So, waterboarding is now OK.  So is the suspension of one of our basic rights of freedom—the Writ of Habeas Corpus.  Habeas Corpus, according to the U.S. Constitution, can only be suspended in cases of invasion or rebellion.

For its part, the US media persist regularly in promoting many falsehoods about Venezuela. For example, on just about any Fox News report, one can find references to President Chávez as a "strongman" and other thinly veiled claims that he is a dictator.

Iraq Veterans for Progress (IVFP) is supporting the campaigns of four candidates running for the US House and Senate, and creating jobs for veterans at the same time: by sending veterans of the US Invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan to help the campaigns in any way they can.

A congressionally created special health care panel set a national goal of universal health care coverage by 2012, but its report and recommendations are far from the end of the story.

On September 15, Mexico celebrated the 196 anniversary of its independence. Yet this year’s ceremonies were marked by conflict and tension as two competing events revealed the sharp division now deeply etched into Mexican society.

Communist Party leaders in Bangladesh appeal to the people for ouster of the ultra right BNP-Jamat and for a left democratic alternative. They denounce interference by the Bush administration.

The government of the United States can not talk about the war against terrorism while allowing the existence of terrorist groups of Cuban American origin based in Miami and at the same time keep imprisoned Five Cuban antiterrorist fighters.

So when you are at your polling place this November 7 thinking about how your Republican congressperson or Senator isn't so bad or crazy like some of those extremists in Washington, ask yourself, can I afford another two years with this person who has blocked real efforts to provide me with affordable health care coverage?

A recent poll shows that 75 percent of voters are disgusted by the Republican majority House and Senate, the highest disapproval rate since 1994. They are frustrated at Bush’s endless Iraq war, by Republican cronyism and corruption, tax giveaways to the rich, cutbacks in vital services, and criminal negligence in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

The Republicans have "not achieved a political realignment." Their radical right policies are being forced on the country "without clear majoritarian support." Well, if that is the case, why should they be able to continue to get away with such undemocratic behavior?

The United States has already on several occasions during these last 10 years used the United Nations to facilitate their interventions and their aggressions against sovereign states on all the continents without any exception, from Somalia and to Lebanon, while passing by Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq.

This is mission, unlike other military missions abroad, should not take part in the conflict; it should only have an interposition role that doesn't question Lebanon's sovereignty and it shouldn't intend the disarm of Hezbollah.

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward can always be counted on to tell the truth-- after all the other options have been exhausted. His new book, State of Denial, doesn't veer too far from the pattern he's followed his entire career; one minute he's the "kingmaker" dishing up hearty-helpings of literary tripe like "Bush at War" and "Plan of Attack" and the next minute he's ramming a scimitar into the lower lumbar region of his prey.

Last month the Bush administration announced that Marine Corps Individual Ready Reservists are being recalled to duty. This is due to a shortage of soldiers who are willing to serve additional tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

With the launching of optical satellite No.2 on September 11, Japan now has three intelligence-gathering satellites in orbit. The fourth satellite is planned for next year.

THE BATTLE OVER the future of medicare heated up in September with attacks by private health care advocates on Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman. While Medicare supporters welcomed Smitherman's Sept. 11 speech, they pointed out that his government's actions tell a different story.

José Juan Pineda knows what it’s like to have to bear all kinds of nicknames alluding to the strabismus he was born with; 26 years have not been enough to get used to all the verbal abuse heaped on him from strangers and acquaintances alike, children and adults, and even professionals.

Five years of the Bush administration have shown the failure of its war strategy. The plan for a “Greater Middle East”, the idea the neocons advanced to justify this military strategy, has provoked a vicious cycle of war and terrorism and has reinforced fundamentalist movements in the region.

Grape workers and union organizers at a rally at the "Forty Acres," the historic home of the United Farm Workers.