July

Anti-Cuba Groups Involved in Massive USAID fraud

With the recognition that the Cuban-American mafia has been diverting funds for the U.S. government’s annexationist plans for Cuba for years now, Congress froze $45 million of funds allocated this year to the US Agency for International Development Cuba (USAID) Cuba program.

Indian Nuclear Scientists Object to Indo-US Nuclear Deal

At this critical juncture, when the Government is about to rush the safeguards agreement through the IAEA, there is a great deal of disquiet among the scientific community at large in this country.

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McCain Family to Make $2 Million on Cuba-related Deal

This week it was revealed that John McCain's family could make as much as $2 million on a deal with a liquor company that nearly controls the market for beer in Cuba.

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New Ad by Vets Group Slams McCain on War Policy

A new hammers John McCain on his previous statements about the Iraq war.

New Ecuador Constitution Born

The Ecuadorian city of Montecristi, headquarters of the Constituent Assembly, is celebrating the approval of a new Constitution that represents the hope for a better nation.

Why Sagging Pants are Conspicuously still in Style

They lasted longer than Bell-Bottoms (11 years), Zoot Suits (15-20 years) and if they are still being worn, you better believe it's for a reason other than fashion-related.

The Ordeal of Mohammed Omer

Everyone is familiar with accounts of courageous Russian journalists who have been assassinated and of course with stories of war correspondents who have been killed or gravely wounded in the course of reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Israeli Police Severely Beat Palestinian Man in Tel-Aviv

On Thursday, 19 June 2008, my friend Khalil Ahmad Khalil and I decided to go to Tel-Aviv at night to visit Ahmad Barghouti, a friend of ours who works at a hotel there, and hang out on the beach together.

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Free Trade and WTO’s Round of Negotiations at Doha

The WTO negotiations have turned into a fight by developed countries to open markets in developing countries to favor their big companies. The agricultural subsidies in the North, which mainly go to agricultural and food companies in the US and Europe, will not only continue but will actually increase, as demonstrated by the 2008 Farm Bill in the United States.

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Campaign Calls for Living Wage by 2010

The federal minimum wage is due to increase today, July 24, to $6.55 per hour. Passage of the increase was one of the first accomplishments of the new Democratic-controlled Congress, and the wage is scheduled to rise again next summer to $7.25.

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