Dec. 3, 2005

It is appalling and cruel that anti-democratic anti-abortion forces, including the Bush Justice Department, are attacking the rights of young women, often the victims of rape and incest.

Hurricane Wilma appeal
Looking for Gulf Coast contacts
Sports skills
Drug plan ripoff
A real drug plan
Different take on 50 Cent
Older than we thought

When and where will the horrors of the Cheney-Bush administration finally end? What will they not stoop to? In the very midst of the excruciatingly public dispute about whether we should allow our leaders to use torture, and whether in fact they have been sending prisoners all over the globe to be tortured, the United States now admits to chemical warfare. What’s next, the use of bird flu as an antipersonnel weapon?

Forget about the hurricanes. Put them out of your mind. We’ll never know for sure that any particular hurricane is caused by global warming, so just don’t think about them. Instead, concentrate on the other evidence for climate change that’s appeared recently:

Each year Bill Meyer reviews movies shown at the Toronto International Film Festival for the PWW. The following is the first in his Progressive Cinema series.

The Nov. 16 CBS special, “I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash,” featured everybody from Sheryl Crow to Martina McBride, from Dwight Yoakam to U2, performing some of Cash’s most famous songs. It was a night of extraordinary music and yet it only spotlighted the fact that Cash was unique. No one else can “do” Johnny Cash. It’s got to be the real deal.

The USA Patriot Act, major parts of which have to be reauthorized by Congress before the end of the year, has run into unexpected trouble, with both Democrats and some Republicans balking on conceding powers desired by the White House.

Routine administrative and legal procedures are often subject to manipulation, never more so than when Cuba’s enemies manipulate them.

WASHINGTON – La Coalición por las Necesidades Humanas (CNH) denunció el “espectáculo de avaricia” que dicen fue el voto el 18 de noviembre en la Cámara que aprobó recortes de $50 mil millones en fondos para cupones de alimento, Medicaid, y otros beneficios vitales para los pobres durante los próximos cinco años, mientras que el liderazgo republicano busca recortes de lo que los ricos pagan en impuestos de $70 mil millones.