Peace – Page 210 – People's World

War, capitalism, and George W. Bush

March 19, 2004

Opinion We are living in a fragile and unstable world. But perhaps that has always been the lot of humankind – certainly, it is a state of affairs as old as capitalism. Capitalism was never a...

Weapons of mass destruction: The case of Agent Orange

March 19, 2004

At the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India, this January, victims of Agent Orange, which the U.S. military sprayed over 12 percent of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, gave moving testimony of the continuing price...

Why are veterans getting sick?

March 19, 2004 By David Lawrence

America’s recent wars have killed many hundreds of American soldiers on the battlefields.

The costs of perpetual war

March 19, 2004 By David Eisenhower

The War Resister’s League estimates that in fiscal year 2005 the Bush administration’s imperial war budget will top $935 billion.

Haitians resisting U.S. occupation

March 19, 2004

Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s arrival in Jamaica this week, two weeks after he was kidnapped in Port-au-Prince and flown to the Central African Republic in a U.S.-engineered coup, has infuriated the Bush administration and Haiti’s wealthy...