It is clear that the EU Constitution is dead; but that does not mean that the guardians of the interests of European monopoly capitalism have given up on their dream of complete and untrammelled power.

Colombian President Álvaro Uribe declared a State of Limited Emergency in his country almost immediately after taking office in 2002, which provided the backdrop for his implementation of predominantly high-handed military policies intended to solve the country’s incorrigible security problems.

The PR blitz of the Bush White House on the taxpayers’ dime to "save" Social Security from running out of funds "is on life support," according to a recent article in the Washington Post. Who put the president’s plan there?

JEAN Charles de Menezes lies dead today. The 27-year-old electrician was pursued onto the Tube by gun-waving police and held down on the floor of the train while five bullets were pumped into his head.

Most of us know what it’s like to scrape to get by from paycheck to paycheck, all along knowing that whatever we have inside us that is beautiful or that we may have to offer the world has been stifled if not killed.

All publishers must be clear about one thing: their leadership has drifted away. During the past few years, controlling power of this sector shifted from publishers to booksellers...Publishers suffer another heavy blow as custom requires publishers to take back unsold books. Statistics show that in 2003 34 percent of hardcover books on American markets were eventually returned to publishers

Niall Ferguson, Herzog Professor of Financial History at the Stern School of Business, Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution (which continues to bring to global scholarship the weltanschauung of Herbert and the praxis of J. Edgar) has written for hip Marxists a campy coffee table book titled Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and Its Lessons for Global Power.

"OFFSHORING, or the outsourcing of services by developed country firms to captive units or independent suppliers in developing countries has for some time now been a source for controversy in the developed countries, especially the US."

Over 100 people, few if any of them employed by the corporate media, filled a press conference room in the US Capitol on Monday to hear artists, advocates, and experts speak against the current energy bill and against a proposal to dump the nation's nuclear waste on the land of a native American tribe in Utah.

The priest’s arrest and the recommendation made by the seven-member advisory council, which was formed under the plenary direction of the U.S. following Aristide’s February 2004 ouster and was responsible for selecting interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, dealt fatal blows to any lingering hopes for delivering an open democracy in the near future to the long-struggling island.

Job losses due to CAFTA-style policies are a major concern, but a larger problem with free trade is lower wages. According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), most US jobs will be negatively affected by reduced pay. In fact the losses in pay, despite claims by CAFTA’s supporters, will likely outweigh lower prices that may occur as a result.

Despite all of our nation's high-minded ideals about free speech, our government considers dissent an unnecessary and dangerous evil. Recent developments amply demonstrate that when it comes to our government's distaste for freedom of expression, history most definitely repeats.

The story is familiar. A poor little boy named Charlie Bucket (played by Freddie Highmore) dreams of little else other than what it is like inside Willy Wonka’s fabulous but extremely secret chocolate factory.

“No person is entitled to a seat on the Supreme Court,” said Damien Goodmon, a spokesman for StopJohnRoberts.com. “Its John Roberts’ burden to convince the Senate and the American people that his long tenure on the bench would be used to continue protecting the hard earned rights guaranteed in the constitution, not turning back the clock to a dark time without personal liberties and workplace protections. The country deserves no less.”

In the letter she said, “More than 20 years have passed and I still suffer from traumas of the incident. U.S. soldiers are walking around without restrictions as if they were the masters. As soldiers, they are learning how to kill people and are receiving training for combat against civilian populations. Governor Inamine, please dismantle the bases as soon as possible.”

Marvel Comics’ first superheroes are very much second best compared with the two film adaptations of their most popular character Spiderman. ..Anyway, it’s all a matter of merchandising - the kids demand that their parents fork out for four action figures instead of one.

Experts agreed that there is no product equivalent to this one on the market, which has proven to be effective for large and deep ulcers (third- and fourth-stage), which affect the tendons and bones of ischemic patients who up until now had no other option than the loss of the affected member.