Volume 54, Number 9 | February 2003
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c o n t e n t s » On December 19, 2002 U.S. Secretary of
State Colin Powell declared that the 12,000 page document that Iraq delivered
to the United Nations on December 7, listing its secret weapons programs
together with any dual use agents that could be used in proscribed weapons
systems, contained significant omissions. It thus constituted, in the view of
the Bush administration, a further "material breach" in Iraq's
obligations under current U.N. resolutions. All of this was meant to add to
Washington's case for waging a war on Iraq, ostensibly in order to
"disarm" it. REVIEW
OF THE MONTH On April 19, 1999, two F-18 jets mistook the navy's red-and-white checked observation post on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico for a target, and dropped 500 pound bombs on it. Vieques resident David Sanes was working at the observation post as a security guard for the navy. He was killed almost instantly. Three other men from Vieques were seriously injured. Sanes' death sparked a wave of protest-civil disobedience, marches, petitions, resolutions, and lobbying-which resulted in the promise, made by then U.S. President Clinton and reiterated by his successor, that the navy will leave Vieques by May 2003. The navy says these plans will not be affected by war on Iraq. As veterans of earlier navy promises, the Viequenses, and the people of Puerto Rico, are wary. Land and Identity
in Mexico: Peasants Stop an Airport In a three-week period in the summer of 2002, national and international attention was drawn to a fast and furious clash between forces unleashed by the globalized world economy and peasants in a small village within the larger Mexico City urban area. The Mexican federal government attempted to expropriate the peasants' land to make way for a sorely needed new international airport. The existing airport, with only two runways, was clearly inadequate. A new airport with six runways would bring the country's air transport infrastructure up to modern standards, a necessity for any country seeking to be competitive in the global economy. The peasants balked at selling their land and in the end they prevailed, seemingly against all odds. Reebok and the Global Footwear
Sweatshop Europe: On the Rise to Hegemony or Caught
in Crisis Today, as during the years shortly after the Second World War, it is commonly assumed that the global economic and political hegemony of the United States is destined to last forever. But history doesn't stand still. As other capitalist powers recouped their strength, they became active economic competitors and made inroads in the dominance of U.S. industry, trade, and finance. Moreover, the recovered war-torn powers eventually shattered a key factor of U.S. leadership, forcing the abandonment of the dollar-as-good-as-gold provision of the Bretton Woods agreement. CORRESPONDENCE Many friends have written to me since the victory of "Lula" da Silva, elected as Brazil's president. I thank you all. We need your good wishes, and especially we need your continuing vital opposition to the U.S. government's aggression. BOOK
REVIEW A review of People's Power: Cuba's Experience With Representative Government by Peter Roman.
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