New York Times editor Roger Cohen is in Caracas, presumedly to observe Sunday's constitutional referendum, and this column reveals the thoughts of a man who has no sympathy at all for the interests of the people of Venezuela

On Thursday, November 27, 2007, the Community Development and Human Resources Committee (CDHR) of the City Council of Atlanta approved a resolution to create a Housing Relocation Task Force.

Food pouches, which are made from a combination of food-grade aluminum foil, plastic and adhesives, do appear to have some front-end environmental advantages over the cans they are increasingly replacing on supermarket shelves.

Venezuela, whose people are heirs to Bolivar's ideas which transcend his era, is today facing a world tyranny a thousand times more powerful than that of Spain's colonial strength.

Thousands of Venezuelans, many of them Chavez supporters, have bought the exaggerations and lies about Venezuela's Constitutional Reform that have been circulating across the country for months.

Over 200 friends of Cuba from throughout North America gathered here, Nov. 9-11, to hear legal updates, retool strategies and rededicate themselves to the liberation of five Cuban men jailed in the United States.

Bolivian president, Evo Morales, called for constructive talks with government and business to debate the investment of national resources and the fight against corruption.

A spate of recent news reports indicates that the NATO occupation of Afghanistan is becoming a deeper disaster. It has been revealed that many victims of the Nov. 6 bombing in northern Baghlan province were children shot by government bodyguards.

The comprehensive defeat of the Howard government and Howard himself is a great victory for the Australian labour movement, from Kevin Rudd to the tens of thousands of rank and file trade unionists and the members of many other community organizations.

Much has been made in the US media about the Constitutional reform process in Venezuela, but very little study of what those reforms entail has been undertaken.

A prominent item in the news this morning is Venezuela’s upcoming referendum on Sunday. Recent polls show the proposals going down to defeat by ten percentage points, 49 percent to 39 percent, a sharp reversal of fortune from previous weeks.

These meetings were initiated 9 years ago by the Communist Party of Greece. For a number of years they were held in Athens, but beginning last year they began branching out.

Fukuda vowed that he will make the “utmost effort” to get an anti-terrorism special measures bill enacted as early as possible in order to resume the Maritime Self-Defense force refueling mission in the Indian Ocean.

The decisive defeat of the Coalition Government in last Saturday’s federal elections was a great victory for the labour movement, for the thousands of rank and file trade unionists and members of the Labor Party, for Your Rights @ Work groups and thousands of rank and file workers.

The history of paving dates back to Roman times if not earlier, but our modern society has taken the practice to the extreme.

Bolivian President Evo Morales today joined a column of campesinos that has been marching for several days in favor of a variety of social measures and a new national Constitution.

What do an organic farmer from Spain, a union worker activist from Brazil, and a human rights scholar living in London have in common?

New Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has vowed to sign a global pact on climate change and to negotiate to withdraw frontline troops from Iraq after an emphatic national election win on the weekend.

Semivumbi Ntawiheba never used to be interested in politics. Growing up on a mountain farm close to Masisi town in the Democratic Republic of Congo's restive North Kivu, Ntawiheba lived only for his cattle.

It's not often that you get the chance to review a book about which nothing really negative can be said, but this is definitely the case with Michael Parenti's recently published collection of essays Contrary Notions.