International

                
  • U.S. military bases cast shadow across Japan

    U.S. military bases cast shadow across Japan

    March 5, 2004

    ATAMI, Japan – Muneyoshi Furugen has lived in the shadow of the U.S. bases on Okinawa all of his life. He speaks in a calm and deliberate manner with a small smile. Yet underneath, when he...

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  • Iraqi women, workers say: U.S. out!

    Iraqi women, workers say: U.S. out!

    March 5, 2004 By Susan Webb

    As Iraq moved to take back political sovereignty, Iraqi trade unionists and women’s organizations condemned bloody terrorist attacks that killed some 300 people and wounded many others at religious observances in Baghdad and Karbala this week.

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  • U.S.-backed coup spurs terror in Haiti

    U.S.-backed coup spurs terror in Haiti

    March 5, 2004 By Mark Almberg

    The ouster of democratically-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by a U.S.-sponsored coup has plunged Haiti into chaos, with right-wing death squads unleashing a campaign of terror and bloodletting against Aristide supporters across the country. Vigilantes and paramilitary...

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  • International notes

    International notes

    March 4, 2004

    Sudan: Ceasefire extended The Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM/A) Feb. 28 extended their ongoing ceasefire for another month, while they continue to negotiate a final peace agreement. As a result of the...

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  • Guatemalans hail Cuban medical workers

    Guatemalans hail Cuban medical workers

    March 4, 2004

    Alfonso Portillo, Guatemala’s last president, is hardly a political ally of Fidel Castro’s, but that didn’t stop him heaping praise on Cuba’s doctors in his farewell speech in mid-January. “As my last state duty, I didn’t...

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