The international community seems to have an inexhaustible capacity for disingenuousness, expediency, and bad faith in responding to resurgent genocide in Darfur and eastern Chad.

"The U.S. government frequently commits wanton slaughters of innocents in its war efforts and military operations in other countries," said a report titled "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2005.

"!Si se puede!" April 10, 2006, will go down as a turning point in our state, where 60,000 immigrants, many of Hispanic origin, and their supporters, joined to show their numbers and to change the hearts and minds of the American people.

Resolution: "Whereas the United Nations Mission for the Stabilization of Haiti (MINUSTAH), manipulated by the United States, did not fulfill its role in its “mission for peace” according to its obligations under the UN Charter..."

Chinese loans have allowed Angola to forego IMF lending that would subject government finance to greater scrutiny. 70 percent of the population lives on less than $1 a day, and nearly half of children are severely malnourished.

An AP article on Tuesday begins: "President Bush bats away talk of bombing Iran's disputed nuclear sites as 'wild speculation.' But plodding diplomacy hasn't borne fruit so far, and the administration is facing a hard truth: There may be no way to stop Iran from getting the bomb."

The University of Michigan, New York University and several other institutions in the U.S., Canada and Europe have recently severed relationships with The Coca-Cola Company because Coca-Cola would not agree to an independent third party investigation of allegations of human rights, labor and environmental abuses by its bottlers in Colombia and India.

Those who march for immigrants’ rights today, will march tomorrow for labor rights for all, for a raise in the minimum wage, for a national health care system, for quality schools and all the other things that all workers want.

"What is most frightening is that criminal groups have established strong links with the government under the previous regime. And today they demand participation in political life."

These days much has been said and written about Fausto Bertinotti, the political shifts he has taken, and his innovative and even daring approach to the problems faced by the Italian and European left.

A meeting of the top leaders of the seven political parties was held today in the afternoon in Kathmandu. The decisions of the meeting were publicized in the following communiqué...

Around 65 percent of 6.8 million electorate voted Monday in three districts of West Bengal to mark the start of staggered assembly elections the ruling Left Front hopes to win for a record seventh term.

I, like millions of other former and ongoing Verizon customers, watched my phone bills rise sharply for local calls while a deregulated Verizon got into Internet, cell phones, TV, etc., making us pay for both their investments in the new technologies and their discounts to new customers for relatively expensive services.

Just as President Bush announced full support for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the face of a "revolt of the generals" who have criticized Rumsfeld for faulty leadership of the war in Iraq, documents linking Rumsfeld directly to the abuse of prisoners at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba were revealed in the US media.

Of late, a major problem in the bi-lateral relations between Washington and Beijing has been the allegation by the former that the latter is a major pirate of U.S. intellectual property.

Six Nations protesters have occupied a Caledonia, Ontario, subdivision building site known as the Douglas Creek Estates since February 28.

Nepalese people have begun to remove the signs and demolish the symbols that remind one of a monarchy’s existence. The slogan “Burn the Crown” has caught the public imagination from one part of this Himalayan nation to another.