Archive for July 28th, 2005
Here we go again.
In its strongest statement so far, the White House said on Thursday that Iran’s president-elect was a leader of the student movement that organized the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
But the United States has not yet determined whether Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was involved in the taking of hostages, a White [...]
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July 28th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Statement of Lori Wallach on CAFTA Final Vote in the House of Representatives
The CAFTA vote became a highly politicized referendum on whether President Bush would be made a lame duck, but the CAFTA debate makes clear that a dramatic shift in U.S. trade politics has occurred, and the NAFTA trade model is dead.
After losing the [...]
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July 28th, 2005
Björn Hallberg
Hypocrisy anyone?
The State Department said Wednesday Syria could face additional U.S. penalties if refuses to transfer to Iraq $262 million in funds the United States says it obtained in violation of U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iraq. Elizabeth Dibble, a deputy assistant secretary of state, told a hearing of two House subcommittees that the United [...]
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July 28th, 2005
Björn Hallberg