Peace

Democratic presidential contender John Kerry captured what many Americans — including an unprecedented array of military commanders and leading Republicans — are saying about Iraq, when he charged that George W. Bush has created “a chaos that has left America less secure.”

Earlier this summer, on July 19, the House of Representatives passed HR 1587, the “Vietnam Human Rights Act,” by 322 votes to 45.

BERLIN — The Sept. 19 elections in two East German states dealt heavy losses to the country’s two major parties, with electoral gains for the left and, disturbingly, the extreme right.

The massive Aug. 29 demonstration in New York against the Bush agenda will be a historic event for our nation.

NEW YORK — United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) is going ahead with mobilization for its Aug. 29 peaceful and legal march past Madison Square Garden, the site of the Republican Convention, organizers stressed Aug. 18.

PHILADELPHIA — In the wake of the Feb. 29 U.S.-backed coup d’etat against Haiti’s constitutionally elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the Haitian people’s living conditions and political freedoms have sharply deteriorated, eyewitnesses say.

HAVANA — Speaking July 18 to 300 visiting North Americans, Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba’s National Assembly, discussed the recently released report of Bush’s “Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba.”

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Community activists and civil rights attorneys flocked to an Aug. 2 public hearing here to challenge the legitimacy of a year-old city ordinance that places sharp and seemingly arbitrary restrictions on what parade marchers or demonstrators can carry with them as they march.

A former division of one of the nation’s largest outsourcing contractors, Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), is under investigation for violating federal procurement regulations because it allegedly supplied interrogators and intelligence analysts to the Defense Department under false pretenses.

The biggest story of the Iraq war is not about missing weapons of mass destruction, or about deep-cover CIA officers getting their covers blown by vengeful White House agents, or even about 900 dead American soldiers.