To help pay for the huge tax cut, Bush’s Fiscal Year 2007 budget will slash $65 billion from health care, education, job training, low-income, food, child care and other domestic programs that help families that aren’t so wealthy.

Donors in January promised Africa US$ 150 million to tackle bird flu at a special conference in China, and part of those funds were intended for compensation but none of the funds have arrived yet, according to pan-African body the African Union.

“We don’t have any choice about cultivating poppies because it’s the only means for our survival,“ said Amir Mohammad, 30, another farmer in the village, as he lanced the bulbous poppy heads to encourage the precious fluid to ooze out.

In the last month 16 coal miners have died in West Virginia.

The battle began last June when a young woman came to Parkdale Community Legal Services claiming that $8000 of her wages went unpaid.

The Health Care Constitutional Amendment is receiving growing support as more and more groups see it as an essential foundation for real reform.

The electoral victory of Cde Morales in Bolivia marks a welcome and continuing shift of Latin American politics towards the left.

To pay for the increase in military spending, Bush has proposed potentially devastating cuts in funding to already under-funded social services.

President Bush’s uninspiring State of the Union speech was a smokescreen to conceal this administration’s criminal actions.

With the State Department’s unwarranted recent expulsion of Venezuelan diplomat Jeny Figueredo from her post as second-in-command of that country’s Washington’s embassy, its conflict with Caracas has reached its most stressful phase yet.

The implications of Hamas's sweeping win in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza cannot be limited to the geopolitical boundaries of the Occupied Territories.

Ending the extreme inequality of wealth and well-being in the United States would end the war in Iraq. 

22 US Representatives – including two members of the Georgia delegation – have now signed on as co-sponsors of H. Res 635, demanding a probe which could recommend Bush’s impeachment.

The response by a number of Western governments to the election of Hamas in the Palestinian elections blows sky-high any belief that they have a genuine commitment to democratic elections.

"I find it extremely hypocritical that Washington is investigating this group for the 'crime' of traveling to Cuba. The U.S. government is flagrantly violating even the most basic norms of human rights..."

For now, the U.S. and Iran have fundamental conflict of interests, which constitutes the key obstacle for solving the Iranian nuclear issue as well as the fundamental cause of the diplomatic hassle in Vienna.



With Cuban President Fidel Castro on hand... quoted passages of King’s book, The Trumpet of Conscience, in which he makes devastating accusations against the war in Vietnam and describes the United States as a horrendous machine of violence, were read.

Since July 2005, the Women’s Rights Association (WRA) of Iraq has registered more than 240 cases of women. They say they have have suffered “humiliation” at the hands of the army and police during raids on their homes,

For more than two years, the US had been conducting a campaign to undermine the ICC, including by asking states to sign unlawful bilateral impunity agreements which committed them to not surrendering US personnel accused of international crimes