聯Deaths and injuries are soaring in Sadr City as US troops increase their military and economic pressure聰 on the Iraqi capital聮s huge Shiite slum district, the English-language website of Baghdad Azzaman daily reported on May 5.
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Below is a statement from the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. Visit http://space4peace.org.
Originally published in Liberation, the magazine of the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist Liberation. A longer version can be found at the socialist e-journal, Links, http://links.org.au.
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
By Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes
Allen Lane, 2008
311 pages, $32.95 (pb)
By Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes
Allen Lane, 2008
311 pages, $32.95 (pb)
鈥淚f the government cannot lower the cost of living it simply has to leave鈥, a demonstrator said in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 鈥淚f the police and UN troops want to shoot at us, that鈥檚 OK, because in the end, if we are not killed by bullets, we鈥檒l die of hunger.鈥
Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro proposed that Latin American countries create a food bank to counter food supply problems and that oil profits of the region go towards a new food fund. Maduro made the proposal during the Food summit held in Nicaragua on May 7.
A day of violence, fraud and a 鈥済rand rebellion鈥 against the Santa Cruz oligarchy.
Below is an abridged April 30 Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) article. Visit http://cispes.org.
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