Bush Admits He Approved Torture
In ABC-TV interview, Bush acknowledged approving “enhanced interrogation” and waterboarding of detainees by Helen Thomas /’ May 2, 2008, the…
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No Peace, No Work: ILWU Shuts Down West Coast Ports on May Day
Michael Steinberg May 2, 2008 2 Comments on No Peace, No Work: ILWU Shuts Down West Coast Ports on May Day
SAN FRANCISCO, CA. May 1- Inside the headquarters of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 at 400 North Point…
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March 2008 Antiwar Arrests Reached 399
Okay, we were wrong, We had reported that there had been 365 arrests during the antiwar “march madness”. We have…
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San Diego & National City Docks Quiet As Local Port Workers Join Antiwar Protest
Staff May 1, 2008 1 Comment on San Diego & National City Docks Quiet As Local Port Workers Join Antiwar Protest
By Ronald W. Powell / UNION-TRIBUNE / May 1, 2008 Port workers at cargo terminals in San Diego and National…
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Mainstream Media Pick-Up Story of May Day Antiwar Dock Strike
REUTERS: “… no activity … up and down the West Coast” By Jill Serjeant and Bernard Woodall / 2:55PDT LOS…
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Mainstream Media Refuse to Pursue Pentagon Propaganda Scandal
by Arianna Huffington The last ten days have been among the most shameful in the history of American journalism. On…
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Striking Longshore Union Has History of Political Protest
By Peter Cole- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 29, 2008 On Thursday, May Day, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union will declare…
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West Coast Dock-Workers Shut Down 29 Ports
“There is no one here, the streets are dead,” says Oakland, CA trucker OAKLAND, CA. An initial ABC KGO NEWS…
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Homeland Security Plans “Terrorist” & Disaster Drills Beginning May First
Frank Gormlie April 30, 2008 1 Comment on Homeland Security Plans “Terrorist” & Disaster Drills Beginning May First
Beginning May 1, and continuing for the rest of that week, the Department of Homeland Security is planning to undertake…
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A Litany of Horrors – America’s University of Imperialism
Book Review of Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire by Alex Abella By…
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1,000 Vets a Month Attempt Suicide
An email intercepted by CBS News shows that the VA’s head of Mental Health has knowingly lied to the public,…
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Compassion: The First Casualty of War
It has often been said that “truth is the first casualty of war.” But there is another immediate casualty -compassion….
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