General Casey said, in a September 2005 hearing, the perception of occupation in Iraq is a major driving force behind the insurgency...A poll recently conducted -- this is a British poll reported in The Washington Times -- over 80 percent of Iraqis are strongly opposed to the presence of coalition forces, and about 45 percent of Iraqi population believe attacks against American troops are justified.

President Fidel Castro denounced that today's world is a world characterized by human selfishness and the exploitation of man by his fellow man, "a world where the gap between the wealthy few and the vast majority of poor people is ever wider, where billions of dollars are spent or rather wasted every year in the manufacture and acquisition of sophisticated weapons -- weapons that are used to kill millions of people...

"Inequality, insecurity, unemployment and poverty are a breeding ground for extremism and violence," said the successful motion. The urban violence indicates a climate of tension and feelings of exclusion and injustice among a part of the population that is too often stigmatised.

Some 43 tons of China-made bird flu vaccines have arrived in Vietnam over the past three days via three special flights, helping the country fight widespread bird flu...The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has mapped out a plan to join hands with Chinese vaccine producers [to} transfer their technologies to Vietnam.

A US-based international rights watchdog[group] criticised the ruling saying that it violated international fair-trial standards. "The outcome was predictable,” said Holly Cartner, HRW's Europe and Central Asia director. “The defendants had no chance to mount a real defence, and the court was in no way independent."

The Pentagon was caught in a lie after it was revealed that an official Army publication called Field Artillery magazine had disclosed the Army had, in fact, used white phosphorus as a weapon.

The U.S. government has now admitted its troops used white phosphorous as an incendiary weapon against Iraqis during the assault on Fallujah a year ago...We speak with columnist George Monbiot and the news director of RAI TV, the Italian TV network that produced the film "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre."

ARISTIDE and the Endless Revolution focuses on the complex period in Haiti’s history from the time when Aristide, a former parish priest, was removed from office with CIA support in 1999, up to the recent U.S. led coup d’etat in 2004 when he was once again deposed, and this time exiled to Pretoria, South Africa where he now remains.

The unnatural disaster of racism swept away the savings accounts and credit cards with which poor black people could have bought their escape. A century of Jim Crow laws barred black families in the South from certain schools and jobs. Social Security benefits were not available at first to domestic and agricultural workers, the occupations of most African Americans at that time.

Cuba has endeavored to wisely and fairly use its available computer resources as its society moves into the information era, with an emphasis on using new technology for the betterment of society...It wasn’t until 1996, when it dawned on the US government that it could use the Internet as a tool to attempt to subvert the Cuban Revolution that the island was finally allowed to access the Web

Israeli fighter jets resumed its false air raids on Thursday, breaking the sound barrier with thunderous explosion sounds over northern Gaza Strip, while Israeli occupation forces on the ground continued arresting civilians throughout the West Bank.

The tide of unresolved problems in the Russian Federation is mounting. Presidential addresses speak of high mortality, inadmissible level of poverty and problems of childhood. But these words are not backed up by real deeds.

EVIDENCE of a possible severe health issue that could result in millions of deaths and provoke incalculable economic losses was presented at an international conference in Geneva regarding avian flu and the human flu pandemic.

Those who have been to France noticed the stunning, and shocking discrepancy between one suburb and another... where neighborhoods with tennis courts and soccer courts, are near neighborhoods with nothing... It is noteworthy that some of these immigrants are third generation immigrants. Some of their grandfathers served in the French army,as in the case of one of the teenagers who was electrocuted while running from the police.

Operating with a specific worldview, driven by the profit motive, in control of the world’s wealth and the apparatus of public relations, these power elite ensure that their decisions will prevail over all others. As a result human misery perpetuates generation after generation. We must begin by rejecting their official myths and distractions. In this first act lies our declaration of independence

The deeply irresponsible comments made by Mahmood Ahmadi-Nejad, President of the regime of Velayat-e-faquih in Iran, on Wednesday October 26 about “wiping Israel off the world map” has once again put Iran in a serious political crisis.The Tudeh Party Iran, along with all progressive and democratic forces of Iran and the world, condemns this foolish and vain posturing.

The biggest rally was held at Kalaikunda air force base where the joint exercises took place. More than 1.5 million people gathered at the Kendua grass field adjacent to the air force base and started to raise tumultuous slogans against US imperialism and against the joint exercises, right from the morning until sundown. The assemblage covered the full 20 acres of the field.

Sponsored by the Cuban Peace Movement, participants concluded that the control of biodiversity is vital for Washington, particularly oil and drinking water resources of underdeveloped nations...Analysts noted that of the 737 US military bases abroad, the majority are located in a strategic arc that runs from Latin America and Africa towards Central Asia, Indonesia and Philippines.

What about Chavez? Why is he an“idiot”?...Chavez is against the trade policies of the US which tend to increase poverty and starvation in Latin America, and under the slogan of “free trade” unfairly exploit the economic weaknesses in Latin America to transfer wealth from that area of the world to the United States.

On Nov. 2, the illegal government of de facto Haitian Prime Minister Gérard Latortue filed a civil lawsuit against exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and eight others in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida “to recover money stolen from the people and Government of Haiti.”