Month May 2005

As he emerged triumphant from his showdown with the Senate committee on Tuesday, George Galloway told reporters: “I’m a politician that pleads guilty to using events like these for political purposes.” By most reckoning the British MP, an outspoken leftwinger…

Posada extradition issue poses major credibility challenge for US

From our comrades-in-the-struggle blog,  Lefti on the News Talk about results! Hundreds of thousands of Cubans march, and hours later Luis Posada Carriles is taken into custody (no, I don’t really think there was cause and effect, but the efforts…

Democracy is not something that you believe in, or something that you hang your hat on. It’s something that you do, you participate. Without participation, democracy crumbles and fails. If you participate, you win, and the future is yours. —…

Posada Carriles, an ultra-right Cuban exile who has been on the CIA payroll, is wanted in Venezuela for bombing a Cuban airliner and killing 73 people. The Bushies want to grant him asylum, making a hypocritical mockery of their “war on terror.”…