At first sight it is little more than a poetic polemic about the virtues of an effective leader. But a poem has been removed from school textbooks in Pakistan after it became clear that the first letter of each line spelt out "President George W Bush".

The forces of obscurantism and terror that carried out this crime are deeply hostile to our Party and scared by its prestige and consistent struggle for the prosperity of people and freedom! g2057 of the homeland

The Government of Uzbekistan has kicked the US Air Force out from its base in that country...The US claimed that the base was necessary to conduct its "war against terrorism" in Afghanistan.

George Bush and his lying bunch of criminal neocons deceived the world into an illegal and immoral invasion of a country that was no threat to the USA. My oldest, dearest son is dead because of their lies. Give me back Casey and I'll pay your damn taxes.

An important impediment to the effective prosecution of perpetrators is a mandatory form...women are required to fill out in the event of a rape before being attended to by police or medical personnel.Aid workers said the sensitive nature of GBV makes women reluctant to fill in the form. Many of them therefore do not report the crime or receive timely medical treatment.

The White House and congressional leadership could not be doing a better job of enriching the wealthy while picking the pockets of working families and the poor. They’re trying to cut $50 billion from such critical programs as Medicaid, health care, student loans ...

Residents of the Gabonese capital, Libreville, awoke to a city teeming with security forces on Friday, one day after police clashed with crowds protesting the election that put Africa’s longest-serving leader in power for another seven years.

Cuba´s Revolutionary Armed Forces, born after the Granma yacht landed in 1956 with Fidel Castro and 81 combatants on board to start the Cuban Revolution, are celebrating Friday their 49th anniversary.

Warmer sea water means there is more energy to power hurricanes, and the computer-predicted increase in such "extreme events" with global warming seems to be coming true.

We believe the main direction of the current century continues to be that of the transition from capitalism to socialism. The appearance of the first socialist state, the struggles and gains of the working class and its allies, the achievements of socialism, the spread of revolutionary ideology and the defeat of European fascism were monumental accomplishments of the past century.

In the 1930's, when I was but a child, my aunt was married to a travelling evangelist who presided over camp meetings and she was very proud of his work. She loved telling me of his "miracles" of healing, saving souls, and casting out demons.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez blamed United States president George W. Bush for the opposition boycott to this Sunday’s congressional election describing the situation as a new US conspiracy against his government.

For the past six years we have witnessed how, in the midst of great adversity, millions of Venezuelans have taken their destiny into their own hands and worked together to achieve the construction of a society rooted in the values of solidarity, democracy and social justice.

Palecek's "irreverent" novel is a potent attack on almost everything which is perverse, depraved, immoral, and malevolent about the US government and the society which it creates and perpetuates (through the public education system and its subservient corporate media).

Max Fuller has written the most disturbing and thought provoking article of the year. In his “Crying Wolf: Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied Iraq”, (Global Research) Fuller painstakingly lays out the details and documentation to prove that the United States intelligence agencies are behind the vast incidents of murder and torture being carried out in Iraq today.

"THE United States is simply not responsible for everything that occurs in Venezuela," says William Brownfield, Washington's ambassador to Caracas. This is the standard line that US diplomats trot out when they are in the frame over attempts to destabilise progressive governments.

The Japanese government is planning to pay the costs necessary for constructing a new U.S. base in Guam to relocate 7,000 U.S. Marines from Okinawa. Japan already pays 600 billion yen that covers most of the costs of stationing U.S. forces in Japan.

Joe Lieberman, esteemed senator from Connecticut and former vice presidential candidate, smokes crack, in large amounts and on a regular basis. I am in possession of reams of secret evidence confirming this claim, but unfortunately cannot make it public because it might reveal crucial methods and sources to America's enemies.

We underline the fact that the US, which are the biggest world producer and owner of the weapons of mass destruction conduct more and more aggressive policy and start tensions in international relations. By introducing "prevention war" doctrine and label in arrogant way their political opponents "rouge states", American war machine creates growing threat to world peace.

Globalisation, as the present phase of world capitalist development is known as, is a development that can be understood mainly on the basis of the internal laws and the dynamics of the functioning of the capitalist economic system.