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June 23 – June 30, 2008 article archives
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Fidel Castro, 06/23/2008
It would seem there's no topic worthy of addressing that would not bore our patient readers, after the “Round Table” program of June 12, which dealt with the new edition of a book published in Bolivia 15 years ago, featuring now a prologue I wrote.
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Gary Tedman, 06/23/2008
The 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and its aftermath, the so-called "War on Terror," and the Iraq war, have given rise to instances of celebrated "western" figures using bigoted images of the "east."
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David Bacon, 06/23/2008
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All photos copyright David Bacon.
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The assembly of the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, one of the poorest areas in Mexico. A large percentage of the indigenous population of Oaxaca and other states has left to work in northern Mexico and in the United States.
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Alice Gordon, 06/23/2008
CompuCredit, an Atlanta-based credit firm that services usurious credit cards and loan products, which harvest fees and high interest charges off of low-income families with poor credit scores, is accused of deceiving and taking advantage of its customers.
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Ramzy Baroud, 06/23/2008
A six-year-old Palestinian girl from Gaza was killed by Israeli fire on 12 June. "Medics say the girl was decapitated by a [tank] shell," Associated Press (AP) reported the next day. The Israeli military said the soldiers opened fire in retaliation against "militants launching rockets into Israel."
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