Basilio and Berdino are among the more than 800 children who work in the Cerro Rico mines. Basilio is the primary supporter for his family... he is paid $4 a day to work in the mines, sometime in a double shift (24 hours).

The CEO with the most outrageous retirement package is Henry McKinnell, CEO of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer...a major backer of efforts to privatize Social Security...With a $6.5 million annual retirement deal.

President Robert Mugabe issued a chilling warning last week... "If you want an excuse for being killed, be my guest and go into the streets and demonstrate. You should not threaten us; who are you to threaten us?"

Countless office pools, hundreds of millions in on-line betting, and multi-billion dollar TV contracts. Welcome to amateur athletics in 2006.

Mao: The Untold Story is literally one of the worst books that I‘ve ever read in Chinese or any other history. What is remarkable, though, is the respectful reviews that such a work has received in the press in Britain and the US.

Amnesty International uses the term "rendition" to describe the transfer of individuals from one country to another, by means that bypass all judicial and administrative due process.

Republican loyalists and officials have sought to spread an anti-gay message in African American churches in order to convince Black voters to "come back home" to the Republican Party.

The Burkina Faso government estimated in February that a national prevention plan would alone cost 2 billion CFA (US $3,700,000) , of which just 1 million CFA was available.

About 3,000 peace activists from throughout the US South gathered on Saturday, April 1, in Atlanta, and marched from downtown's The King Center to midtown's Piedmont Park for the causes of peace and justice.

Commenting on the sudden resignation of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX), representatives of several public interest and advocacy groups are pledging to keep fighting to end corruption in Washington.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed..."

The special counsel appointed in late December 2003 to investigate the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson found out the identity of the Bush administration official who disclosed her undercover status to syndicated columnist Robert Novak just two months after the probe began.

he book is composed of short essays by Brian Eno, John Le Carre, Harold Pinter, Richard Dawkins, Haifa Zangana, and Michael Faber. It's as good a statement as I've seen of why this war is cruel and destructive.

During the three years of carnage in Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has shifted away from her now-discredited warning about a “mushroom cloud” to assert a strategic rationale for the invasion.

The election results also show that those parties that raised the banner of opposition to evacuation of settlements and withdrawal from the occupied territories suffered a serious setback.

At least 1,700 workers, mostly young girls, were working inside the factory when the fire broke out. As usual, the only stairs and exits in the building were locked, and workers frantically tried to escape by breaking down a wall and jumping from the 9-story building.

What is currently transpiring in the Occupied Territories is by far a worst-case scenario, ironically one made possible with the direct help of many Palestinians themselves.

This is another book from the genre of ex-Republicans who have awakened to the fact that the party they once believed in has become the tool of elite business interests and has nothing to do with real democracy.

Unlike the old days with the State only getting a cut of 33% per barrel, the new rules give Venezuela 80%.

President Jacques Chirac signed the bill into law over the weekend but immediately suspended it under the growing pressure, and called for a compromise and promising to amend it.