International

Mozambique: Brazil pledges anti-HIV help / Dominican Republic: Union activists arrested / Italy: Metalworkers strike over pay / Bangladesh: Police attack workers / UK: Warplanes fly over Scotland

WASHINGTON – As the roster of dead and wounded in Iraq grows longer, George W. Bush is pleading that the people of this country stay the course despite admissions by his administration that the occupation has become a “long, hard slog.”

Mediante un voto oral, el Senado aprobó una enmienda al proyecto de ley que autoriza los presupuestos de los departamentos de Hacienda y Transportación, el efecto del cual es de abolir todos los fondos que el gobierno utiliza para restringir viajes de norteamericanos a Cuba.

Opinion

Did you see where Benjamin Treuhaft, a piano tuner in the U.S., is being pursued by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) because in 1994 he went to Cuba and tuned pianos there – for $1 (U.S.) each?

Britain: Mail strikers spied upon / Japan: Corporate donors get tax breaks / Mexico: Migrants send billions home / China: Moon launch next / Sub-Saharan African nations: Water emergency looms

The much-anticipated international donors’ conference on Iraq, like the United Nations resolution adopted earlier in the month, failed to help the White House out of what Newsweek’s Nov. 3 cover story calls “Bush’s $87 billion mess.”

If you are a Kmart shopper or a rancher in Montana; a mom and dad wondering about what the kids will do once they finish school; or a retiree, worried about pension and health care, the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is not for you.

By a voice vote, the U.S. Senate last week approved an amendment to the Department of Transportation bill that would strip the government of all funding for the enforcement of its much-criticized ban on travel to Cuba.

Stop violating labor rights

CHICAGO – Two U.S. trade unionists just back from Iraq say they hope their trip is the beginning of cooperation and solidarity between the U.S. labor movement and Iraq’s newly re-established unions.

The Israeli Cabinet approved and released last week a map of the wall it calls a “security barrier.”