace day
CHICAGO – A throng of at least 600 people gathered on the shores of the Chicago River and marched through the downtown area on Nov. 7, the National Day of Peace Response. The American Friends Service Committee, and scores of other local and national organizations, initiated the day. The crowd, including people of all ages […]
- November 17, 2001
More women lack health insurance
A report issued by The Commonwealth Fund on Aug. 30 says the number of uninsured women between the ages of 18 and 64 grew three times faster than the number of uninsured men. Although the number of the uninsured increased for both groups between 1994 and 1998, the increase for women – 2.2 million vs. […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 17, 2001
Knesset limits democratic rights
TEL AVIV – Last week, the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, adopted two unprecedented racist resolutions. For the first time in the Israeli state’s history, the parliamentary immunity of an Arab Member of Knesset, Azmi Bishara of the (Arab) National Democratic Assembly (Balad) Party, was lifted so that he can be put on trial for political […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 17, 2001
Fast Track back from the dead
SAN FRANCISCO – On Sept. 12, Fast Track came back from the dead. The proposal to give the Bush administration new trade negotiation authority, which had no chance of passage through Congress earlier this year, was resurrected from the political boneyard in the new post-Sept. 11 world. Today, Fast Track is alive and well, and […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 17, 2001
Immigrants built this country, strikers say
HIGHWOOD, Ill. – A black coffin was placed beneath the speakers’ platform by pallbearers made up of striking Carousel Linen workers. The coffin signified scab labor, low wages and rotten working conditions, which strikers are determined to bury. This symbolic act opened the Nov. 9 rally in solidarity with the 40 industrial striking laundry workers. […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 17, 2001
New count: possible Gore win
An examination of all 175,010 uncounted ballots from Florida’s disputed 2000 presidential election revealed that Democrat Al Gore could have eked out a victory over George W. Bush, though he would have won by a razor-thin 171 votes out of more than six million ballots cast in the state. However, according to the study contracted […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 17, 2001
Tobacco giant in drug scam
LONDON, England – Anti-smoking campaigners yesterday condemned a tobacco giant for cashing in on cancer. Japan Tobacco, makers of Camel and Winston, have signed a deal with a biotech company for exclusive rights to market cancer vaccines. But anti-smoking groups say a vaccine promoted by a tobacco company would encourage smoking in the false belief […]
- By : Fred Gaboury
- November 17, 2001