World

Movie REVIEW: Bamako: An African indictment of the World Bank

November 17, 2006

Movie REVIEWBamako Written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako 115 minutes By Bill Meyer From the cinema of the Third World comes “Bamako,” a fascinating and thought-provoking exposé of the World Bank and the effects of its...

Swimming to the other side, memoirs of Victor Grossman

November 17, 2006

BOOKREVIEWCrossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War and Life in East Germany By Victor Grossman University of Massachusetts Press, 2003 Softcover, 328 pp., $24.95 “Thinking of Germany in the night,” wrote...

Citgo donates $400,000 to Chicago school clinic

November 10, 2006

CHICAGO — Citgo Petroleum Corp., the U.S.-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s publicly owned oil company, announced Nov. 2 it was giving $400,000 to help kick-start a new health clinic at Little Village Lawndale High School on the...

Film captures horror of repression in Haiti

November 3, 2006

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — After U.S. Marines seized Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29, 2004, and flew him to the Central African Republic, the newly installed interim government unleashed a campaign of terror against Aristide’s...

EDITORIAL: Global warming: act now

November 3, 2006

A new British government study considered the most comprehensive review on the economic impact of global warming says “staying the course” will have dire consequences for human social and economic activity. At the same time, it...