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  • European Union — No Alternative to U.S.
    20 February 2004

    ’This is not the Europe that the world needs’
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    European Union: in no fit state to lead
    The European Union is failing to offer the world a different social and financial model to that of the deregulated United States. And the US itself is impoverished because of this lack of an alternative.
    By Robin Blackburn * Le Monde diplomatique February 2004
    European social institutions and aspirations for an independent role in world affairs are (…)

  • Ex-terrorist writer faces extradition from France
    18 February 2004

    Jon Henley in Paris
    A reformed Italian terrorist turned successful crime writer has been arrested and faces extradition from France, despite a longstanding promise that Paris would always provide a safe haven for one-time Red Brigades militants.
    The arrest last week of Cesare Battisti, who has lived peaceably and openly in the French capital since 1990, has prompted a storm of protest.
    "France offered judicial protection to these men and women," a Socialist party spokesman, Julien (…)

  • Tutu Tells Blair: Apologize for ’Immoral’ War
    17 February 2004

    by Nigel Morris
    Published on Monday, February 16, 2004 by the lndependent/UK
    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines04/ 0216-03.htm
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu will challenge Tony Blair and George Bush today to apologize for their pursuit of a counter-productive and "immoral" war in Iraq.
    In a scathing analysis of the background to the invasion, he will ridicule the "dangerously flawed" intelligence that Britain and the US used to justify a military action which has (…)

  • The Boston Social Forum, an announcement:
    17 February 2004

    Welcome to the Boston Social Forum
    On July 23-25, 2004 at the University of Massachusetts at Boston-just before the Democratic National Convention-a coalition of Boston area, progressive community organizations, non-profits, and unions will be hosting what promises to be an exciting event-the Boston Social Forum (BSF).
    A regional forum within the World Social Forum process, the BSF has been called to help progressive activists to begin to answer some very basic questions: What kind of (…)

  • Haiti’s Collapse
    17 February 2004

    By Amy Wilentz
    February 13, 2004, The Nation
    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040301&s=wilentz
    The Aristide administration, which has been overthrown once already, has been egalitarian in the lives destroyed during its time: Among its dead can be counted the president’s former friends and his foes, democrats and supporters of dictatorship. Among the victims have been policemen and prisoners and politicians; rich men and poor, journalists and slum-dwellers, human-rights (…)

  • Bush advisers discussed ’cleansing’ National Guard record
    16 February 2004

    Ex-officer: Bush file’s details caused concern;
    White House denies allegation about Guard records
    Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard.
    Washington
    WASHINGTON — As Texas Gov. George W. Bush prepared to run for president in the late 1990s, top-ranking Texas National Guard officers and Bush advisers discussed ways to limit the release of potentially embarrassing details from Bush’s military records, a former senior officer of the Texas Guard said Wednesday.
    A second former Texas Guard (…)

  • Feds Drop Subpoenas in Iowa Iraq Protest Case
    13 February 2004

    U.S. Officials Drop Activist Subpoenas
    Judge lifts Drake gag order in probe of anti-war protest
    by Jeff Eckhoff and Mark Siebert
    Published on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 by the Des Moines Register
    Federal authorities retreated Tuesday in their investigation of an Iowa anti-war demonstration, withdrawing grand jury subpoenas delivered last week to four peace activists and Drake University.
    The shift came as the investigation drew nationwide condemnation from civil liberties (…)

  • Dean’s Death
    10 February 2004

    from Blackcommentator
    http://www.blackcommentator.com/75/75_cover_dean_media.html
    Howard Dean has joined the list of victims of U.S. corporate media consolidation. Dean shares this distinction with Dennis Kucinich and the people of the formerly sovereign state of Iraq, among many others. Dean was stripped of half his popular support in the space of two weeks in January while John Kerry tied in the polls with Carol Moseley-Braun at seven percent just two months earlier u rose like a genie (…)

  • Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy
    10 February 2004

    by Michael Yates
    Monthly Review February 2004 Vol 55 no.9
    [Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. He was for many years professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He is author of Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs: Employment and Unemployment in the United States (1994), Why Unions Matter (1998), and Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global System (2004), all published by Monthly Review Press.]
    Capitalism is hundreds of years old and today (…)

  • Legal action by Vietnamese Agent Orange victims was inevitable
    9 February 2004

    February 9, 2004, Agence France Presse
    http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040208/1/3huxq.html
    Three Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange have begun legal action against manufacturers of the defoliant used by US forces during the Vietnam War, a move analysts say was inevitable given Washington’s failure to atone for its use.
    The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange, which was established last month under the umbrella of the ruling Communist Party, filed a lawsuit on their behalf at the (…)