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March 14, 2003Turkey: Torches for peace Students, professors and workers lit torches symbolizing the light of life and peace at universities around the country on March 3, in an action organized by the Communist Party of Turkey. The...
Read moreBehind Korean crisis is a New World Order
March 14, 2003Commentary George W. Bush and White House foreign policy are following the overall strategy of establishing a “New World Order” in which U.S. imperialism will dominate the world through war and military control. The crisis in...
Read moreLabor leaders to Bush: Stop bullying Mexico
March 14, 2003Leaders of the nation’s main farm labor organizations sent a letter on March 10 to President George Bush expressing their “outrage over the heavy-handed tactics” employed by his administration against the government of Mexico. Dolores Huerta,...
Read moreTension mounts in Israel, Gaza, West Bank
March 14, 2003TEL-AVIV – The Israeli press here reports that special atomic, biological and chemical (ABC) units of the Israeli army’s engineering corps were ordered to be on “first-grade stand-by” alert. Those news reports do not call the...
Read moreShock and awe would destroy Baghdad
March 14, 2003WASHINGTON – Humanitarian groups warn of “catastrophic” civilian casualties if George W. Bush forges ahead with his “Shock and Awe” attack on Iraq in which cities will be struck with 3,000 missiles in the first 48...
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