International
Groups break U.S. blockade of Cuba
July 25, 2003It’s been a big week for those seeking an end to the 42-year-old U.S. blockade against socialist Cuba. Openly defying the U.S. embargo, the 14th U.S./Cuba Friendshipment caravan arrived in Havana on July 19 with 80...
Read moreBBC spotlights Israels WMDs
July 25, 2003In a recent 50-minute television documentary entitled, “Israel’s Secret Weapons,” the British Broadcasting Corp.’s World Service points its finger at Israel’s nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of mass destruction. The BBC documentary opens with four questions:...
Read moreUnthinkable Undrinkable. Stop the killing, boycott Coke
July 25, 2003“We are doing this to save the lives of our members,” declared Colombian union leader Javier Luis Correa, launching an international boycott of Coca-Cola products July 22. Correa, president of Colombia’s National Union of Food Industry...
Read moreDominican impoverishment deepens
July 25, 2003SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Dominicans are much poorer today than six months ago. The devastating effects of the financial crisis and the devaluation of the peso in the first half of 2003 have dramatically reduced...
Read moreBush warhawks beg UN for help
July 25, 2003The Bush administration, which thumbed its nose at the United Nations before the Iraq war, has now been forced to beg the UN for help with its foundering occupation.
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