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Hundred of public sector doctors and their allies were violently repressed by police and Swat teams in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, on March 12.

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In 1983, while aboard a New York subway, I noticed someone reading that day's issue of the New York Post. The front page headline screamed, “YANKS INVADE TERROR ISLAND.” It was early on in the...

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A major story about terrorism is breaking. Day by day the story is changing dramatically. On May 7, 2005, Luis Posada Carriles, one of the two most notorious terrorists in the Western Hemisphere,...
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Guy Philippe was a commander in the Haitian National Police from 1995-2000, and in February 2004 he led an armed insurgency that helped to overthrow the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Peter...

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One thing had to dawn on Bush while on a recent seven-day, five country Latin American tour: the Monroe Doctrine is deader than a doorknob. Unilaterally proclaimed by the U.S. in the 19th Century,...

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One of the most alarming things about Barack Obama...

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Keynote Presentation for "El Gran Paro Americano II" Immigrant Rights Conference, Feb 3-4 2007, Los Angeles It is an honor and a privilege to be here with you today, with the leaders and...

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Fidel Castro is a hard core revolutionary, and what he said recently about the hanging of Saddam Hussein was pretty indicative of that. At eighty years old, gravely ill, and possibly on his death...

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In the mid-1980s, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was a parish priest working in an impoverished and embattled district of Port-au-Prince. He became the spokesman of a growing popular movement against the...

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The world community calls them "Blue Helmets" or "peacekeepers," and the UN defines their mission as "a way to help countries torn by conflict create conditions for sustainable peace" by...

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Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York, NY: Crown, 2006)     Now that Barack Obama has made the obvious next to finally official by declaring a...

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S eptember 21, 2006 marked the 30th anniversary of the first car bomb ever to explode on U.S. soil. It exploded in the streets of Washington, DC killing the...

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Jean Candio has been imprisoned in Windsor, Ontario since December 13, 2006. He left Haiti in March, 2004, following the Coup d'etat which culminated in the kidnapping of democratically elected...

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Introduction Since it signed NAFTA (1994) and joined the Organization of American States, the Canadian government has more closely aligned its foreign policy with that of the United States than at...

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Testifying before the Senate immigration hearings in early July, Mayor Michael Bloomberg affirmed that undocumented immigrants have become indispensable to the economy of New York City: "Although...

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You'd think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chavez's behind. Not only has Chavez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only...

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The US-led aggression in the Middle East and the three failed attempts to oust Venezuela's Hugo Chavez since 2002 (with a fourth now planned and likely to be implemented soon) are just the latest...

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W ith Israel engaged once again in a major war of aggression in Lebanon, and protected once again from any effective global response by U.S. power and veto, it...

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In an eight-minute report (6/5/05) in which she rode in a U.N. armored personnel carrier and extolled the bravery of U.N. soldiers, NPR correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro cited "human rights...

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On July 24, 2006, World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy was forced to halt the five years of negotiating of the so-called Fourth WTO Ministerial Doha Round that began in Doha,...

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In October, elections will take place for five non-permanent UN Security Council seats to be held in 2007.  One of them will be for the Latin American seat now held by Argentina.  The two leading...

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When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the southern United States in August 2005, the authorities were overwhelmed and the governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, appealed to the...

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In June, two days before Guatemala was to officially join the U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), campesinos occupied six government-owned states to protest the...

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What do these presidential elections all have in common: Mexico, 1988, US, 2000, US, 2004, Colombia and Peru, 2006 and the just concluded Mexican election on July 2? In each case, the outcome was...

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The following essay is an excerpt from Zinn's forthcoming book, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (City Lights Books, ISBN 0-87286-475-8, www.citylights.com) In celebration of the 4th of July...

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  Dennis Bernstein/ Flashpoints: Many in the U.S. see the AFL-CIO as a huge effective union [federation] representing tens of thousands of workers in this country, which may be true and is but it...

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In early June U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick had the nerve to speak publicly against "interventionism" in Latin America at a meeting of the Organization of American States in the...

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On February 16, 2004  a group of foreign trade union officials arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, amongst them ORIT General Secretary Victor Baez, ICFTU Assistant General Secretary Mamounata...

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B etween March 10 and May 1, 2006, five million people—mostly Latino—filled the streets in over 100 U.S. towns and cities with cries for justice in...

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People who are concerned about the state of the U.S. news media in2006 might pause to consider those who have lost their lives in the midst of journalistic neglect, avoidance and bias.      We...

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The following chapter is excerpted from Anthony Arnove's new book Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal (The New Press), which features a foreword and afterword by Howard Zinn. To read more about the...

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