International – Page 604

White House lies prompt call for inquiry

July 18, 2003

As President Bush and other administration officials scramble to explain away their use of doctored evidence to launch a preemptive war on Iraq, calls for independent, bipartisan investigations grow. Mounting evidence shows that the administration’s top...

Hip-hop in Brazil

July 11, 2003 By Jessica Marshall

Hip-hop was born in New York but if you talk to most young people in São Paulo, Brazil, they’ll tell you that they feel like it belongs to them. No one will deny it is an...

A road map to peace or subjugation?

July 11, 2003

Opinion A fragile Israeli-Palestinian truce, a limited pullback of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, and Israel’s release of a handful of Palestinian prisoners have combined to lend an appearance of momentum to the U.S.-led “road...

Liberia in the Bush administrations crosshairs

July 11, 2003

This week, U.S. President George Bush embarked on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa. His five-day itinerary included Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria. Ironically, media attention has largely focused on another African country this...

International notes

July 11, 2003

Britain: Foreign office concerned re U.S. military trials British government officials, human rights activists and lawyers for detainees’ families are expressing concern over the situation of two British citizens, detained at Guantanamo as Al Qaeda suspects....