Committed Latin Americanists relished the unceremonious departure of right-wing ideologue Roger Noriega as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemispheric affairs and welcomed, by default, the promotion of Thomas A. Shannon Jr. to the post in October.

Heaps and heaps of destroyed houses, shops, offices, the only bridge, hospitals and medical care centers, walls covered with bullets shots, and election posters...empty faces with bleak looks wandering in the streets. This is the picture of Al-Qa’im after the “Steel Curtain” military operation which began on November 5, 2005 with 3,000 American and Iraqi troops participating in it.

If the accomplishments of this book could be summarized in a single statement, it would be that Ollman successfully presents Marx’s thought as a coherent unity by systematically explaining the apparent difficulties, contradictions, and various emphases in his work that have long puzzled, perplexed and even divided Marxist thinkers.

At this time, Communists in Venezuela were persecuted, and many were murdered. So the Party went to underground again. In the 1980s, Party work involved building Party clubs in the various communities. The clubs recruited individuals to the Party and worked in opposition to the oppressive capitalist government of the time.

Congressman John Conyers has introduced a bill to censure Bush, another to censure Cheney, and a third to create a select committee to investigate and make recommendations on grounds for possible impeachment. The reaction I'm hearing seems to be three-quarters enthusiasm and one-quarter concern that censuring Bush and Cheney will hurt the chances of impeaching them.

Two years ago the website “Dissident Voice” carried the above named article by Michael Parenti...It is an important article that should be brought to the attention of all PA aficionados as it sheds a lot of light on a controversial issue on the left.That issue is, of course, the so-called Chinese takeover of Tibet and the demand for Tibetan independence.

As a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, according to a letter sent this morning from AFL-CIO President John Sweeney to the full U.S. Senate, Judge Alito handed down decisions and offered dissents that reveal “a disturbing tendency to take an extremely narrow and restrictive view of laws that protect workers’ rights...

Scientists had flown in from Egypt to carry out the tests on more than a dozen samples because Ethiopia does not have the proper equipment to check for avian flu.The tests revealed that the birds had died from Newcastle disease...It does not pose an immediate danger to humans.

This past week, Bush admitted to giving a 2002 order to the National Security Agency (NSA), a super-secret, subsidiary of the Pentagon believed to be even larger than the CIA, to spy on Americans by wiretapping international phone calls and reading e-mails without warrants.

Governments that aid corporations and private wealth while at the same time undermining or dismantling programs, including research based programs that provide general education and public services are in effect robbing the people to subsidize the capitalist class.

From the failure to rebuild basic civilian infrastucture to the thousands of Iraqi detainees in US Detention Centres to the tens of thousands of civilian casualties and injuries, CPT believes that the United States and Coalition Forces war has failed to bring peace and true democracy to Iraq.

The House of Representatives has just passed HR 4437, by Wisconsin Republican James Sensenbrenner, incredibly with the votes of over 30 Democrats. It is the most repressive immigration bill in decades, and would deprive immigrants of important due process rights, divide families, criminalize undocumented status, and drive those without papers even further underground.

IN the year 2000, the UN General Assembly adopted the Millennium Declaration, in which world leaders committed to achieving a set of eight goals by 2015. Since then, these Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, have become the latest buzzword at different levels of the international development aid industry, and have spawned substantial employment generation for what are now called "development practitioners."

There is a solution that most of us are not seriously considering but should be.  We are all increasingly aware of the problem: a world that lacks peace, democracy, an equitable distribution of resources, and practices that can be sustained without risking the viability of human life.

The desperately poor country now produces about 87 percent of the global crop, the base for nearly all the heroin consumed in Western countries. The UN and the government have estimated the total export value of Afghanistan's opium in 2005 at US $2.7 billion, equivalent to 52 percent of the country's official gross domestic product.

ow it is common knowledge that there are secret courts, detention programs, searches, seizures and wiretappings of U.S. citizens without warrant based on what are essentially secret determinations of probable cause, meaning that evidence about their connection to terrorism or their involvement with any group deemed an "aid international terrorism" is kept secret.

Although no major epidemics have been reported in earthquake-hit areas of northern Pakistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, the steady increase in acute respiratory infection (ARI) in the area continues due to freezing temperature at nights and overcrowded tents, where the overwhelming majority of survivors live

One of the most popular toys this holiday season—the $120 Roboraptor—would cost three days’ wages for a parent making the minimum wage, according to congressional supporters of an increased minimum wage...The federal minimum wage has been set at $5.15 an hour since 1997 and congressional Republicans repeatedly have blocked attempts to increase it

In their reports, the international observers of these elections from the EU and the OAS declared them fair and transparent, even though there was some criticism leveled at the CNE since 41% of the voters had problems understanding the automated system. A recent opinion poll ... indicated that 74% of all Venezuelans were satisfied with their democratic system