Peace – Page 213 – People's World

One year after U.S. attack on Iraq: March 20 peace actions set

March 12, 2004 By Susan Webb

Beginning March 19 with nationwide lobbying of members of Congress, moving to vigils, marches and demonstrations on March 20, and culminating in a national call-in to Congress on March 24, Americans across the nation are mobilizing...

Specter of Iraq haunts Tony Blair

March 11, 2004

Iraq has become Banquo’s ghost at the feast for Tony Blair, but unlike Macbeth, this time Blair cannot see the ghost and everyone else can. Despite trying to shift the agenda of British politics back to...

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.