Month May 2003

Millions strike in France “France today witnessed the greatest workers’ mobilisations since the mass strike movement of 1995 which forced Prime Minister Alain Juppé to rein in his assault on pensions and social security and which precipitated the early electoral…

That’s me! There’s a photo of me on the home page of a website…! (Well, ok, this aerial photo of Peace on the Beach in Santa Monica also has several hundred others. We formed a human representation of Picasso’s Motherhood.  I’m, uh,…

Stakeknife Slugger O’Toole, a superb blog about Northern Ireland politics, opines that recent stories about a double agent named Stakeknive high in the IRA are less than credible and may be disinformation. “Quite a few senior members of the NI press…

Is Cuba the next U.S. target?Cuba recently executed three people for hijacking a boat, and gave stiff sentences to seventy five people for subversion. Extreme sentences? Maybe not. The U.S., under Bush, has steadily escalated their tactics against Cuba, to the…

Court says Sean Penn can sue against Hollywood blacklisting “Is there really a Hollywood blacklist against performers who don’t support the Bush administration? The answer may lie in a Los Angeles courtroom. A California judge has ruled that actor Sean…