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Andrea Arenas Al?paz and Luis G?mez
When the popular sectors of Bolivia march, there is common call and response: One of the marchers asks the contingent: “What do we want?” The response varies according to the demands of the mobilization. The demonstrators begin to call out, “When?” And then the response, “Now!” On Friday, the “now” of the popular revolt became reality. After killing more than 80 Bolivian citizens, after wounding more than 400, and receiving the rejection of more than 400 hunger strikers, S?nchez de Lozada literally flew out of his post… toward Miami.
Mahathir Mohamad
At the recent meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Countries, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Muhamad, urged the Islamic world to unite in the struggle to achieve peace with honour and justice in the Muslim world. His request was rejected. The mass media focussed almost exclusively on his controversial remarks about the political power of world Jewry, and the meeting ended without a condemnation of the occupation of Iraq, or an expression of support for the Palestinian revolt in occupied Palestine. For those who wish to go beyond the sensationalist headlines, the World Crisis Web here records his speech in its entirety.
Cicero A. Estrella
The passage of more than a century has failed to quell the passion attached to three bronze church bells that were commandeered by American soldiers as trophies of war during a bloody conflict in the Philippines.
Jim Lobe
Despite a two-week public-relations offensive designed to persuade the world and the USA public that it knows what it is doing in Iraq, the Bush administration appears increasingly at sea.
Larry Rother
Despite (maybe even because of) solid support from the USA government for the Bolivian President, Gonzalo S?nchez, it looks increasingly likely that the country will undergo a people’s revolution within the next few weeks - whether he resigns or not. The many Indian protesters who choked the streets and highways of this Andean nation again on Thursday may be poor and speak broken or accented Spanish, but they have a powerful message. It is this: no to the export of gas and other natural resources; no to free trade with the United States; no to globalization in any form other than solidarity among the downtrodden peoples of the developing world.
Medhat El-Zahed
In attempting to turn an elected president into a figurehead, then a refugee, Israel is sending a clear message to all Palestinians and Arabs. Its decision to expel Yasser Arafat, or worse, is part of a consistent policy. Since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords, Israel has been determined to turn the interim self-rule agreement into a final one. Israel has never accepted the historic compromise that Arafat hoped would come out of Oslo: a Palestinian state within the pre- 1967 lines.
Associated Press
Iraq’s USA-led authorities are preparing for a showdown with a militant Shia Muslim cleric whose ‘illegal’ militia has fought recent gun battles with both USA troops and ‘moderate’ Shia groups, Pentagon officials said yesterday.
Hadi Yahmed
In an unprecedented event, a thousand French Jews have urged to have Israeli Premiere Ariel Sharon prosecuted for his “criminal policies” against Palestinians, and supported the notion of a Palestinian state with occupied east Jerusalem as its capital.
Richard T. Cooper
The Pentagon has assigned the task of tracking down and eliminating Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and other high-profile targets to an Army general who sees the war on terrorism as a clash between Judeo-Christian values and Satan.
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