Imperium Watch: The “Empire of Bases”
The U.S. is expanding its military presence in Colombia, which prompts a look at our ever-growing overseas troop presence and what it is costing us—not just in money.The Institute for Policy Studies finds that we have at least 865 bases outside the United...Keough in Hot Water Again
In 2007, disgraced former Springfield City Councilor Frankie Keough was sentenced to three years in federal prison for stealing from Friends of the Homeless, the city shelter he ran. In an apology offered before the court, Keough “expressed a mix of anguish and...Levasseur's Latest Blowup
The firestorm surrounding a scheduled speech by radical Ray Luc Levasseur at UMass last week just kept getting bigger and bigger. It was a storm of voices: the voice of Levasseur, a mill worker and Vietnam vet from Maine, who in response to what he saw as killings of...Levasseur Blowup: The Voices
Ray Luc Levasseur, in a statement at the U.S. District Courthouse in Springfield in 1989: “I was born into a particular class of workers that was severely exploited and subjected to certain kinds of conditions. And that left an imprint on my mind that I was...E-Edition
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