Secretary of State Condi Rice doesn't think the United States and European Union should continue talking to Iran about their potential nuke development. Diplomacy should end and the UN
Security Council must now take action, she says.

Australian society has become increasingly militarised over the last five years but legislation introduced in the Senate on December 7, as many people were winding down for the summer break, goes much further.

The situation in Iraq has continued to be an international issue throughout the year 2005, even becoming a predominant national issue in several countries. It has also been the subject of debate among popular, progressive and democratic circles, especially because of the continued instability and extreme violence that has resulted in the death of scores of innocent civilians every day.

“The announcement has further left a cloud hanging over the entire workforce because of pending future announcements of additional facilities to be closed at some point in the future. Unfortunately, analyst and media speculation during the last month has made these events even more wrenching for Ford workers, their families and communities."

UNI global union plans to enroll 900 unions world-wide into a programme to force big corporations to improve their behaviour. The aim is to sign up multinationals to observe labour and other rights wherever they operate in the world.

On Jan. 19, 2006, immigration attorneys and advocates in key cities throughout the United States will simultaneously submit motions that all deportation proceedings against Haitians be dropped. The lawyers will ask immigration judges to administratively close immigration cases involving Haitians due to the terrible human rights conditions in Haiti.

The population of Caracas is brimming with political and revolutionary energy. In the Cafes, restaurants and bars, the pleasant Latino music is overwhelmingly drown out by the constant sounds of political debate and discussion...Murals of Bolivar, Che, Marx and Chavez stand out on practically every major avenue.

"The current US administration has utterly failed in its efforts to isolate and stifle Cuba economically... President Bush and his administration have committed themselves to implementing a macabre transition plan in Cuba, an act of flagrant interference in the internal affairs of our country, which would return it to a state of backwardness..."

The Sudanese government has welcomed the election on Tuesday of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Republic of Congo as chairman of the African Union (AU) for this year.

The fall out from the riots on Sydney’s beaches continues amid accusations that the State government and police have ‘gone soft’ on Australians from Lebanese backgrounds.

More than 1,500 workers of Toyoto Kirloskar Motor Corporation are on warpath against the dismissal of three of their colleagues in voilation of Section 33(1)(b) of Industrial Disputes Act (IDA). The employees were dismissed after so-called independent enquiry instituted by the management.

It began with a bulletin from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (1/4/06) accusing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of invoking an old anti-Semitic slur. Anti-Semitism is a problem that deserves to be treated seriously, and not used as a pretense to bash official enemies.

Cuban artists and intellectuals of the "In Defense of Humanity" international movement salute the election of Evo Morales as an extraordinary triumph for the people of Bolivia and a victory for all the peoples of Our America.

Tens of thousands of Americans will phone their members of Congress on Wednesday, January 25, to urge them to repair the USA PATRIOT Act.  The Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) organized the National Call-In Day in response to a draft PATRIOT Act reauthorization bill that its network of grassroots allies nationwide strongly oppose.

In the fall of 2005, countries throughout Central America and the Caribbean were brought to their knees by an onslaught of deadly tropical storms which cut a swath of devastation across the region. Some of the destruction was avoidable.

Shortly after his inauguration Sunday as the first indigenous president of Bolivia, pledging to end “500 years of injustice” against his people, Evo Morales participated in a massive celebration party in downtown La Paz with a crowd estimated in 100,000.

Life took a dramatic turn for 32-year-old Bahtigul when her husband divorced her...“It's been three years since I got divorced and my husband banished me from his home. But shouldn't I have any rights to some of his property and the land that he cultivates?" she asked, with tears in her eyes.

In a speech delivered last week to the National Press Club, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney laid out a comprehensive economic reform program. Sweeney denounced the "perfect storm of outsourcing, off-shoring, tax evasion, layoffs, work speedups, wage cuts, health care cuts, pension cuts, shifting risks, bashing unions and short-changing communities" that are the hallmarks of the Bush administration’s economic policy and right-wing political philosophy.

A much anticipated anti-government rally in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, was foiled by a daylong curfew imposed by the authorities on Friday. According to the main seven political parties, who were the primary organisers, over 500,000 people were expected to participate in the rally to protest against the municipal elections

His global honeymoon over, Bolivia’s president-elect Evo Morales will soon have to face his country’s hard realities when he is sworn into office on Sunday...If he backtracks on his commitments for real change and an improved standard of living, he may very well end up being one more Bolivian president who was capsized and drown.