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WASHINGTON: Last week's US-backed "regime change" in Haiti could yet backfire against the administration of President George W Bush, according to independent analysts and Democrats who are describing the US role as another major foreign-policy blunder - or worse....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 6:22pm PST
Following are excerpts from a letter being circulated on the internet:...
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 6:19pm PST
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Haitian police rounded up supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide over the weekend, and the impoverished Caribbean country's new police chief warned on Sunday the jails would be packed in coming weeks....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 6:17pm PST
The president of the Central African Republic said Sunday he will decide soon whether the exiled Jean-Bertrand Aristide can leave to return to the Caribbean, Aristide's lawyer said....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 3:40pm PST
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish voters swept the center-right government from power on Sunday in a spectacular general election upset over last week's suspected al Qaeda attack in Madrid....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 3:35pm PST
There was a fearful battle along Highway 1 on the western bank of the Tigris where Saddam's guerrillas fought off an American tank column for 36 hours, the US tanks spraying shellfire down a motorway until every vehicle - military and civilian - was a smouldering wreck. I walked the highway as the last shots were still being fired by snipers, peering into cars packed with the blackened corpses of men, women, children. Carpets and blankets had been thrown over several piles of the dead. In the...
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 2:38am PST
The Observer's David Rose hears the Tipton Three give a harrowing account of their captivity in Cuba...
Posted: Sat, Mar 13, 2004 9:44pm PST
Powell’s dirty-dealing demolishes the tattered remnants of his credibility...
Posted: Sat, Mar 13, 2004 9:42am PST
March 11, 2004-The Bush men have the Madness Touch. Their very presence warps conventional notions of reality...
Posted: Sat, Mar 13, 2004 9:39am PST
"Haiti was more than the New World's second oldest republic," anthropologist Ira Lowenthal observed, "more than even the first black republic of the modern world. Haiti was the first free nation of free men to arise within, and in resistance to, the emerging constellation of Western European empire." The interaction of the New World's two oldest republics for 200 years again illustrates the persistence of basic themes of policy, their institutional roots and cultural conco...
Posted: Sat, Mar 13, 2004 9:30am PST
Washington has been channelling hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund the political opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - including those who briefly overthrew the democratically elected leader in a coup two years ago....
Posted: Sat, Mar 13, 2004 9:27am PST
Negotiations to complete the Free Trade Area of the Americas are crumbling under the weight of injustice....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 8:49pm PST
One of the five Britons recently returned to the UK from Guantanamo Bay has claimed that he was subjected to cruel and sadistic treatment by US authorities....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 1:37pm PST
Mr Roh's election campaign was based on the promise of better relations with communist North Korea and a more equal footing with the country's biggest ally, the US....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 1:26pm PST
After supporting the overthrow of a democratically elected government, the US appointed government in Haiti is now saying there wont be elections for years? Its amazing how people can talk about "democracy" while rejecting the will of the people in favor of the will of the Bush administration....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 12:58pm PST
President Bush can breathe a little easier today, assuming he cares what Berkeley thinks: The City Council voted not to ask Congress to impeach him and Vice President Cheney. Instead, it settled for requesting a milder sanction: formal censure....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 12:54pm PST
Haiti's new prime minister comes from Boca Raton. The proposed defense minister is from Miami Shores. And the latest adviser to the new government hails from Lauderhill....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 12:50pm PST
The circumstances surrounding the demise of Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the current wave of instability in Haiti are regrettable. While one cannot overlook the seriousness inherent in the "Sunday Morning Diplomacy", or the dangerous precedent it could set for emerging democracies, one has to be careful not to sidestep the real issues affecting the vast majority of Haitians. It must begin to resonate among the Haitian people that there is very little to be gained from these frequent c...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 12:45pm PST
1. Statement by Jamaica's Prime Minister/Aristide to visit
2.. BBC: Haiti health system 'devastated'
3. Youth Reporter Phones in Story From Haiti, Pacifica
4. Ira Kurzban, Esq. raises questions about reporting of Associated Press
5. Description of recent PBS Lehrer Newshour (Senators Coleman/Dodd)...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 9:51am PST
Los pueblos Andinos contruyen, sus propios modelos de integracion, como respuesta al ALCA...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 8:37am PST