Feb 22, 2003

Lies, obfuscation, denial, hyperbole and now outright plagiarism characterize the U.S. right-wing-led push to war against the people of Iraq.

As a young child growing up in Chicago I enjoyed the stories from my friends about their summer vacations in Mississippi. I wondered why my parents refused to let me visit there. Once I saw a story in the Chicago Defender with frightening photographs of a lynching in Mississippi. My desire to visit vanished. My first visit to Mississippi and the “New South” was in 1996.

our Native American men – all members of the North Dakota-based Turtle Mountain Chippewa [Ojibway] Nation – have been murdered in and around Grand Forks, N.D., within the last year and a half. There have been no arrests. The efforts by various North Dakota law enforcement and other officials in these tragedies have been notably laconic, confused, and omissive.

Take a glance at any major newspaper and you are likely to read something about terrorist groups based overseas. Perhaps Al Qaida, Hamas, or Black September. You will hear about the appalling actions that they carry out. But what is more appalling is what you don’t get to read about.

Stephen Zunes, associate professor of politics and chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco, has written a timely and informative book.

Bete.e and Stef, a talented duo from Montreal, Canada, first came to the attention of Canadians in 1997 with their self made and promoted CD Jazz/Bossa Nova. It sold 50,000 units, an incredible achievement when jazz CDs, either domestic or imported, sell at the most 10,000 CDs in Canada. Day by Day is Bete.e and Stef’s second release and it does not disappoint.

LOS ANGELES – Joining millions around the world on Feb. 15 over 100,000 marched and rallied here against President Bush’s war against Iraq.

LOS ANGELES – Uniéndose a millones alrededor del mundo, más de 100 mil marcharon en contra de la guerra del presidente Bush el 15 de febrero aquí. Esta protesta en la capital de la industria del espectáculo fue la más grande manifestación por la paz en la historia de esta ciudad.

LA HABANA (Prensa Latina) – Un grupo de empresarios de Estados Unidos llegó a Cuba, el 19 de febrero, para evaluar el estado de las relaciones comerciales entre ambas naciones con sus homólogos del archipiélago.

WASHINGTON, DC – Más de 200 veteranos de las luchas para los derechos civiles en Estados Unidos y los familiares de los fallecidos líderes y activistas Martin Luther King, Vernon Dahmer, Herbert Lee, Louis Allen, Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney y Andrew Goodman están peticionando al Tribunal Supremo norteamericano a defender la acción afirmativa en la educación superior.