Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez swore in 15 new and 12 continuing members of his cabinet today. The cabinet shake-up comes as Chavez is about to renew his own oath of office on Wednesday, at the start of his second full term as President of Venezuela.

The Peace and Solidarity Commission prepared this memo for the National Board discussion on legislative priorities. Out of necessity, it is also an assessment of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) report released on Dec 6, 2006.

Pity the poor baseball writers! To read their words, the very fate of our republic has been resting in their trembling hands.

Here's the situation we're in.  President Bush and his gang lied us into a war.  The occupation of Iraq has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction or 9-11 or Saddam Hussein or democracy or making Americans more safe. 

Under the banner of "America Says NO to More Troops! End the War!" the antiwar movement will launch a national surge of protest within 24 hours of Bush's announcement of plans to send more troops to Iraq.

As violent attacks increase across Darfur, and as the humanitarian crisis that forms part of the genocide continues to escalate, Africa Action today condemned the lack of progress by the international community in realizing the necessary United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force to protect the people of Darfur.

It is said that there is more than one way to skin a cat. It seems that United States is trying to skin this cat –Iran- in anyway that it can, including economic strangulation.

Iran's women's liberation movement, with a century of struggle history, steadily and confidently open its way in the society. Decades after Constitution Revolution (1906) hundreds of periodicals and books and tens of web sites and web logs and women's columns in printed media, challenge the anti-women regime of the Supreme Leader and patriarchal society in various forms.

We’ve had so much hype about the proposed “surge” of troops in Iraq, for weeks now, that when President Bush finally releases the details of the plan, perhaps as early as Wednesday, they will likely come as a surprise to no one.

In the waning days of 2006, the reality of institutional racism and aggressive imperialism were laid bare again in the U.S. The police shooting of African American Sean Bell and his two friends in Brooklyn, New York on the morning of November 25 were followed on December 6th by a report from the Iraq Study Group convened by the US government to, as the authors of the report note, "solve the problem of Iraq."

Fervently embracing a cause that she took up after her son’s death, pacifist Cindy Sheehan affirmed in Cuba that the atrocities committed by the government of George W. Bush in the world is shameful for many Americans.

Finally, after weeks of tension and commotion, municipal elections and mid-term parliamentary elections were held in Iran. Disqualifying hundreds of independent and dissident candidates, along with intensifying the suppressive pressure on labour and student movements in Iran over the weeks prior to election.

As some people learned from the minimal and abusive media coverage, on December 8, 2006, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney introduced Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush, making him the 10th president of the United States to face such action.

In all the annals of spin, few statements are as misleading as Vice President Cheney's that the nuclear industry operates "efficiently, safely, and with no discharge of greenhouse gases or emissions," or President Bush's claim America's 103 nuclear plants operate "without producing a single pound of air pollution or greenhouse gases."

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said his government could review relations with any country which criticised the execution of ex-leader Saddam Hussein.

Puzzled? It’s really very simple. It’s like the rising tide lifting all boats. For years, advocates of retaining high-paying factory jobs have talked about “the multiplier effect.”

Most people would agree, I think, that Saddam Hussein was not a role model of what a political leader should be. It is hard to have sympathy for a man who was responsible for the murders of thousands of people and who routinely resorted to force and violence in order to maintain himself in power.

The first week of January has a special tryst with India’s history. This significance would be as valid in any year, but it assumes an added import in 2007.