NY Times, 8/25/06 The State Department is investigating whether Israel’s use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements with the United States that restrict when it can employ such…
Watching “When the Levees Broke” in New Orleans
From a World Can’t Wait Organizer: August 16th: We arrive in New Orleans. Tonight Spike Lee will premiere his film “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts” in the New…
“WATCH WHAT THEY SAY, WATCH WHAT THEY DO”:
THE BUSH REGIME’s CAMPAIGN TO SILENCE THE MEDIA By Kenneth J. Theisen, 8/25/06 The Bush regime has regularly attacked the media to silence exposure of its crimes. It fears the light of…
Protest Movements: Part I, Motti Ashkenazi and the Yom Kippur War
By Stanley Rogouski, 8/25/06 “The people have said their piece and no demonstration or rally will bring down the government”. -Moshe Dayan to Motti Askhenazi in 1974 Outside of the United States,…
F.D.A. Approves Broader Access to Next-Day Pill
NY Times, 8/25/06 The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved over-the-counter sales of the morning-after contraceptive pill to women 18 and older, resolving one of the most contentious issues in the…
Teacher Placed On Leave For Hanging Foreign Flags
Denver Channel 7 News, 8/24/06 A Jefferson County geography teacher was placed on paid administrative on the second day of school for hanging several flags from other countries in his classroom. [read…
Republican Senatorial Candidate Harris: Separation of church and state ‘a lie’
RawStory.com, 8/24/06 In a lengthy interview with Florida Baptist Witness, struggling U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris asserts, among other things, that the separation of church and state is a fallacy. [read more]
Statement on Censoring of Sister Helen Prejean for WCW NY Times Ad
From Debra Sweet, National Coordinator of The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime, 8/24/06: Because Sister Helen Prejean’s name appeared in WCW’s August 3 New York Times ad which…
Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List
NY Times, 8/24/06 Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students. [read more]
Muslim-Americans Say Racial Profiling Led To Detention At JFK Airport
New York 1, 8/23/06 A group of Muslim-Americans say they were detained for hours at Kennedy Airport when they came back to the U.S. last week after trips abroad, and they say…