International – Page 617

Cuba and dissidents

May 9, 2003

Opinion The recent arrest, trial and sentencing of dissidents in Cuba has been much criticized in the West from the standpoint of human rights and legalities. But I look beyond that to what it tells us...

May Day around the world

May 9, 2003

Iraq: Iraqi communists marked May Day for the first time in many decades, marching in central Baghdad under giant banners calling for security, democracy and peace in their country. The demonstration, which started in historic Fardus...

Vieques: Celebration and commitment

May 9, 2003

Hundreds of people stood waiting outside the gates of Camp Garcia, the U.S. Navy’s firing zone in the island municipality of Vieques. They were waiting until 12:01 AM, May 1, the first full day when the...

Sharon sabotages Road Map peace plan

May 9, 2003

TEL AVIV – Acts of escalated state terror, engineered and ordered by the Israeli rulers and their so-called security forces, have injured over 200 and cost the lives of at least 25 Palestinians and five Israelis...

The people of Korea pursue peace

May 9, 2003

The Bush administration continues to foster belligerency and the threat of war against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (north Korea). Yet, the people and governments of both north and south Korea are more determined than...