Alarm bells ring on food crisis
The warnings are dire: 'Imminent wars will break out due to worsening living conditions in poor countries,' UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler said recently.
Fallout from Colombia-Ecuador Border Crisis Continues to Affect Ecuador’s Military
Tensions between President Correa and top officials of Ecuador’s armed forces grew in the wake of the March 1, 2008 Ecuadorian-Colombian border crisis. An Ecuadorian civilian, Franklin Aisilla, an Ecuadorian national was killed in Colombia’s aerial bombing near the border hamlet of Angostura on that day.
Capitalism at $4 a Gallon?
If the Bush invasion of Iraq was a 'war for oil,' it has been a war for expensive not cheap oil. The crackpot assertions of Bush administration policy planners – that war would 'pay for itself' or the U.S. would take oil profits from the Iraqis as the price of their 'liberation' – aside, the price of a barrel of crude oil is today at an all time high.
McCain's Back Door Deals Shatter Ethical Facade
John McCain helped win lucrative land deals worth tens of millions of dollars for a donor who has raised more than $250,000 for McCain's presidential bid, according to a report in the New York Times, Apr. 22.
Georgia Supreme Court Denies Davis Reconsideration, US Supreme Court Allows Lethal Injections
The Georgia Supreme Court on April 14, 2008, denied Troy Anthony Davis’s motion for reconsideration of its March 17, 2008, ruling. Justices ruled last month Davis should not receive a new trial based on new evidence presented in November 2007.
Peace and prosperity
Although it is not easy to decipher the Vatican’s thinking on the thorny issues approached in a world where the president of the United States and his rich and developed allies have imposed a bloody war on the culture and religion of more than one billion persons in the name of the fight against terrorism, and where torture, pillage and conquest by force of hydrocarbons and raw materials reigns supreme
Republicans Prepare New US Election Fraud
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School has found that 25 percent of adult African Americans, 15 percent of adults earning below $35,000 annually, and 18 percent of seniors over 65 do not possess government-issued photo IDs necessary to vote.
Book Review: The Sum of Our Days
Isabel Allende's first and most famous novel, The House of the Spirits, is a family saga that also conveys an atmosphere of workers' struggle against the tyranny of the Chilean landowners.
Negotiation of Steel Plant Nationalization Continues in Venezuela
The Venezuelan government and Argentine steel company Ternium formed a joint commission in Caracas Thursday to negotiate indemnity for the nationalization of Ternium Sidor, which is controlled by the Argentine conglomerate Techint and is the largest steel company in Latin America.
Air Travel and Pollution
Environmental battles over the siting and expansion of airports are as old as the air travel industry itself, but only in recent years have the airlines themselves been under pressure to go green.
