Peace
Pinocchios nose and the lie factory
April 2, 2004Opinion Many years ago, Italian children’s author Carlo Collodi wrote a story about a wooden marionette, Pinocchio. This story comes to mind when people lie repeatedly – like Pinocchio, we imagine their noses growing as the...
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A heroic defense and a cruel system
April 2, 2004Opinion The Southern California grocery strikers are true working-class heroes. Seventy thousand held fast to their strike over four and a half months, a remarkable achievement in the current “jobless recovery.” Many had to find other...
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Intimidation, fraud mar El Salvador vote
April 2, 2004SAN SALVADOR – Far from being a victory for democracy, El Salvador’s March 21 presidential election made a mockery of free and democratic elections. Antonio Saca, the U.S.-backed candidate of the National Republican Alliance (ARENA), won...
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An interview with Father Bourgeois: School of Americas wall of secrecy crumbles
April 2, 2004“Hundreds of graduates from the School of the Americas have been involved in the massacre, torture, rape, and disappearance of many thousands of people throughout Latin America,” Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of SOA Watch, recently told...
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U.S. vetoes criticism of Yassins killing
April 2, 2004A resolution at the United Nations condemning the Israeli government’s extrajudicial assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was defeated in the Security Council on March 25 as a result of a U.S. veto, prompting many Palestinians to...
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