Benazir Bhutto's murder in the garrison city Rawalpindi is a setback for everyone who was hoping to see some form of accountable democratic government emerge after years of military dictatorship.

So far the campaign has shown, to any independent, intellectually astute observer, that there is currently no such thing as a free election in this country. Since Mr. Putin was appointed #1 in the electoral list, all the government’s administrative resources, all the power structures and ministries, are being used on behalf of his party’s campaign.

With 28% of nearly 10,000 votes cast, Smithfield Chairman Joseph Luter III narrowly beat out American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey to win the seventh annual online "Grinch of the Year" election sponsored by National Jobs with Justice.

Fairly commonly these days, poets end their volumes with a short prose section, usually footnotes or glosses on the poems.

Bolivia’s governing party and opposition are once again measuring their strength Wednesday, leading the nation to a dangerous path with an uncertain ending.

First of all, the People’s Weekly World (which continues the Daily Worker, founded in 1924) has a very long history of what we call working-class journalism.

The African National Congress (ANC) will meet for its 52nd national congress beginning December 16th in the Limpopo province of South Africa to both chart its political course and to elect its new leadership collective.

Politicians are constantly regurgitating a false belief that national security is more important than the rights of individuals. They are willing to do whatever it takes to keep America "safe from the terrorists" - even at the expense of civil liberties and basic human rights.

A deafening but dissonant chorus sung by rightists, centrists and false leftists is celebrating the result rejecting the Venezuelan constitutional reform by less than one percentage point.

He envisions himself as a great leader who stands on principle, even when he stands alone, and equates his thick-headed stubbornness and uncompromising nature to Lincoln's courage to stand alone for a great cause.

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.

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

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.

Former President Jimmy Carter said in a published interview it is “almost inconceivable” for an American presidential candidate “to make the statements that I’ve made concerning the plight of the Palestinians..."

On November 6, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-8 to send the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey to the full Senate for a vote to become the next U.S. Attorney General.

The ongoing socio-economic and political ills that mar potential progress in Middle Eastern countries can largely be attributed to the ill-defined foreign policy of the United States.

The Continental Social Alliance (ASC) denounced on Wednesday the lack of guarantee and transparency shown by Costa Rican authorities during the referendum on the free trade agreement with the US (CAFTA-DR).

More than 7 million voters in Cuba participated in nominations for municipal delegates, a process that has just concluded with 37,328 citizens proposed for voters’ ballots in the upcoming October 21 elections.

From the point of view of a corpse, Thursday's die-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol was overwhelming and diminishing. I was one of twenty some corpses lying dead in a river of blood in front of police and tourists and a color guard of Iraq veterans.

Don’t think that just because there’s not another Bush presently running for office that there won’t be anymore black voter purge. It appears to that quite a few of you still don’t actually believe this happened, after all, the mainstream media hasn’t focused on this.