Hundreds of guest workers from India are protesting conditions in a Pascagoula shipyard that immigrant rights activists compare to slavery.

Before believing my eyes, I had to read twice “US program for defecting Cuban doctors a success”, written by Mr. Pablo Bachelet and published in the Miami Herald on 3/11/07.

President Bush is presently conducting a five country tour of Latin America. One of the main points on his agenda is trying to court its leaders into following the United States in their traditional drug prohibition strategies.

On March 6, the Bush administration's Immigration Control Enforcement (ICE) department of Homeland Security carried out a brutal immigration raid on Michael Bianco, Inc. in New Bedford, Massachusetts, arresting 350 workers.

Recent Senate hearings on the apparent politically motivated firings of eight US attorneys by the Bush administration has dealt a severe blow to the credibility of the administration and to the Justice Department.

After roughly seven and half years in office with his domestic popularity at an all-time low, his party the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) dysfunctional, his cabinet deprived of its ministerial authority—all indications are that Musharraf is here to stay.

We can draw several parallels between the current period and 1914-16. Wars were breaking out around the world in 1914. Labor, oppressed nations and democratic rights were under relentless attack everywhere.

If one had been watching or (for those worshipers of relics) reading the news of late, one could easily be forgiven for being wholly unaware of the numerous signs pointing ominously to an eventual, if not imminent, preemptive, regime-changing attack by the United States and its proxies upon Iran.

As early as 2004, countries began to withdraw their troops from Iraq. Immediately after the Madrid train bombings in March of 2004, the new Spanish government announced it was withdrawing its troops from Iraq immediately.

The Dr. Fakhruddin led Care Taker Government (CTG) has been sworn in to state power. Some positive reaction has been created after the government’s nullification of the farcical ‘Blue Print Election’.

My first trip to Vietnam was in 1972 during the war, when Nixon decided to bomb Hanoi during the Christmas holidays. The contrast with today’s Vietnam was enormous.