Cuba on Hurricane Katrina – Solidarity Despite Bush Administration Hostility
The Cuban Parliament expressed on Thursday deep sorrow and solidarity with victims of hurricane Katrina in the United States. The storm severely hit the city of New Orleans, that is in total chaos and lawlessness on Friday, as well as other towns and localities of the states of Louissiana and Mississippi. The dead are counted by the hundreds.
Labor’s Smaller Share
This Labor Day marks yet another year of decline in the living standards of U.S. workers. The downward trend in real wages has continued for so long that workers no longer expect an annual wage increase. And the assault on benefits is now so entrenched that many workers don’t receive or expect to receive basic benefits.
Hurricane Katrina: Venezuela Offers $1M, Oil, Food and Equipment for U.S. Victims
CITGO Petroleum Corporation has pledged a $1 million donation towards Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, the company’s President and CEO Félix Rodríguez announced yesterday through a press release.
DARFUR MORTALITY UPDATE: from violence, malnutrition, and disease
Building on fourteen previous assessments of mortality in Darfur, the present analysis argues that conflict-related deaths since the outbreak of major hostilities in February 2003---from all causes---now exceed 370,000.
Overthrowing US dominance
A seismic shift is steadily taking place in world affairs as the major Asian countries strengthen their political, economic and military relations creating the potential for a counterbalance to unfettered US military power, of the sort that has not existed since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1990.
