President Torrijos was voted into office in 2004 on a pledge to root out ubiquitous venality and underhanded activity that had eroded the people’s faith in his predecessor, Mireya Moscoso...Since his inauguration, the Torrijos administration has not prosecuted a single member of Moscoso’s wildly polluted administration, nor have serious investigative efforts been undertaken to thoroughly explore the matter.

[Rumsfeld] echoed claims made earlier by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is a destabilizing force in the region and had been “unhelpful[ly]” involved in the recent political turmoil in Bolivia. Yet thus far, neither Rice nor Rumsfeld have presented the slightest shred of evidence to support their assertions that Chávez was involved in the ouster of Bolivian President Carlos Mesa.

Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, is suffering from drought and locust infestation. The UN asked for $16 million to avert disaster. The world, including the United States, turned a deaf ear... The result is that now 3.5 million people, including 800,000 children, are in danger of dying. Finally, some aid is flowing after CNN and other media have shown the horrid consequences of the famine – the emaciated bodies of dying children.

In 1876, Marx's collaborator, Frederich Engels, offered a prophetic caveat: "Let us not . . . flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human conquest over nature. For each such conquest takes its revenge on us. . . . At every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside of nature--but that we, with flesh, blood, and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst. . . ."

Cindy Sheehan has raised the right question:  For what noble cause did her son die? Were the reasons Bush gave Congress for why the war was necessary truthful ones?  What did Bush tell Tony Blair three and a half years ago when he invited him, unlike Cindy, in out of the Texas sun?

The exercises, which are staged on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of World War II, neither aim at any third party nor concern the interests of any third country and will pose no threat to any country, said Liang Guanglie, chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, at the opening ceremony.

“The regulations fail in their obligation to ensure collective bargaining rights to DHS employees,” U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said in her Aug. 12 ruling on a lawsuit filed by AFGE and other federal employee unions. The coalition of federal unions was instrumental in working to stop the implementation of the new rules, which would have slashed employees’ bargaining and workplace rights and civil service pay scales.

"There are no legal arguments to retain them," said Weinglass, who is one of the defense attorneys. "The next step should be to release them from the high-security prisons where they have been held in violation of US law," he added.

Eleven years into our democracy, the demon of racism is still stalking our land. It is one of the biggest challenges facing the trade union movement. Evidence of its continued existence can be found in both official reports and the daily experience of our members

The Lavalas Family party (FL) of exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristide has registered to participate in Haiti’s occupation-run nationwide elections scheduled for later this fall, much to the dismay of the party’s popular base.

The UN World Food Program, as well as its implementing partners in the humanitarian community, is currently attempting to respond to the food needs of 3.5 million human beings in Darfur. The number of conflict-affected persons is even greater if we consider those who need medical and other humanitarian assistance.

Question: How is Howard Dean like the Bible? Answer: There is no position for which you cannot, with a little research, find both support and opposition in the pronouncements of Howard Dean.

Members of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), the right-wing group of vigilantes who have been pinpointed for most of the country's on average 4,000 politically motivated killings per year and with whom Uribe has some personal and family ties, will be safe even from prosecution in U.S. courts because the Bush administration surrendered its right to seek their extradition at the behest of Uribe.

Tran Doc Loi remains confident in the future prospects of socialism. I sat down with Tran, who chairs the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the youth wing of Vietnam’s Communist Party, after his presentation at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students.

America is indeed approaching a spiritual death. Our dark cabal of Neocon leaders, several of whom have held positions of great power under Reagan, Bush I, and now Bush II, are perpetuating unrestrained expansion of the American Empire while utilizing Orwellian propaganda to convince its subjects that they are still living in the "land of the free".

The three judge panel reversed the convictions and sentences, and remanding them to a new trial on the basis that they would never get a fair and impartial trial in Miami, where they were sentenced to harsh terms from 15 to double life imprisonment.

The country is experimenting with a slow but steady anti-capitalist restructuring which the private media see as a threat to their existence. At this juncture, after surviving a military coup, a 63-day oil stoppage-sabotage (the oil coup) and a presidential referendum--all backed by the private media-- President Hugo Chavez is encouraging the formation of public and community media to counteract attacks on "the process" by the private media.

The most recent round of economic reports points to higher growth in all parts of the economy except one: wages. Wage increases are weak and are forecast to remain low in 2006.

Bush ignored a reporter's question of what would happen if the Iraqis missed their deadline. For Bush and his fellow war-mongers, the notion that the Iraqis might not be able to overcome their differences before the Fifteenth is simply beyond the realm of possibility.

The whole notion of Bush as a straight-shooting man of integrity is nothing more than a fabrication, a facet of his cult of personality. As with the depictions of Bush as cowboy, military veteran, common man, and Washington outsider, Bush the honest is a well-cultivated fiction...Bush's claim of integrity is about as real as the Democrats' claim of offering a meaningful alternative to the Republicans.