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International Notes

August 29, 2003

Cuba: Trade pacts signed with Alabama The State of Alabama signed three trade agreements in Havana last week. On Aug. 21, Ron Sparks, the state’s commissioner for agriculture and industry, and Pedro Alvarez, president of the...

New thinking on global warming

August 22, 2003

According to a report issued by a committee of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2002, severe change in the earth’s climate can take place in less than a decade. This runs counter to the...

The Rosenbergs and the Cuban Five

August 22, 2003 By John Gilman

Opinion Political frameups of pro-labor, antiracist and antiwar activists are nothing new in U.S. history. The Haymarket martyrs, Tom Mooney, Sacco and Vanzetti, Angelo Herndon, Angela Davis: these are just a few of the most celebrated...

International notes

August 22, 2003

Swaziland: Protesters demand democracy Swazi demonstrators and their South African supporters wound up four days of protests for democracy and human rights Aug. 15 with a joint rally at the Oshoek border post between the two...

Soldier Sal is safe so far

August 15, 2003

Sal, a young Texas soldier in Iraq, writes to let us know that he is OK. Hi Jim, Just a letter to let everyone know I am OK. Nothing bad happened. Before I left on the...