International
Equatorial Guinea in the crosshairs
December 3, 2004News Analysis Imperialist conspiracies to seize control of natural resources and to dominate peoples of distant lands are in full swing. Apart from the Iraqi debacle, the events unfolding in the former Spanish colony of Equatorial...
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Outrageous!
December 3, 2004Halliburton bilks gov’t for billions in Iraq, then loses one-third of property Outrageous! That is what many are calling the war profiteering by U.S. corporations who have flocked into Iraq. In particular, Halliburton Corp., which Vice...
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Haitian priest rebuffs govt frame-up
November 19, 2004A Haitian judge has rejected government charges that imprisoned Father Gerard Jean-Juste, a Roman Catholic priest and pro-democracy activist, was responsible for importing weapons and inciting recent violence in Haiti. Police arrested and manhandled Jean-Juste, a...
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Colombia deports 4 unionists
November 19, 2004Aidan White, general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, condemned the Colombian government last week for deporting four senior international trade unionists from the international airport in Bogotá in early November. “In a country where...
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Every day were in Iraq, situation gets worse
November 19, 2004In the wake of the U.S. assault on Fallujah, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, called for investigation of possible violations of international laws on treatment of civilians and war prisoners in...
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