An enormous humanitarian crisis is emerging in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Katanga Province, with tens of thousands of people being displaced, but so far the government and the international community are doing little.

The National Lawyers Guild reiterated its opposition to Judge Samuel Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court today and said that the ABA decision declaring Alito “qualified” for the position did not address the most significant questions before the Senate.

President Nixon famously said that if the President does it, it's legal.  And he didn't think that up on his own – that's a way of thinking that has long had currency in America. 

December’s three-day strike by the 33,700 members of New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 was a victory for the workers as they turned back significant pension cuts for future employees. And that victory comes at a time when corporations and state governments are freezing and eliminating pension plans for tens of thousands of workers.

Did you know that about $44 of every $100 you spend in locally-owned businesses gets recycled back into your community? In comparison, when you spend the same amount of money at a national (or multinational) retail chain store like Wal-Mart, only about $14 goes back into your community.

Ukraine can only produce 16 percent of its domestic demand and the rest must be imported from Russia and Turkmenistan, while 80 percent of gas Russia exported to Europe must be transported via pipeline in Ukraine, which accounts for more than 20 percent of total European consumption.

Posada Carriles is an infamous Cuban-born terrorist and a major collaborator with Miami-based mafia groups. He has also been a key organizer of terrorist actions against Cuba. Posada participated in the 1976 mid-air bombing of a Cuban airliner off the coasts of Barbados; all 73 people on board died.

Health officials have said that the number of acute respiratory infections in the former Soviet republic of 5.1 million is unacceptably high and shows no sign of decreasing, especially among infants and young children.

ETAN advocates for democracy, justice and human rights for East Timor and Indonesia. ETAN calls for an international tribunal to prosecute crimes against humanity committed in East Timor from 1975 to 1999 and for continued restrictions on U.S. military assistance to Indonesia

Senate hearings on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court are scheduled to begin next week. Critics of President Bush's nomination of Alito say that Alito is an activist judge whose opinions are motivated by right-wing ideology rather than concern for the Constitution and legal precedent.

Anyone searching for job security shouldn't look for a career in NFL coaching. A full one-quarter of coaches have been canned including Oakland’s Norv Turner, New Orleans’ Jim Haslett, and a myriad of Mikes...

The nation watched with horror as we learned of the 12 deaths in the mine explosion in Tallmansville, W.Va. Our hearts sank with the grief of the miners’ families, compounded by the tragically erroneous reports that most of their loved ones had survived.

According to the 4 January edition of government daily Al-Ahram, the foreign ministry had begun preparing for “the deportation of 654 Sudanese to their country of origin”...The issue reached a climax on 29 December, when police broke up a three-month long sit-in protest by Sudanese refugees and failed asylum seekers in Cairo's Moustafa Mahmoud Park.

In recent weeks, retired lieutenant colonel Ollanta Moises Humala Tasso suddenly has become the most talked about name in Peruvian politics and a force to be reckoned with in the polls for the upcoming April 2006 presidential elections.

Many of the non-winterised tents distributed to victims have collapsed under the weight of snow and the onslaught from fierce winds that have been lashing mountainous parts of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Pakistani-administered Kashmir for the past three days.

...Cuban President Fidel Castro has revealed details of the large Cuban military participation in the war against South African troops in southern Angola in 1987-88. Some 55,000 Cuban troops aided the Angolan counter-offensive, that drove South Africans back to the Namibian border and to the negotiation table.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a severe stroke resulting in a cerebral hemorrhage on January 4, 2004. Paramedics rushed Sharon from his ranch in the Negev Desert to a Jerusalem hospital for life saving surgery.

That the families were allowed to believe for three hours that their loved ones were alive–when in fact only Mr. McCloy was–is inexcusable. The UMWA strongly encourages the appropriate state and federal officials to investigate how this could have happened, so that no family will ever have to suffer like this again.

The specter of impeachment is haunting Washington as anger over the Bush administration’s domestic spy program grows. According to Editor and Publisher magazine recently, a survey of Internet and print media shows that "impeachment chatter" is on the rise in response to revelations about the administration’s illegal domestic spying.

Local organizations have planned over 70 Out of Iraq events around the country on or about January 7th. Most of the events are town hall forums, and several will feature members of Congress, congressional staff, congressional and senatorial candidates, local elected officials, and leaders of the peace movement.