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  • WTC steel to India

    WTC steel to India

    March 1, 2002

    At least 30,000 tons of scrap from the World Trade Center wreckage has been exported to India. Concerns over the potential contamination of the steel scrap has alarmed trade union and environmental groups in India and...

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  • U.S. may beef up security role in Afghanistan

    U.S. may beef up security role in Afghanistan

    March 1, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

    In both word and deed, the Bush administration indicated this week that it is escalating its military role in Afghanistan amid signs that increased clashes among competing warlords and challenges by rival militias to the U.S-installed...

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  • U.S. expanding war to Philippines

    U.S. expanding war to Philippines

    March 1, 2002

    Last week another contingent of the expected 660 U.S. soldiers arrived in the Philippines. Their arrival was greeted by an explosion that killed five Filipino civilians. Being called “the biggest expansion of Washington’s war” since the...

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  • Du Bois conference views media

    Du Bois conference views media

    March 1, 2002 By Evelina Alarcon

    NEW YORK – Activists gathered at New York University (NYU) Law School Feb. 22-24 for a conference dedicated to applying the legacy of scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to contemporary struggles of racism, culture, the environment, media...

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  • Enrons thievery hit India hard

    Enrons thievery hit India hard

    March 1, 2002

    HOUSTON – A detailed report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on brutality at Enron’s $3 billion Dabhol Power Company (DPC) project in India may be one reason President George Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney have...

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