By Howard Zinn The following are excerpts from A People’s History of the United States … the mountain of history books under which we all stand leans … so tremblingly respectful [in the direction] of states and statesmen and so… Continue Reading
By Katherine Stapp* – Tierramérica NEW YORK, Jun 30 (IPS) – Growing international demands to suspend the use of cluster munitions, which scatter hundreds of small ”bomblets” over a wide area and are blamed for thousands of civilian deaths around… Continue Reading
The British transfer of sovereignty in the 20s was equally meaningless Haifa Zangana Tuesday June 29, 2004 The Guardian In Iraq, we have an expression: same donkey, different saddle. Iraq’s long-heralded interim government has now formally assumed sovereignty. Official labels… Continue Reading
By Mario de Queiroz LISBON, Jun 29 (IPS) – The spirited Maoist student leader at the University of Lisbon, José Manuel Durão Barroso, never imagined during the turbulent years of the Portuguese revolution that three decades later he would become… Continue Reading
By Julio Godoy PARIS, Jun 28 (IPS) – The kind of torture inflicted upon Iraqi prisoners by the U.S. army followed methods France used during the Algerian war of independence in the late 1950s, several French historians and journalists say.… Continue Reading
By Moyiga Nduru JOHANNESBURG, June 25 (IPS) – A devout Muslim with beard, flowing gown and prayer cap folded his arms as a female participant reached out to shake his hand. They ended up exchanging verbal greetings. On the opposite… Continue Reading
COMMENTARY By Michael Ventre MSNBC contributor Updated: 3:22 p.m. ET June 23, 2004What “Fahrenheit 9/11â€? represents, more than anything else, is the promise or threat — depending on how you look at it — that Michael Moore will get an… Continue Reading
By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, Jun 24 (IPS) – Independent human rights experts are asking the United Nations to send an urgent mission to Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo, the U.S. enclave in Cuba, to monitor humanitarian conditions and legal status of… Continue Reading
Updated: 3:31 p.m. ET June 24, 2004 WASHINGTON – U.S. Central Command has asked the Army to prepare for the possibility that an additional 25,000 troops may be needed in Iraq if the security situation there continues to deteriorate after… Continue Reading
By Moyiga Nduru BENONI, South Africa, June 23 (IPS) – Young South African women are being given false job offers to lure them into prostitution in Macau, a former Portuguese colony now under Chinese control, says the International Organisation for… Continue Reading
Threat to Kerry may grow this weekend at party’s convention Dennis Cook / AP file Green Party activist Peter Camejo explains Monday why he is serving as Ralph Nader’s running mate. By Tom Curry National affairs writer MSNBC Updated: 12:35… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jun (IPS) – While more than 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq continue trying to impose security in advance of the Jun. 30 handover of limited sovereignty to the new Iraqi administration, the security situation in nearby… Continue Reading
A MESSAGE FROM BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN A few weeks ago at N.Y.U. Al Gore gave one of the most important speeches I’ve heard in a long time. The issues it raises need to be considered by every American concerned with the… Continue Reading
By Stefania Bianchi BRUSSELS, Jun 21 (IPS) As European Union leaders mull over the successes of last week’s European summit in their home countries, an even tougher task lies ahead convincing a sceptical electorate to agree. European Union (EU) leaders… Continue Reading
Quito/Brussels — The EU needs to engage more deeply and effectively in the increasingly unstable Andean region. Better recognition and understanding of Andean countries’ problems is needed so that Brussels and the member states can act in a way that… Continue Reading
The Long-Awaited Return Home By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, Jun 17 (IPS) – The number of refugees and others attended by the United Nations refugee agency fell dramatically in 2003 to 17.1 million people, the lowest total in a decade, according… Continue Reading
Conventional versus Emergent Alternative Wisdom By David Korten An important starting point in any discussion of sustainable development is to clarify the basic assumptions we each bring to the table. While the views on sustainable development cover a broad spectrum,… Continue Reading
Maputo, 17 Jun (AIM) – Despite the recent impressive rise in the literacy rate, the vast majority of Mozambicans never buy a newspaper. This hard fact is made brutally clear by the report for 2003 from the board of directors… Continue Reading
World Bank Shifts Sights From 2015 to 2050 By Julio Godoy PARIS, Jun 17 (IPS) A focus on the Millennium Development Goals can be counterproductive, a senior World Bank economist told IPS in an interview Thursday. Intense measures to meet… Continue Reading
Susan Gray Last Friday, two days before the 3rd European Documentary Film Festival in Oslo, Norway, Film Institute (NFI) director Vigdis Lian announced that Citizen Berlusconi, a 56-minute documentary on Italy’s prime minister, would not be shown at the event.… Continue Reading
