International – Page 625

Debt bondage Debt bondage

April 17, 2003 By Wadi’h Halabi

The burden of unpayable debt is rising rapidly worldwide. In the U.S., household debt leaped from 65 percent of income in 1975 to more than 100 percent in 2001. Bankruptcies, individual and corporate, are near records.

International notes

April 17, 2003

May Day: Unions around the world demand ‘respect’ Unions from all five continents are planning actions around the common theme of respect for workers’ rights, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions said this week. The...

Iraqi war fuels increased Israeli brutality

April 17, 2003

TEL AVIV – The U.S. war in Iraq is fueling even more brutality towards the Palestinians by the far-right Israeli government. On April 13, the Israeli army stepped up its attacks on Palestinians when F-16 fighter...

U.S. military attempts to silence journalists

April 17, 2003

While the White House claims the war in Iraq is for democracy and liberation, U.S. forces have been accused of intentionally attacking a major pillar of democracy – the press. U.S. military forces launched what witnesses...

Whats really behind the trials in Cuba

April 17, 2003

At an April 9 press conference in Havana, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque presented a detailed discussion of the recent trials of Cubans charged with acting in the interest of a foreign state to harm...