With last week’s heat wave came a wave of violence and death. In San Jose, on the night of August 17, three teenagers were jumped while they were standing near their car. Two of them were stabbed. On August 19th, a 16 year-old boy from Richmond was shot and...
The Obama administration announced recently that troops in Iraq are withdrawing from the country and that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is finally ending after seven and a half years. But when we look at the reality of the U.S. presence in Iraq, it becomes clear that...
If you’ve paid any attention to the news lately, you could not have avoided the manufactured hysteria surrounding the construction of a Muslim community center two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center. What used to be a Burlington Coat Factory building is...
Proposition 8 was passed in California in November, 2008. It ruled that marriage must be between a man and a woman, and thereby placed a ban on all same-sex marriages. But last Wednesday, August 4, a federal judge overturned California’s ban. The ruling does not...
Last week, 75,000 secret military documents exposing the brutal reality of the US war in Afghanistan were leaked to the public. These classified documents were released through Wikileaks, a website that publishes anonymous documents exposing corporate and government...
