As a student of J. Edgar’s corrupt and sinister career as America’s and the world’s longest lived political police chief I must admit that I burst out laughing when it was revealed that Mark Felt, Hoover’s number two man at the time of his death and a longtime member of his inner circle, had leaked the information that eventually did in Hoover’s old political pal, Richard Nixon

An internal memo from British Prime Minister Tony Blair foreign policy aide Matthew Rycroft detailing a meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair, his top security advisors, and his Attorney General was leaked in early May and published in the British press.

US Labor Against the War has organized an unprecedented national tour of Iraqi trade unionists from June 10-26, touring two dozen cities, and providing opportunities for thousands of US trade unionists to meet and talk with representatives of Iraq’s labor movement who are fighting for a progressive, secular and democratic future.

The people have a right to know the truth. Those who wage a genocidal war in the name of a war on terrorism must not be allowed to cover up their systematic use of the most perverse of terrorist methods against the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.

I have a very clear memory of being in Catholic school, and coming back home after they’d been talking about abortion and contraception and stuff like that. So I was given a "good catholic boy" approach to those issues.

ZNLWVA(The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association) chairman Jabulani Sibanda told IRIN that he did not know of any illegal settlers among the war veterans and the poor, and claimed his organisation was only aware of multiple farm owners and illegal settlers among ministers, provincial governors, members of the ruling ZANU-PF politburo and other party organs.

"It's unfortunate that it's only the fairly high-profile emergencies, such as Darfur, Ethiopia and Eritrea, that are receiving these funds, as there is a silent emergency in Southern Africa - due to HIV/AIDS, erratic weather and weak economies - that is claiming more lives on a daily basis," World Food Programme (WFP) spokesman Mike Huggins told IRIN.

The setting up of the “Iraqi Committee for Democratic Constitution” is aimed at active participation by all Iraqi democrats, of all tendencies and affiliations, in writing the permanent constitution in Iraq, and lobby support for a number of principles...

The JCP tried hard to inform the public that it brought the construction of a wasteful complex to a halt; corrected unfair public projects in favor of a special interest group (Kaido) taking advantage of the past discrimination against a particular section of the population; proposed to cut assembly members' salaries by ten percent; and showed feasibilities of a reduction of national insurance premiums, an expansion of free medical care for children, and subsidies for housing improvement.

"...given the track record of Priscilla Owens, Janice Rogers Brown, and William Pryor, I wonder how extreme a candidate has to be before these Democrats and their seven Republican colleagues would reject them... Their acceptance invites the Republican right to push the envelope still further."

The problem facing hemispheric leaders that became fully apparent in Florida is frightening in its simplicity: how are regional governments to preserve democracy when democracy is patently not delivering the promised socio-economic benefits that have been repeatedly promised since the early 1990s?

"All across the country, the Christian right and its allies in the culture wars are mobilizing — sometimes spurred on from the top by the AFA, Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council and similar national groups, but with increasing frequency local pressure campaigns and boycott threats..."

Despite a lawsuit that challenges a labor union’s method of organizing workers at Cintas, a national uniform manufacturer and laundry company, UNITE HERE, the union involved, says it will continue to help workers fight a laundry list of labor violations and excessive exploitation by the company.

In a mostly party line vote last night, William Pryor became the third Bush judicial appointee to be confirmed by the Senate in the last week. Pryor’s confirmation was met by sharp criticism...In his activist and ideologically motivated quest to advance a far-right agenda, Pryor has used his various positions to attempt to strip and chip away at a whole range of civil rights protections.

Minister for Public Service and Administration, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, said in her budget vote speech that "we are still faced with strong divides between urban and rural, male and female, rich and poor, white and black, literate and illiterate"...Poverty also remains inextricably linked to race in South Africa. The highest incidence of joblessness is found among rural black women, with more than 47 percent out of work...

...The U.S. government wants to set the stage for a direct military intervention in Venezuela -- and that one key piece for this is to secure a condemnation of the Venezuelan government for alleged “violations of labor rights.” This would permit Bush, the No. 1 warmaker and unionbuster in the world, to claim that Venezuela is a “rogue state” that must be removed by force.

During his talk, Dr. Hevia summarized the main aggressions carried out by the United States over more than 45 years, including hundreds of acts of sabotage against industrial facilities and shopping centers; the burning of sugar cane fields; aggressions against Cuban fishing vessels, and the hijacking of Cuban sea craft.

“Asbestos is a threat to everyone, not just workers”, Ryder [General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)] said, “from children in schools, to young and old in private and public buildings where asbestos is present and to whole communities where it exists as a pollutant".

Bolivia's example is a lesson for countries in the region, because leaders and politicians are being made aware that they must respond to their people and NOT the Empire. All presidents whose primary loyalty is to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund will end up resigning, said Evo Morales [ leader of Bolivia's Movement to Socialism (MAS) ]

"Why do Bush & Co. so adamantly believe that things are improving in Iraq even as the insurgency’s “lethality” improves and casualties continue to mount? ...Maybe they think that if they keep saying, “We’re winning in Iraq,” it will come true. Well, Bush & Co. have been advertising victory in Iraq since before we invaded and yet here we are, over two years later."