International

                
  • War, peace and the Greens of Germany

    War, peace and the Greens of Germany

    October 3, 2007

    BERLIN — The color green is not usually associated with anger. A fair number of leaders of the Green political party in Germany lost their cool color and turned purple with rage last month. And they...

    Read more
  • Informe sobre Irak convence a poco

    Informe sobre Irak convence a poco

    September 21, 2007

    El muy esperado informe al Congreso del general David Petraeus, comandante de las fuerzas militares estadounidenses en Irak, no hizo nada para cambiar la opinión del pueblo norteamericano, cuya gran mayoría se opone a la guerra...

    Read more
  • Solidarity and Mexican truckers

    Solidarity and Mexican truckers

    September 21, 2007

    The U.S. Senate voted 75-23 Sept. 11 to ban Mexican trucks from U.S. highways. The vote rejected a Bush administration program that would allow Mexican truck drivers to operate beyond commercial zones near the Mexican border....

    Read more
  • EDITORIAL: Blackwater and privatization

    EDITORIAL: Blackwater and privatization

    September 21, 2007

    The impact of the privatization of U.S. military forces bubbled to the surface, again, when the Iraqi government announced it was revoking Blackwater USA’s operating license following an incident where eight Iraqi citizens were killed. Of...

    Read more
  • Zones of conflict: challenge to African unity

    Zones of conflict: challenge to African unity

    September 21, 2007 By Libero Della Piana

    There is a new danger plaguing Africa: zones of conflict are expanding into regional wars that take an ever-increasing human toll. In the recent past, Africa was wracked by wars for liberation from colonial rule, coups...

    Read more