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Nader Calls U.S. War Riverboat Gamble

By Joe Spurr and Jenny Jiang, Globe Correspondents
Ralph Nader’s criticisms of the federal government during last year’s presidential race haven’t shrunk. They’ve grown.
Calling the US war in Afghanistan “a riverboat gamble,” Nader said President Bush is “basically in the process of burning down the haystack to find the needle.” In an interview yesterday with the [...]

Posted 11 November 2001 § The Boston Globe ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Activist Zinn Says War Not the Answer

Interview by Joe Spurr, Globe Correspondent
Howard Zinn, historian, author, Boston University professor emeritus, and antiwar activist, recently received the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Eugene V. Debs award for his writing and political activism. He has authored “A People’s History of the United States,” and his autobiography “You Can’t Be Neutral On [...]

Posted 30 September 2001 § The Boston Globe ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,