Protect Children From Military Recruiters
Buried deep within the No Child Left Behind Act is a provision that requires public high schools to hand over the private contact information of students in public high schools to military recruiters. If a school does not comply, it risks losing vital federal education funds.
Latin America Takes a Left Turn
Left-leaning governments seek a change from free market politics. '... leftist parties are also playing an important role in state affairs as the dominant party or as the major opposition party.'
Touching Evil: Holding Hands with Uzbekistan
Last week, President Bush spoke to thousands of adoring fans in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Oil-for-food: Galloway vs. Norm Coleman
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) the GOP chair of a senate sub-committee 'investigating' the UN oil-for-food program wasn’t up to the task of interrogating British Member of Parliament George Galloway Tuesday.
“Totalitarianism” or “Bullshit”
Communists made a social revolution and made societies like Russia, Cuba, China, Vietnam, qualitatively better than they were before...Fascists provided protection for the existing ruling classes and built war machines to conquer and loot other peoples.
Japanese Peace Activists Demand Nuclear Disarmament
The Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) on May 4 submitted more than five million signatures calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons to NPT Review Conference Chair Sergio Duarte at the General Assembly Hall of the U.N. in New York
The CIA’s New Client in Sudan
'Why has the relationship between Sudan and the US shifted so suddenly, and why is the Sudanese government so interested in helping the US government hunt down extremists that it used to fund and give sanctuary to? Why is the US so ready to normalize its relationship with a country involved in a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing, as the UN calls it, or genocide, as Colin Powell called it?'
BP Faces Fines Related to Alaskan Oil Spills
While the hacks working for mainstream news organizations were busy chasing the story about the Runaway Bride late last month, a real scandal was just beginning to unfold as Congress inched closer to approving a controversial measure to open up a couple thousand acres of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration.
Banana Wars Continue – Chiquita Once Again Tries to Work Its Omnipotent Will
Now Under New Management: Likely Big Losers Will Be CARICOM’s Windward Islands
Fidel Castro Accuses Bush of Lying
In a new call for Washington to take actions against Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and other terrorists historically based on US soil, the Cuban president accused the White House of covering up the truth behind these sinister characters.
