Fifteen thousand people rally and march (April 23) in San Francisco, demanding legalization and equality for undocumented immigrants.

Here’s a two-word proposal for solving the immigration crisis in the USA: open borders. Before you mouse-click me into oblivion or crumple up your newspaper in disgust, hear me out.

Cuban Alimport and the US State of Nebraska signed several agreements on Wednesday for the purchase of 2.8 million dollars worth of food as part of an import deal worth 30 million dollars.

Hamas should realize that the struggle of Palestinian people is both a national struggle and part of a world struggle against imperialism and oppression of all people's. International solidarity is vital and may well be lost by the immoral endorsements of murderous acts of terrorism committed against working people and other innocent civilians.

Besides losing out on schooling, children working in the quarry sites are exposed to hazards such as "injuries from heavy tools, inhaling of dust ... and damage to eyes and skin from flying chips of stones".

US president George W Bush released the latest US National Security Strategy in Washington on March 17, 2006. The NSS is the definitive US strategic policy document which, by law, is supposed to be announced annually but has now been released after a gap of four years.

George Bush sent another one of his swaggering messages April 18. The President refused to rule out a nuclear strike against Iran, declaring that "all options remain on the table."

Intended as a satire on the state of the nation, American Dreamz is more amusing than cutting edge, despite the fact that it caricatures the current president waging war on the world.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez spoke this Sunday with visitors from the United States who have benefited from the program that provides fuel at solidarity prices sponsored by the CITGO oil company.

During the course of the recent rioting it became obvious that the Australian forces found themselves on the receiving end of angry stone-throwers, and this sentiment is certain to increase as the same failed policies are re-imposed.

The [Swaziland] reality has been sustained through...an ideological appeal to Swazi culture (including women’s oppression), ban on political parties, torture and violence against democratic and worker movements, political persecution and imprisonment of democracy activists, and total control by the monarchy

Préval said that Cuban doctors, of whom there are now some 500 in Haiti, would soon be stationed in every Haitian county. Fifty-five Haitian counties – called communes – presently don’t have Cuban medical personnel,

The sanctions would include travel restrictions on the leaders of these groups and their supporters...Each country would also "freeze assets of armed groups, their leaders and supporters" and pursue their possible listing internationally as terrorist groups.

“In the way the state has been using violence against the peaceful rallies filled with children, women and youth, it has acted totally irresponsibly and undemocratically,” said Prabodh Debkota from ActionAid Nepal...15 demonstrators have been killed and over 3,500 arrested over the past 19 days.

"I don't want to sound pessimistic, but we are heading for a disaster … have stopped operating on patients whose lives are endangered, and treat only emergency conditions," the public relations director explained

The death penalty is the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights, because it contravenes the essence of human values, It is often applied in a discriminatory manner, follows unfair trials or is applied for political reasons.

Joining Illinois, California has become the second state in which a proposal to impeach President Bush has been introduced in the state legislature.  And this one includes Cheney as well.

In the past three years the Bush administration has vigorously made comparisons between reconstruction in Iraq and post-World War II Germany and Japan.

...It will take some enormous negative revelations of information, facts regarding Giuliani’s actual leadership for the conventional wisdom to be altered about his “heroic” role that day.