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Thomas Riggins, 04/23/2006
They use their own secret language to communicate with one another, a language that says one thing on the surface but has a hidden subtext that, if recognized, allows the reader to translate "Capitalese" (the secret dialect of the capitalists) into more meaningful ordinary English.
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irinnews.org, 04/23/2006
Police officers on the new force will be paid US $10 to US $20 a month, equivalent to typical wages in the Liberian civil service. A sack of rice, one of the staples in the Liberian diet, costs around US $22.
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Fidel Castro Ruz, 04/23/2006
"They have come here to take away the dignity the Revolution has given back to black men and women; we fight to preserve for all that supreme dignity essential to human beings. They have come to take away from our workers their new jobs; we fight for a liberated Cuba with employment for every working man and woman."
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Marie-Dominique Bertuccioli, 04/23/2006
"The case of the[Cuban] Five began when our compatriots were arrested on September 12, 1998, through to today April 12, 2006." On mastermind terrorist Posada Carriles being in the U.S.: " Nobody speaks of deporting him, of punishing him"
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Michael Lettieri and Gabriel Garcia, 04/23/2006
The [Televisa] facility with which the media corporations successfully manipulated the varying electoral ambitions of political parties represents a rank perversion of the democratic process.
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David Swanson, 04/23/2006
It may at first seem odd to call a proposal for a living wage standard "revolutionary", because I haven't heard the students at UVA say one word about any private company picking up responsibility for people who can't work.
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Luis M. Garcia Cunarro, 04/23/2006
One needs to mention... the overthrow of Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide, who was democratically elected, and the coup d'etat against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in April, 2002, which were not seen as violations of democracy.
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Naresh ‘Nadeem’, 04/23/2006
US imperialists have lost hope of Gyanendra’s survival --- of their safest bet in the country over the last five years.
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I'lam Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel, 04/23/2006
The measures, announced on March 12 at the weekly cabinet meeting, will include creating 37 and a half jobs a year for the next three years in government ministries to be offered to Arab candidates "whenever possible."
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights, 04/22/2006
Canada and the United States of America (USA), followed by the European Union and Japan, have suspended their financial aid to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).
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Dave Lindorff, 04/22/2006
It could well be that the end to life on earth will not come gradually over a century or over several centuries, but more the way it happens in a goldfish bowl: one day your fish is swimming happily around in clear water...the next, you find it floating belly-up...
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People's Daily Online, 04/22/2006
Through China's reform and development, we have successfully resolved the problem of feeding 1.3 billion people in the world, we have successfully lifted over 200 million people out of poverty.
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People's Republic of China, 04/22/2006
The United States has always boasted itself as the "model of democracy" and hawked its mode of democracy to the rest of the world. In fact, American "democracy" is always one for the wealthy and a "game for the rich."
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www.traprockpeace.org, 04/22/2006
On Friday, April 14 ten SFSU students protested military recruitment at the university’s career fair. Campus police interrupted their protest and physically took the students from the school’s gymnasium where they were protesting. ...they were banned from campus.
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Kantipur Online, 04/22/2006
More than hundred thousand people marched in the streets of Pokhara in Kaski, Narayangadh in Chitwan and Ghorahi in Dang district on Thursday demanding immediate restoration of Loktantra and end of autocratic monarchy.
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Simone Baribeau, 04/22/2006
Yesterday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela would exit from the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), and that he would consider dropping import tariffs for select agricultural goods for some neighboring countries.
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Akahata, 04/22/2006
Denso is Japan's largest supplier of car parts mainly for Toyota Motor Corp. which keeps making more than 1 trillion yen in annual profits. Denso has its head office in Kariya city, Aichi Prefecture. Many of its contingent workers are not covered by the health insurance program.
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FARC-EP, 04/22/2006
Notwithstanding Colombia's "democratic" image, in practice political opposition in Colombia has traditionally had very limited margins for legal activity, and has constantly been pushed toward non-institutional forms of action.
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Bob Briton, 04/21/2006
So how, without a program of extensive nationalisation, with a virtual open door to foreign investment and with few apparent links to the working class, does the government of Hugo Chávez attract so much interest and support from the socialist and communist movements in Latin America and increasingly from all over the world?
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Kantipur Online, 04/21/2006
The police fired at the protestors defying curfew in Kalanki killing at least three and injuring dozens. The Armed Police Force (APF) personnel fired live and rubber bullets on the mass of about 35,000.
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