The National Islamic Front is poised to renew its special place in history as a regime that has successfully deployed genocide as a tool of domestic political and security policy. It joins the Turkish government, which was responsible for the genocidal destruction of perhaps a million Armenians during World War I, and the Nigerian government, which during the late 1960s was responsible for the genocidal destruction of more than a million Ibo people in the Biafra region of southern Nigeria.

The Bush administration’s anti-Cuba policy has reached an absurd new low. The New York Times reported this past week that Major League Baseball officials are planning to fight a Bush administration prohibition on the Cuban national baseball team playing in the first World Baseball Classic in the US next March.

On Sunday, December 18, 2005, Bolivians will go to the polls to select their next president. Central to the election drama is the reality that while Washington may have overlooked the fact that the Cold War has been over for a decade and a half, policymakers are nevertheless continuing to apply its spirit in Latin America.

The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal has refused the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality permission to appeal against its determination that the way its officers were enforcing returns of failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers was unsafe.

China and Russia agreed to build the temporary dam through friendly consultations after explosions in a chemical plant in Jilin Province last month caused water pollution of the Songhua River, which joins the Heilong River downstream. China will bear the cost for the construction and demolition of the dam

"The occupation troops have resorted to excessive force, indiscriminate killing and collective punishment of the population...Iraqis have been humiliated and stripped of their basic human rights; they have been subjected to brutal and ghastly forms of torture..."

The survey, conducted Dec. 1–4, 2005, shows 49 percent of seniors are dissatisfied with the drug plan, while only 28 percent are satisfied. Another 23 percent say they still don’t know enough about the plan to offer an opinion. Among those who do have an opinion, a whopping 63 percent say they are dissatisfied...

On Dec. 1, Fr. Jean-Juste received a medical exam by Dr. John Carroll, who reported that he has swollen lymph nodes in his neck and armpits and an elevated white blood count. This could indicate any of several serious conditions, including a blood cancer or an infectious disease. It is therefore imperative that Fr. Jean-Juste be immediately released from prison so that he can receive medical treatment for his condition.

By democracy, Bush and Reagan mean capitalist democracy, where everyone is formally equal, while the class of exploiters enforces its narrow interests. Workers' democracy involves informed participation. It is open and honest about class interests and it represents the interests of the overwhelming majority.

Because we in Congress are charged with overseeing the safety of our sons and daughters when the president sends them into battle, it is our responsibility, our obligation to speak out for them. This obligation has not been met. That's why I am speaking out now.

Haiti's election dates have now been reset for the fourth time in the last five months. The Interim Government of Haiti (IGH) will now miss the February 7, 2005, deadline for transferring power that it had promised to meet for 21 months.

Haiti’s illegal government arrested Jean-Juste, a well-known activist priest and supporter of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, as he was helping to officiate a funeral on July 21 Since then he has been imprisoned - for the second time since the Feb. 29, 2004 coup against Aristide - without formal charges.

Indian leader Evo Morales could become Bolivia’s first indigenous president next Sunday according to the latest public opinion poll and to some strategic appeasement public relations in which he has been involved.

The Darfur conflict erupted in February 2003 when the rebels took up arms to fight "discrimination and oppression" by the Sudanese government. The government is accused of unleashing militia on civilians in an attempt to quash the rebellion. Some 3.4 million people have been affected

Earlier in the day, Koizumi held a meeting with leaders of the Opposition: the Japanese Communist Party, the Democratic Party of Japan, and the Social Democratic Party. JCP Chair Shii Kazuo emphasized that extending the Iraq deployment of SDF troops has no justification and demanded that the government immediately bring them home.

"This is racism and must be condemned and opposed", said the Secretariat of the Communist Party in a statement strongly condemning the riots on several Sydney beaches over the past few days.

As Zimbabwe's capital city Harare is the world's window to the country it is now a showcase of President Robert Mugabe's failure to run the government, says the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.

I think the way the Iraqi detainee torture scandal was covered -- which is the subject of my book -- is a perfect example. There were actually reports on torture right from the start, right after 9-11. But it didn't become a mainstream "story" until three years later, after the CBS report in late April 2004.

On an unusually warm day in late October, I found myself lying face-up, on a comfortable stretch of grass, between two old, flaking tombstones, in Halifax’s oldest graveyard, St. Paul’s Cemetery.

The political thriller Syriana is on my list of the top ten best movies of 2005. This brilliantly produced and powerfully written film gives us a rare and challenging peak at the politics of the Middle East and the oil interests that drive them.