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Larry Birns and Michael Lettieri, 06/27/2006
Whatever its previous corrupt and repressive domestic profile, Mexico, prior to Fox and his ruling PAN party’s arrival to office, had long maintained a proud and independent foreign policy during decades of uninterrupted rule by the authoritarian PRI.
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Stewart Acuff and Sheldon Friedman, 06/27/2006
The Bush National Labor Relations Board is easily the most anti-worker labor board in history and has lost few opportunities to turn back the clock on workers' rights, but even against this sorry backdrop, the scope of what they now are contemplating is breathtaking.
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irinnews.org, 06/27/2006
The changes put limits of two five-year terms on future presidents, ensuring that power changes hands every decade in a country where the last president remained in office for over twenty years.
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Susan Oehler, 06/27/2006
Whereas Section 603 of section LIII of Jefferson’s Rules of the US House rules for the 109th Congress permits the inception of impeachment proceedings by charges transmitted from the legislature of a state...
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Constitution Summer, 06/27/2006
The Berkeley City Council will vote on whether to include an initiative advocating the impeachment of George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney on the Berkeley municipal ballot in November.
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Joel Wendland, 06/26/2006
As the November congressional elections approach, extremist positions adopted by the Republican Party are hurting that party’s chances of keeping control of both Houses.
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People's Daily Online, 06/26/2006
Some Western media have attempted to discredit Sino-African relations by propagating their African version of the "China threat theory"....It is well known that Western colonial powers committed numerous crimes including slavery in their exploitation of Africa.
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irinnews.org, 06/26/2006
Beatings, burnings, solitary confinement and the misuse of anti-terrorism laws were some of the abuses cited in the Middle East by human rights activists as the world marks the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on Monday
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Prabir Purkayastha, 06/26/2006
AFTER the reading of the human genome, there are daily advances that research on genetics is reporting: from chimpanzee-human differences to a new world free of disabilities, superior intelligence and human happiness, all implanted into our genes.
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Communist Party of Australia, 06/26/2006
The democratically elected government of East Timor continues in their attempts to find a peaceful and negotiated outcome to settle the present disturbances.
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irinnews.org, 06/26/2006
The number of drug abusers countrywide has increased by about 50 percent since the beginning of the year, with an estimated 2 percent of the total population now addicted to illegal narcotics...
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Communist Party of India, 06/26/2006
June 16 was a red-letter day in the history of Nepalese people's struggle for democracy. On that day the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) entered into a historic accord with the Maoists who have so far eschewed the parliamentary struggle but played a significant role in the struggle against the monarchy.
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