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irinnews.org, 02/17/2006
Professor John Makumbe was almost killed at birth by a shocked mid-wife in a mission hospital in rural eastern Zimbabwe.
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CPUSA, 02/16/2006
Last December, the House of Representatives passed anti-immigrant HR 4437...It would make all undocumented workers felons, as well as those who help or work with them including teachers, clergy, union leaders, social workers and family members.
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irinnews.org, 02/16/2006
The party's disputed leader Morgan Tsvangirai(MDC) has lost yet another round in his battle to overturn the results of the 2002 presidential election, which President Robert Mugabe maintains he won fairly.
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Joel Wendland, 02/16/2006
The Art of Protest is a study of specific cultural elements of some of the important social movements since the 1950s. Its weakest point may be that it doesn’t include much study of the labor and peace movements.
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irinnews.org, 02/16/2006
He was charged in Rwanda with "incitation to genocide", for reprinting - in a press review mainly intended for diplomats - articles from an extremist publication that incited the country's majority Hutus to kill its minority Tutsi population.
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Matthew Cardinale, 02/16/2006
25 US Representatives – including two members of the Georgia delegation – have now signed on as co-sponsors of H. Res 635.
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Pat Gowens, 02/16/2006
On Feb 1, Congress voted to drastically reduce income, food, education, and medicine for US youth, infants, elders, caregivers, and people with disabilities.
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www.trabajadores.co.cu, 02/16/2006
Irma’s support of the revolution has seen her take on a lot of different work. For example, she once spent time aboard fishing boats, teaching fishermen how to read and write; and was a trade union teacher.
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Heinz Stehr, 02/16/2006
The overall election campaign of the Left Party influenced positively the movements outside parliament. It enhanced debate about alternatives to neo-liberal policies.
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irinnews.org, 02/15/2006
The traffickers were recruiting young women, mainly from rural areas, promising them jobs as waitresses, nannies, cooks, saleswomen and dancers in the UAE...they end up in sexual slavery
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Timothy Karr, 02/15/2006
The tab for the fleecing and flogging of Americans comes to at least $1.6 billion. That's the amount seven Bush administration agencies spent from 2003 through mid-2005 on hundreds of contracts with advertising agencies, PR firms, and individuals...
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People's Voice, 02/15/2006
The federal election results made it clear that with only 36% of the vote, Harper has no strong mandate to push the country sharply to the right.
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Carl Bloice, 02/15/2006
It wasn't Copenhagen, it was Washington and something that transpired there recently was ugly and more than a little frightening. Bigotry was on the loose.
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Venezuelanlysis.com, 02/15/2006
Citizens Energy and Kennedy have arranged for discounted Venezuelan oil to be distributed through CITGO throughout the northeastern United States this winter.
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Tudeh Party of Iran, 02/15/2006
The continuation of the provocative policies by the reactionaries can only benefit the extreme right in the Bush administration.
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The Guardian (Australia), 02/15/2006
Tuesday the 24th of January this year was not particularly momentous: nothing catastrophic or startlingly rare or even extraordinary happened. It was, really, a typical day.
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Norman Markowitz, 02/14/2006
Cheney apparently wounded an upper class Texas Republican lawyer who broke "protocol" by approaching him from behind during the hunt as he was rotating to kill the quail.
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Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), 02/14/2006
While the rage against the imperialist arrogance and audacity spreads out, the imperialists are seeking ways of seizing the developments to attack Iran and Syria.
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Tom Pearson, 02/14/2006
Wheat Board officials bribed the regime to win contracts for Australian wheat, as opposed to wheat from other countries: they were paying bribes through the back door even as the US, along with Britain and Australia, invaded the country through the front door.
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Thomas Riggins, 02/14/2006
True science, a dispassionate search for the truth, can only thrive in environments conducive to free inquiry and intellectual honesty.
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