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  • International Notes

    International Notes

    March 15, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

    Human rights campaign in South Africa/Australian minister nixes Kyoto agreement/Russia: U.S. troops could deepen conflicts/Paris strikers win over McDonald’s

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  • Media coverage of war and peace

    Media coverage of war and peace

    March 15, 2002

    In the second half of the last century the American public has been able to exert decisive blows to the plans of those who involve us in armed conflicts. There is every indication that if the...

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  • Bush threatens use of nuclear weapons

    Bush threatens use of nuclear weapons

    March 15, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

    A story in the March 10 edition of The Los Angeles Times revealed that the Pentagon has drawn up a list of seven countries who are prime targets for U.S. nuclear weapons in the event of...

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  • Anti-elitists sincere, but poorly organized

    Anti-elitists sincere, but poorly organized

    March 8, 2002

    The second annual World Social Forum, held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the end of January, is now over, and the intention is to make it an annual event. Overwhelmingly, participants agree the forum was a...

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  • Moratorium rally keeps the fire a-burning

    Moratorium rally keeps the fire a-burning

    March 8, 2002

    One Thursday night in January, I arrived late to a rally at Chicago’s Hyde Park Community Church, a 100-year-old architectural landmark with its stone and oak benches and oak trim everywhere. There were no seats left,...

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