Close the Mis-named National Endowment for Democracy
Haven’t heard of the National Endowment for Democracy? Not many people have. Yet the NED is taxpayer funded and carries out foreign policy with no meaningful public oversight or transparency. In fact, it does more to undermine democracy than not.
Japan: Prime Minister Fukuda's CO2 proposal is thin and cunning
In his new climate change initiative dubbed the 'Fukuda Vision' announced on June 9, Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo failed to declare Japan’s mid-term target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
Venezuela Launches New Social Program for Poor Children
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced the creation of a new social program, known as a “mission,” which will provide treatment and rehabilitation to children in situations of drug and alcohol addiction, abandonment, exclusion, or vulnerability.
Workers take the risks the banks take the profits
As anxious banks sack staff and brace themselves for the next crash, the question being asked in the financial columns of the media is: who will be next? No doubt a very important question for the banks.
UN Security Council Acknowledges Failure to Protect People of Sudan
U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan Richard Williamson and activists testifying before the Security Council decried the international community’s failure to stop Darfur’s “genocide in slow motion” and protect the people of Sudan.
Governors Hammer McCain on Offshore Drilling 'Flip-Flop'
The George W. Bush-John McCain plan to lift the ban on offshore drilling will not lower the price of gas or put gas in your car, but it will help Big Oil. This was the consensus of three current and former East Coast governors, who announced their opposition to John McCain's proposed energy policy June 18 on a teleconference with reporters.
Legalizing Occupation: Bush’s Last Maneuver in Iraq
When US forces descended on Baghdad five years ago, they seemed unstoppable. Military arrogance had reached an all time high, and it seemed only a matter of time before the same frenzied scenario took place in Teheran, Damascus, and elsewhere.
Movie Review: The Happening
Terrorism or an act of nature? What has suddenly struck New York causing thousands of deaths and panic across the Northeast? People become disoriented, and construction workers and early morning pedestrians commit suicide en masse.
French Government Seeks Fight Over 35-Hour Work Week
There can no longer be any doubt about it: The government has chosen to fight the trade unions in order to adopt, come what may, its destructive labor plans.
Cuba: World Food Crisis Unjustifiable
Cuba reasserted here Tuesday that the international food crisis, caused by the inequality of the global economic order, is unjustifiable in a world that is capable of satisfying human food needs.
