Turks and Kurds Protest Iraq Invasion Policy
Protests erupted this past week in Turkey and Iraq over Turkey's decision to authorize an invasion of Iraq in order to fight Kurdish separatists.
Iraqi Kurds Protest Turk Decision
Hundreds of people in Arbil, the major city in the Iraqi Kurdistan, took to the streets on Thursday to protest authorization of the Turkish Parliament to conduct military operations in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq.
Turkish Attack on Iraq Would Lead to Humanitarian Crisis, ICRC warns
A humanitarian crisis will accompany any large-scale Turkish military operations aimed at pursuing Turkish-Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned on 17 October.
Venezuela on Track to Meet UN Millennium Goals
Thanks to the implementation of socially-oriented policies, Venezuela is one of the countries most likely to reach the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for 2015, government officials announced yesterday.
Dodd Ends Spying, No Senator Will Do Same for War
Senator Chris Dodd on Thursday single-handedly blocked a bill to legalize unconstitutional spying and immunize criminals who have engaged in it.
Women's Health Advocates Oppose Bush's Choice to Head Family Planning
Women's health advocates and members of Congress joined together this week to denounce Bush's appointment of anti-choice hardliner Susan Orr to oversee federal family planning programs as the deputy assistant secretary for population affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services.
Suicide Blast Misses Former Pakistan Prime Minister Bhutto's Car
Up to 110 people were killed and over 200 others injured in two suicide blasts near former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's vehicle in the southern port city of Karachi early Friday morning, local TV channel DAWN NEWS reported.
Japan: Opposition Parties Demand Halt to Refueling Operations to Aid Iraq War
In order to justify the Maritime Self-Defense Force refueling operation in the Indian Ocean, both the government and a Liberal Democratic Party Diet member in a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting on October 9 stressed that the MSDF operation is different from the U.S. use of force in Afghanistan and that the operation is necessary for Japan to secure its oil supply.
Katrina: More Than Two Years Later
Do you recall those days in August and September of 2005 when Mother Nature sent a storm that devastated the city of New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast?
123 Silent Congress Members
Over two years ago, the following 123 Democratic Congress Members did something extraordinary.