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Michael Karadjis Clashes between Albanians and Serbs, involving firearms, grenades and rocks broke out on March 17 in the northern Kosova city of Mitrovica. They were sparked by the drowning of three Albanian children. Tensions began in Caglavica

Doug Lorimer US President George Bush and other US officials have opposed calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese forces resisting Israel's war on its northern Arab neighbour — the third in 30 years — because, they

Doug Lorimer "An opinion poll suggests most Iraqis feel their lives have improved since the war in Iraq began about a year ago", BBC News reported on March 16. The BBC was referring to a survey of 2652 Iraqis conducted over the last six months for

Henning Melber Ever since independence in 1990, Namibia's South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) government has maintained the exploitative and discriminatory nature of the country's century of occupation by German and later South African

Doug Lorimer "The insurgency has more public support and is demonstrably more capable in numbers of people active and in its ability to direct violence than at any point in time", an unnamed "senior" US defence department official, speaking "off the

Family members of soldiers now in Iraq have become a central pillar of the US movement against war and occupation. Military families and veterans groups mobilised for a protest on March 20 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the home of Fort Bragg.

Stuart Munckton Four people implicated in violent opposition campaigns against the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez escaped from the Ramos Verde military prison on August 13. The former head of the corrupt right-wing Confederation of

Kim Bullimore Israel gunboats and air-to-surface missiles continued to pound Gaza as "Operation Summer Rain", which began on June 28, entered its 11th week. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),

Nelson Davila Within Venezuela we have always had strong solidarity movements with just struggles around the world, such as with Vietnam and Cuba. Our struggle in Venezuela is an international struggle, a struggle without borders. A central aspect

Alison Dellit "The Haitian constitution is working", US President George Bush told the media on March 1. It might seem an odd way to describe a country overrun by armed thugs and, now, foreign troops, and whose elected president has been kidnapped

Rupen Savoulian The Israeli and US ruling elites are exchanging bitter recriminations over the failure of Israel's four-week mass bombing campaign to destroy Lebanon's Hezbollah-led resistance movement. The August 16 Tel Aviv Haaretz carried an

Federico Fuentes A growing conspiracy to destabilise the government of Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, appears to be reaching a climax. On September 1 right-wing opposition deputies withdrew from the country's constituent