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Stop CAFTA, Stop the FTAA! In the face of growing opposition from developing countries in
multinational forums such as CAFTA and the FTAA, the Bush administration is now turning to an
emphasis on bilateral trade deals in an effort to bully our smaller Central
American trade partners into accepting painful concessions on trade....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 12:17pm PST
U.S. and France Kiss and Make Up, Haitian Democracy Dies Leave it to the New York Times to turn the bloody overthrow of a democratically elected President into a veritable love story. In an article published on March 3 entitled "U.S. and France Set Aside Differences in Effort to Resolve Haiti Conflict" the newspaper of record reported that "the joint diplomacy over Haiti is a dramatic example of how the longtime allies can set aside differences, find common ground, play to their strengths and even operate in an atmosphere of trust.&q...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:47am PST
HAITI: Washington was behind `coup’ says Aristide “The Haitian constitution is working”, US President George Bush told the media on March 1. It might seem an odd way to describe a country overrun by armed thugs and, now, foreign troops, and whose elected president has been kidnapped and spirited away. But what Bush meant was that the Haitian constitution is now working to the benefit of Washington's elite....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:45am PST
Haiti: Washington's Tar Baby Aristide is not the first Haitian leader to have been kidnapped by the US. In 1915, they arrested and exiled (to Jamaica) Dr Rosalvo Bobo, who was not only a noted physician but also the leader of the Haitian majority party, and was scheduled to be formally elected as president by the Haitian Parliament....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:43am PST
Before fall of Aristide, Haiti hit by aid cutoff WASHINGTON -- For three years, the US government, the European Union, and international banks have blocked $500 million in aid to Haiti's government, ravaging the economy of a nation already twice as poor as any in the Western Hemisphere....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:41am PST
Revealed: Shocking new evidence of the dangers of GM crops Genetically modified strains have contaminated two-thirds of all crops in US...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:11am PST
National Conference of Black Lawyers Blasts Kidnapping of Aristide NCBL stands firmly in support of President Aristide, and we offer our full support to those courageous members of the Congressional Black Caucus and others who have dared to defy the U.S. political establishment and expose the lies of the Bush Administration and its lackeys in the corporate mass media....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:08am PST
3/6 AHP News on Haiti Guy Philippe’s rebels are still armed; supporters of the platform and Lavalas
supporters are getting ready to demonstrate...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:03am PST
Hope, out of Ramallah: The rise of the Palestinian alternative Palestine eNews, a service of Canadian Friends of Sabeel, interviewed Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, during a Canada-wide tour, before carrying his message to the United States next week. Launched in 2002, the Palestine National Initiative (PNI) is a democratic Palestinian opposition movement that calls for a just and durable peace...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 8:34am PST
McDonald's 'no-Arabic' policy at its restaurants in Israel; Employee Fired McDonald's Corporation confirmed that it has a policy banning its employees from speaking Arabic in its restaurants in Israel, despite the fact that Palestinian citizens of Israel form 20% of its workforce, and Arabic is one of the two official languages of Israel....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 8:28am PST
Yoda's Apocalyptic Visions "In a shocking study, one of the sharpest thinkers of the Pentagon warns that climate changes endanger the security of the US more than terrorists.. The Gulf Stream loses power, changes its direction and suddenly completely collapses.."...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 5:42am PST
HAITI: Another US foreign policy tragedy THE UNITED States has registered yet another foreign policy tragedy in a long series of such episodes in the world, particularly in the Latin American region, long considered its sphere of influence....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 11:02pm PST
Aristide Again Says He Was Kidnapped from Haiti MIAMI (Reuters) - Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says his departure from his country was a "kidnapping" as heavily armed "white men" surrounded the National Palace, according to a statement released on Saturday....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 11:00pm PST
Defeat for Democracy: Haiti and the US PRESIDENT Jean-Bertrand Aristide's exile from Haiti represents a defeat for democracy and a victory for the island's brutal elite, supported by the US Republican right....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 10:59pm PST
Power Shift In Haiti Puts Rights at Risk Within his imperfect democracy, however, sprouted the beginnings of a government that was more responsive to Haiti's poor and willing for the first time to take on difficult human rights prosecutions -- at least against its enemies. Now those tentative openings may disappear as the political power shifts back from Aristide's mostly poor followers to a group of former military officers, traditionally the enforcement arm of Haiti's economic elite, who have reentered politics at the head of a re...
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 10:56pm PST
Aristide supporters plan Haiti backlash PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Anger is simmering among supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the Port-au-Prince
slums nearly a week after he fled to Africa....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 12:18pm PST
Haiti: Amnesty Int list of mass murderers Amnesty International has provided a list of convicted
mass murderers overtly present in the new Haiti military
junta, or released from prison in the last few days, since
they are friends of the military junta....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 8:26am PST
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Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 7:48am PST
SOS..Jammed Signal..Please Relay Signal Message Please send the message here to the UK. My signal is being blocked overseas. I fear the US is at the brink of War....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 5:49am PST
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