MEXICO CITY A total of 215 Latino soldiers serving in the U.S. Army have already died in Iraq, but according to antiwar activists, this bad news comes with a silver lining: an ever smaller number of young people of Latin American descent are enlisting in the...
Follow That ‘Revolution’
The problem with Ukraine's "orange revolution" was perhaps symbolized by the country's entry into the Eurovision Song Contest, Greenjolly's "Razom Nas Bahato" (Together We Are Many). Of course it's just a coincidence that the song was the election campaign theme of...
Bush, Cheney Attack Amnesty International
WASHINGTON - Stung by Amnesty International's condemnation of U.S. detention facilities in Iraq and elsewhere overseas, the administration of President George W. Bush is reacting with indignation and even suggestions that terrorists are using the world's largest human...
Backtalk June 1, 2004
Is Bush a Sith Lord? Although I completely agree with the premise of the article "Is Bush a Sith Lord?," I am concerned that you claimed that child protective services framed parents to justify a large bureaucracy. I work in public social services. We are devoted...
Maoist Overture to Enter Nepal’s Mainstream Politics?
NEW DELHI - While India denies that its security agencies helped arrange meetings between a top Nepali Maoist leader and its political establishment, analysts welcome dialogue with the rebels as a key to ending a seemingly intractable crisis in the neighboring...
With Hand on Heart: Pelosi Admits Israel Comes First
"The lessons we should learn from all The fighting in the days of old When providence bestowed divine The sanctuary purified Let lightning circle all you hold And don't uproot the olive grove." - Mirah, "Jerusalem" I think it is finally time we stood up and thanked...
‘This Is the Freedom America Has Brought Us’
The mayhem continues in Iraq, with at least 40 people dead today including five U.S. soldiers in Diyala province, as the meltdown of the failed U.S.-led occupation continues. Two suicide bombers detonated themselves after walking into a crowd of police officers in...
Bush Opts for Civil War in Iraq
What are we to make of the news reports that Baghdad is to be encircled and divided into smaller and smaller sections by 40,000 Iraqi and 10,000 U.S. troops backed by U.S. airpower and armor in order to conduct house-to-house searches throughout the city to destroy...
Iranian Nuclear Power Crazy? Think Again
Sir David King, her majesty's chief scientist, has declared "global warming" to be a more serious threat to mankind than international terrorism. Hans Blix, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, concurs. James Lovelock, father of the Gaia...
Honor Our Children’s Sacrifices
To honor those who have died in Iraq, Democracy Rising interviewed the founder of Gold Star Families for Peace an organization made up of families who have lost members to the Iraq War. Cindy Sheehan lost her son, Casey, to the war/occupation and founded Gold...


