Any government sensitive to the people’s woes would have immediately sought to redress the people’s grievances. Not so, however, with the BJP. Mounting fresh economic assaults on the people, while seeking to sharpen communal polarisation, has become the recipe of BJP’s governance.

"I TOLD the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims, did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11."

The Exorcism of Emily Rose is about mental illness left untreated. Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) is a young woman with a complex of serious but treatable mental disorders that cause her to hallucinate, convulse, and mutilate herself. She has all medical care withheld from her on advice of her family priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson), who is convinced that she is possessed by demons.

The day after Bush signed the executive order that allows contractors awarded federal money to help rebuild the Hurricane Katrina devastated Gulf Coast to pay substandard wages to construction workers, the U.S. Department of Labor waived most federal affirmative action laws for contractors.

The democratic consolidation in Brazil cannot be achieved without attacking corruption head on...Since the abuse of power serves the interests of the powerful and the rich, to the detriment of the poor, widespread corruption, in turn, worsens the level of inequality.

For days, I've wrestled with a rank despair born of a president's non-response to a devastating hurricane in New Orleans and of presidential indifference to an endless, immoral war in Iraq. I am nauseous from the undisguised, ugly neglect of the American ideal by those entrusted to protect and defend it. And I no longer know what to say or do.

Makhmud, in common with many other Uzbeks from Andijan living clandestinely across the border since the blood-letting, said he feels he is on the run and still shudders at every knock on the door of the house of his relatives - where he stays...Local Kyrgyz people said they had been offered bribes by Uzbek police looking for the exiles.

The weekend arrest in Melbourne of US peace activist Scott Parkin exposes the potential for abuse inherent in the Howard Government's anti-terrorist laws. At a time when Australians are already deeply concerned about the Howard Government's attacks on free speech and the right to protest in the name of fighting terrorism, the silencing of a peace activist for the `crime' of satirising US policy will only confirm many people's worst fears." said Greenpeace Australia Pacific spokesperson Dan Cass.

Mexico has become China's second largest trading partner in Latin America after Brazil. Bilateral trade exceeded 7 billion US dollars in 2004, 44 percent higher than the previous year, and China's investment in Mexico rose to nearly 200 million dollars.

We shall patiently await a reply, for as many days as necessary...We shall feel satisfied for having complied with our duty and extremely happy knowing that no other American, of the many that suffered the painful and perfidious scourge of hurricane Katrina, shall perish from lack of medical care, if that were the reason our doctors were not there.

With the federal government poised to spend more than $50 billion to rebuild areas destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, the AFL-CIO is calling on Congress to reverse President George W. Bush’s Sept. 8 executive order that would allow contractors to pay substandard wages to construction workers in the affected areas.

The police chief during these operations was Léon Charles..So where is Charles today? He is the de facto government's Chief of Security and Arms Procurement at to the Haitian Embassy in Washington D.C. with an annual salary of $150,000... He is also being rewarded for overseeing the massacre of Lavalas supporters during peaceful demonstrations.

The Bush administration's failure to respond rapidly and adequately to the catastrophe after Hurricane Katrina earned it much deserved criticism. But the administration did respond quickly to requests by its large donors and corporate backers to push on with its ultra-right agenda.

Three holocausts in four years with a balance of over 20,000 dead, billions of dollars in allocations for the crusade against terrorism and the failing war effort in Iraq, is what George W. Bush has to show in 57 months as President.

THE havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina last week in the USA’s Gulf of Mexico region, and the response by the US government in terms of preparedness, rescue and relief, has shocked not only the people of the United States but also all other countries who have watched in disbelief as the world’s richest nation was seen floundering in the face of a natural disaster.