Archive for September, 2007
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
The transcript of February 2003 discussions between US President George W. Bush and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar published Wednesday by Spain’s largest daily, El Pais, provides fresh documentary confirmation of what is already a widely known historical fact. That is: the Bush administration was determined to wage a war of aggression to conquer Iraq and was not about to allow international law or compromise settlements to interfere with its long-planned invasion.
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Seventy three thousand General Motors workers struck the largest US auto company Monday, shutting down all 82 facilities in a struggle to defend their most basic conditions—health care, jobs and wages.
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
A judge ruled on Friday that Mychal Bell, whose conviction as one of the Jena Six was thrown out earlier this month, must remain in prison pending an appeal from prosecutors to the Louisiana Supreme Court. Bell, the victim of a racist prosecution that has targeted six high school students, has already spent nine months in jail.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
The US Senate’s 75-to-25 vote in favor of a resolution condemning the liberal antiwar group MoveOn.org for publishing a newspaper ad questioning the credibility of Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus represents a chilling attack on freedom of speech and a further undermining of the bedrock constitutional principle that subordinates the military to democratic civilian control.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the rural Louisiana town of Jena on Thursday to protest the racist prosecution of six black high school students.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the rural Louisiana town of Jena on Thursday to protest the racist prosecution of six black high school students.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the rural Louisiana town of Jena on Thursday to protest the racist prosecution of six black high school students.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the rural Louisiana town of Jena on Thursday to protest the racist prosecution of six black high school students.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the rural Louisiana town of Jena on Thursday to protest the racist prosecution of six black high school students.
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Little more than 10 months after winning the leadership of both houses of the US Congress thanks to a swelling tide of opposition to the war in Iraq, the Democratic Party has largely abandoned even the pretense of a struggle to bring the war to an end.
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