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  • To remember is not enough

    To remember is not enough

    February 3, 2006

    UNITED NATIONS — A candlelight vigil was held here the evening of Jan. 26, hours before the first International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, established at the UN’s September World...

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  • Cuba bristles: No to provocations!

    Cuba bristles: No to provocations!

    February 3, 2006

    Beginning Jan. 16, an electronic billboard high on the side of the U.S. Interests Section building in Havana has been streaming words from Abraham Lincoln, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

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  • Iraqs oil workers and their union, Photographs by David Bacon

    Iraqs oil workers and their union, Photographs by David Bacon

    January 27, 2006

    Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, oil workers in Basra reorganized one of Iraq’s oldest unions, faced the occupation’s prohibition on collective bargaining in the public sector, and forced U.S. contractor KBR to leave the oil...

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  • A political travelogue of South Korea

    A political travelogue of South Korea

    January 27, 2006

    My November trip to Vietnam (PWW 1/21-27) was preceded by a fascinating visit to Korea, giving me a glimpse of the two countries that the U.S. has done most to devastate. I was also drawn to...

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  • WORLDNOTES

    WORLDNOTES

    January 27, 2006

    Palestine: Despite obstacles, heavy turnout Despite severe restrictions imposed by the Israeli Occupation Forces, Palestinians voted in record numbers in Jan. 25 elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council. Tension was high in east Jerusalem where Israeli...

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