Fidel[Castro] called for the destruction of ideas connected to neofascism, and to eliminate both the method and its fruits: "the protagonists born from such system."...There were particular circumstantial elements in the birth of fascism, but there are new elements emerging in the globalized world, like a global empire.

During Japan's war of aggression against China, I committed crimes against the Chinese. For the past 60 years I have been suffering from a strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt. Kneeling down, in that sense, is the best way to express my feeling. Nobody asked me to do so, and I did this voluntarily," added Tatsutaro while referring to his act of kneeling down on the Marco Polo Bridge in southwest Beijing.

"During the first decade of our freedom, our country has correctly focused on redressing the racial imbalances of the past... sometimes to the exclusion of addressing the class contradiction[s] in our society...The SACP is of the view that the real issue that should be attracting headlines, editorials and commentaries is the fact that capitalism is seriously failing our democracy."

A retrospective overview of the role of India's first prime minister,Jawaharlal Nehru, and the non-aligned foreign policy pursued by the government. Famous words: "India[will] not allow foreign troops on her soil under any circumstances and any pretext."

After the Bush administration yesterday (June 1) lined up numerous officials, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers, to attack Amnesty International for its report that criticizes the administration’s human rights record, the respected human rights organization fired back.

Posada’s presence in the US has posed a major conundrum for the Bush administration. If they protect a person accused of terrorism, it undercuts their threats to other countries suspected of protecting terrorists. On the other hand, Posada is a long-time CIA operative who knows things they prefer not to be publicized.

In 2003, the Bush administration transferred weapons to 18 of the 25 nations engaged in active conflicts. Thirteen of the 25 nations who received weapons were classified by the U.S. State Department as “undemocratic” governments. These 13 governments received over $2.7 billion on U.S. weapons.

He talked about how right-wing think tanks have been campaigning against Social Security with two ideas: the “system is in crisis”, and “privatization is the solution”... Perry described the think tank campaign as a “two-fold lie propagated for 20 years”, and explained why the system is not in crisis.

"...until recently it would have been hard to imagine there would be a widely-reported public debate on legalising the use of torture in Australia...over the past few weeks there has been a lively exchange in the media with some academics, law enforcement officials and military spokespersons calling for a rethinking of what constitutes torture and the circumstances they believe justify its use."

Featured here is the Afterword by Larry Birns and Jessica Leight entitled, 'Haiti- Life Since the Coup'. "The façade of legitimacy furnished by the U.N.’s role in Haiti could very well continue to be used as a smokescreen for ongoing repression by the likes of(Justice Minister) Bernard Gousse, who has operated a reign of terror against those he perceives as his political enemies..."

In a desperate effort to stop a plummeting approval rating, President Bush yesterday dismissed an Amnesty International Human Rights Report that criticized the administration’s treatment of US-held prisoners of war.
[Bush press conference quote,"...absurd...absurd...absurd..."]

The hypocrisy of the United States is stunning in its shamelessness. From nuclear proliferation, to human rights, to due process, the U.S. persistently and arrogantly pursues a policy of do as we say, not as we do.

The parallels between the Bush and Nixon administrations are eerily familiar. Both bullied the press, were/are highly secretive, obsessed over leaks, engage(d) in massive cover-ups and quickly branded aides as disloyal if they dared to raise questions about the President’s policies.

Completely unknown to these young people, and never discussed by recruiters, is the fact that of the 580,000 U.S. troops who served in the six-week 1991 Gulf War, 11,000 are now dead, and by the year 2000, 325,000 were on permanent medical disability from the depleted uranium weaponry and the many other toxic and horrifying conditions they were exposed to.

.. It is not exaggerating to say that the blame can be laid fairly and squarely at the door of one country — the United States...It is time that the politicians of the world listened a little more closely to the biggest world movement there is — the peace movement.

In April 2003, in an interview given while he was in the Dominican Republic, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien declared that the “international community” should not have to wake up with Aristide in power on January 1, 2004, Haiti’s bicentennial

“This is one of the worst examples of an industrialised country government riding roughshod over the rights and interests of working people”, said ICFTU General Secretary Guy Ryder, adding “Workers’ incomes will fall, particularly affecting the most vulnerable, and important employment and health and safety protections will be undermined”.

The Sudanese government should drop charges against all aid workers, including the head of Médecins Sans Frontières in Khartoum, Paul Foreman, who was arrested yesterday and released on bail...Sudanese authorities claim that an MSF report on rape published on March 8 violated Sudanese law and that the report is “false.”

For me, the all out attack by the top leaders of these four big and important unions on the leadership of the AFL-CIO has made me appreciative of the historic contribution of that leadership. In some ways the attack has brought out the best of the AFL-CIO
leadership.

While the meeting recorded in these minutes occurred on July 23, 2002, months before President Bush submitted his resolution on Iraq to the United States Congress, and months before Bush and Blair asked the United Nations to resume its inspections for alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the minutes make clear that Bush had decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by launching a war...