Movie Review: Brokeback Mountain
Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) is a penniless ranch hand looking for summer work to save money for his upcoming wedding to Alma (Michelle Williams). An unscrupulous boss (Randy Quaid) hires him with Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) to herd sheep on Brokeback Mountain.
Cote D'Iviore(W.Africa): New government announced after weeks of haggling
After weeks of negotiations war-torn Cote d’Ivoire’s new prime minister has formed a transitional government that has 10 months to reunite the country, disarm fighters and hold presidential elections.
Rumsfeld Admits to 'Ghosting' Detainee
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that he 'ghosted' a detainee, meaning that he made the decision to hold a prisoner without keeping any records of the fact... the Director of the CIA told him not to register a prisoner with the Red Cross...he obeyed, and several months later the prisoner was still not registered.
The Republican Tax Cut Scam
It is common wisdom on the political right that tax cuts stimulate economic growth. President Bush and the Republican-dominated Congress insist that the nearly $900 billion in tax cuts (overwhelmingly aimed at the nation’s richest households) enacted since 2001 have saved the country's economy from deeper recession.
2006: The Year the Chickenhawks Will Go Home to Roost- Cindy Sheehan
We as Americans said 'enough is enough.' We sacrificed a lot when we showed up in DC and other cities around the country in the hundreds of thousands to protest against and show that we withdraw any consent to be governed by murderous thugs.
Guinea: Ruling party wins landslide in pivotal local elections
The poll was closely watched by the international community, which has been highly critical of Guinea in the past over a perception of corruption and lack of democracy.The West African nation – one of the world’s poorest despite its wealth of water and mineral resources – has a history of polls marred by violence and boycotted by the opposition.
Over the Edge: The Year in Sports 2005
Last December I wrote the following: '2004 should be remembered as a year when the hermetically sealed divide between sports and society frayed for the first time in a generation... I cannot wait to see what 2005 has in store.
Book Review: A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut, at age 82, has published over two dozen books. His latest is called 'A Man Without a Country.' It's a book that is brutally honest in its hopelessness, in fact – I think – overly hopeless, and yet humorous.
Chile communists to back Bachelet
Chile’s Communist party pledged yesterday to back presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet in a tight run-off in January against a rightist alliance... Bachelet narrowly missed becoming Chile’s first woman president in December elections when she failed to win more than 50 per cent of the vote over three other candidates.
Cubans Celebrate 47th Anniversary of Socialist Revolution
The island closes 2005 on an upbeat with a spectacular 11.8 percent GDP growth. Higher salaries and pensions, new education, public health, social security and power generation programs, and the pride of Cubans to be able to offer growing assistance to nations on several continents are part of the general optimism.
