The Bush administration has put our nation’s coal miners in danger by killing 17 Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) safety rules, including measures on mine rescue teams and emergency oxygen.

The payola accusations revolve around whether radio programmers received gifts, cash and other items in exchange for playing certain songs at radio stations without publicly disclosing the deals.

What we see is a people plagued by years of oppression, some turning to simple solutions and possible glory, others prepared to be patient, trying to organise the mass movement anonymously.

Many farm workers in the Coachella Valley live in house trailers in labor camps, like Concepcion Lopez and her son Jaime Sebastian. The owner of the camp where she has her trailer has failed to provide electricity and basic services.

We call upon the public opinion around the globe to defend the Iranian peoples’ struggle for democracy, human rights and social justice, we urge all the progressive and peace-loving forces to raise their protest voice against warmongering slogans.

Already four of the hunger strikers have required medical attention - the latest, 44-year old hunger striker Maritza Gomez, was hospitalised with a very high pulse and feeling faint.

Nepal’s biggest suppliers of military assistance - India, the United States and the United Kingdom - have already suspended their military assistance to Nepal.

Responding to successive decisions made by the US, the European Union and various European and non-European countries to boycott the Palestinian Authority and deprive it of urgently needed funds, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh described these dictates as both “hasty” and “unjust”.

Attacks and hostage-taking ... by the group which calls itself the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) recently cut Nigeria’s oil exports of 2.5 million barrels a day by more than 20 percent.

In more than 3 years of war, there has never been a positive sighting of alleged terror mastermind Abu Musab al Zarqawi. This has led many to believe that he is merely a creation of Pentagon propagandists working with their agents in the western press.

With the security situation in Darfur, Sudan, continuing to deteriorate, Africa Action today emphasized the need for urgent international action on this crisis in the coming weeks, as several key deadlines approach.

On the occasion of the 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, the Party Central Committee has received messages of congratulation from many Communist parties, workers parties and political organisations from around the world.

For the first time in history, the U.S. is intervening directly in the heart of the conflict to help Bogotá to contain the guerrillas and protect U.S. military and economic interests in the country and region.

Garang died in the crash on 30 July 2005, just three weeks after he was inaugurated as first vice president of Sudan and six months after the long-drawn-out war

At the UN, the US claimed the invasion, of US-armed, trained and transported mercenary brigade 2506 that landed in the Zapata Swamp on April 17, 1961 was a local uprising against the revolution.

Former Washington Post Latin America correspondent Jackson Diehl – and current Post columnist – has added to his already tarnished credentials as a chronically-biased source on regional affairs.

It's as if the spotlight that Hurricane Katrina cast on the inequities of disaster relief never happened. San Francisco's high and mighty are in full-throated self-celebration of the City's "rising from the ashes" of the April 18, 1906 earthquake and fire.

Despite the 2005 comprehensive peace agreement between the government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) and an agreement on national reconciliation between the government and the opposition political coalition known as the National Democratic Alliance, widespread atrocities continue in that country.

"When it came to pinning the terrorist label on the Saddam Government," Dilip Hiro wrote in 2004 ("Secrets and Lies," p. 381), "all the Bush administration had to do was point a finger at the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization..."

“Georgia is at a critical point, at a crossroads. We can go one of two ways. We can reverse the progress we made, that is a distinct possibility,” Georgia State Rep. Nan Orrock (D), 62. "Or we can create a new progressive future."