Peace – Page 209 – People's World

Bushs war on travel to Cuba

March 5, 2004

Opinion The Bush administration has gone out of its way to make visiting Cuba almost impossible. Last May, the Treasury Department announced that it was scrapping the people-to-people travel program put in place under the Clinton...

U.S. military bases cast shadow across Japan

March 5, 2004

ATAMI, Japan – Muneyoshi Furugen has lived in the shadow of the U.S. bases on Okinawa all of his life. He speaks in a calm and deliberate manner with a small smile. Yet underneath, when he...

Iraqi women, workers say: U.S. out!

March 5, 2004 By Susan Webb

As Iraq moved to take back political sovereignty, Iraqi trade unionists and women’s organizations condemned bloody terrorist attacks that killed some 300 people and wounded many others at religious observances in Baghdad and Karbala this week.

U.S.-backed coup spurs terror in Haiti

March 5, 2004 By Mark Almberg

The ouster of democratically-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by a U.S.-sponsored coup has plunged Haiti into chaos, with right-wing death squads unleashing a campaign of terror and bloodletting against Aristide supporters across the country. Vigilantes and paramilitary...

Venezuelans rally against U.S. meddling

March 4, 2004

CARACAS – The streets of Venezuela’s capital were a sea of red on Sunday, Feb. 29, as hundreds of thousands of pro-Chávez supporters demonstrated their anger at U.S. intervention in Venezuelan affairs. After President Hugo Chávez...