The number of US House Representatives who have signed on to H. Res 635 – supporting a probe looking into the grounds for impeaching Bush – has jumped to fourteen.

We face a grave and gathering danger. It isn't terrorism. It is the health care crisis.

This State of the Union contained more of the same from Bush that we have heard over the past years.

Changes to regulations governing the execution of prisoners held by the US military have opened the way for the execution of Guantánamo Bay inmates. The new rules authorise the army to set the location for executions “imposed by military court-martial or military tribunals and authorised by the President of the United States”. The Bush administration has never ruled out the death penalty for war-on-terror detainees.

While the Conservative push for a ruling majority was thwarted, Stephen Harper and his right-wing party managed to fashion gains at the polls on Jan. 23 mostly at the expense of the Liberals, winning 124 (of 308) seats in Parliament.

The E.U. Ambassador Ramiro Cibrian-Uzal stated that all ministers of any Palestinian government must be committed to renouncing violence, recognizing Israel as a state and accepting previous agreements made with Israel (including the 'Roadmap' plan).

Washington and the U.N. occupation forces at its service want elections to be held on Feb. 7, no matter what, so that they can "finalize" the coup d'état and replace the hugely unpopular, repressive and corrupt regime of de facto Prime Minister Gérard Latortue.

In recent weeks, as we have reported, several doctors have examined Haitian political prisoner Father Gérard Jean-Juste in his Port-au-Prince jail, determined that he suffers from leukemia, and prescribed immediate medical treatment in the United States.

Federal mine safety laws permit the union to represent miners at any mine on safety issues at the request of two or more miners. Several Sago miners, along with the families of two of the miners killed, asked for UMWA representation in the investigation. Over ICG’s objections, MSHA certified the union’s participation Jan. 18.

South Africa's unemployment rate is between 30 and 40 percent, depending on which definition of 'unemployed' is used, and the country cannot afford economic growth without job creation..."The economy is not creating jobs - to a large extent it's jobless economic growth," he pointed out.

So much shame does not cease to surprise us. Luis Posada Carriles, the most notorious terrorist of the Western hemisphere, formally requested his freedom to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The very opening of this review points out the trouble with the US aggression against the Iraqi people. Kakutani(NYT book reviewer) points out that Bush sent Bremer to Iraq as a proconsul (viceroy would be a better term) but that “he knew little about Iraq.”

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appears to have lied about the President’s approval of illegal domestic wiretapping, a letter from US Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) to Mr. Gonzales suggests.

On January 25, Hamas surprised the world with a dominating victory in the first Palestinian parliamentary elections in ten years. Although the world was stunned, the case for Hamas, and more importantly the case against Fatah, was made over the last few months by the actions of each group.

Adapted from a song by Florence Reece, UNION MINER’S WIFE. 1931 Harlan County, KY.

"The Hamas movement's success in the Palestinian legislative assembly election implies a significant change in the state of affairs in the occupied territories, concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and with regard to the Middle East as a whole", stated the Political Bureau of CPI on January 27th.

Our country witnesses the convening of the African Union Summit Conference which is taking place in circumstances that are neither conducive nor appropriate. This is despite the intensive preparationswhich the regime had undertaken and despite the unprecedented excess financing that is inconsistent with the modest means and abilities of our people.

The Democrats are fighting among themselves whether to sustain a filibuster against the Alito nomination, which all progressive forces in the U.S. should demand that they carry forward in the most militant way. Progressives also should make clear that a filibuster must be carried forward.

On January 1 Congress allowed two tax breaks that benefit the wealthy to become effective. The cuts eliminated current provisions of the tax code that limits the amount of personal exemptions and itemized deductions that Americans with high incomes can take.

As the “pink tide” fraternity of left-leaning leaders grows in numbers across Latin America, the successes of one of the continent’s less high profile members of this fellowship, Argentina’s Néstor Kirchner, have largely gone unnoticed outside of his country.