Sep 28, 2002

News Analysis


TEL AVIV – The latest acts of state terror against the Palestinian people and their elected leadership last weekend have awakened a fury of mass protests by Palestinians and have met sharp criticism and protest actions in Israel and around the world.

TRIVANDRUM, India – Widespread protests forced the Kerala state government to cancel steep power rate increases last month. It was the second time the government was forced to back down on increased meter charges and imposed line rent on consumers. The hefty increase in tariff ranged between 40 and 140 percent.

LA HABANA (Prensa Latina) – La crisis financiera que hasta hace poco tenía como principal víctima a la Argentina, se expandió con fuerza en los últimos seis meses por la amplia geografía sudamericana, infestada sin contemplación por el virus del neoliberalismo.

News Analysis


The stakes in the 2002 elections couldn’t be higher – nor the outcome less certain, with 47 seats in the House and nine in the Senate seen as “toss-ups.” But we’ve learned one thing: Beware the racist politics of division and “wolves in sheep’s clothing” as Nov. 5 approaches.

Opinion


There is a long list of right-wing Republican stuff that I really don’t get.

CONDADO IMPERIAL, California – Trabajadores de atención en la casa en el Condado Imperial celebraron una enorme victoria en su lucha hacia el respeto y la dignidad que les corresponde. El pasado miércoles, 17 de septiembre la Junta de Supervisores (legislatura) del condado Imperial por unanimidad, aprobó un decreto legal de empleador oficial y una resolución cual describe la relación entre el nuevo empleador y los nuevos empleados.

It was the last full weekend in August. Finally, we heard that four members of our family were granted visitor status at the Federal Correctional Institute McKean in Bradford, Pa.

The World Bank’s origins go back to the Bretton Woods conference of July 1944, when leaders from 43 nations assembled to start building the global economy in the aftermath of World War II. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, hoping to avoid another worldwide depression, called for creation of institutions that would create “a dynamic world community in which the peoples of every nation will be able to realize their potentialities in peace.”