Christian Peacemaker Teams Respond to Presidential Address
From the failure to rebuild basic civilian infrastucture to the thousands of Iraqi detainees in US Detention Centres to the tens of thousands of civilian casualties and injuries, CPT believes that the United States and Coalition Forces war has failed to bring peace and true democracy to Iraq.
The Border Is a Common Ground between Us
The House of Representatives has just passed HR 4437, by Wisconsin Republican James Sensenbrenner, incredibly with the votes of over 30 Democrats. It is the most repressive immigration bill in decades, and would deprive immigrants of important due process rights, divide families, criminalize undocumented status, and drive those without papers even further underground.
Millennium Development Goals Are Failing
IN the year 2000, the UN General Assembly adopted the Millennium Declaration, in which world leaders committed to achieving a set of eight goals by 2015. Since then, these Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, have become the latest buzzword at different levels of the international development aid industry, and have spawned substantial employment generation for what are now called 'development practitioners.'
The Solution We Aren't Considering
There is a solution that most of us are not seriously considering but should be. We are all increasingly aware of the problem: a world that lacks peace, democracy, an equitable distribution of resources, and practices that can be sustained without risking the viability of human life.
AFGHANISTAN: Government criticises UN report on poppy cultivation
The desperately poor country now produces about 87 percent of the global crop, the base for nearly all the heroin consumed in Western countries. The UN and the government have estimated the total export value of Afghanistan's opium in 2005 at US $2.7 billion, equivalent to 52 percent of the country's official gross domestic product.
Spying On Us: Bush's Drive to a Police State
ow it is common knowledge that there are secret courts, detention programs, searches, seizures and wiretappings of U.S. citizens without warrant based on what are essentially secret determinations of probable cause, meaning that evidence about their connection to terrorism or their involvement with any group deemed an 'aid international terrorism' is kept secret.
Pakistan: Acute respiratory infections increasing among quake survivors
Although no major epidemics have been reported in earthquake-hit areas of northern Pakistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, the steady increase in acute respiratory infection (ARI) in the area continues due to freezing temperature at nights and overcrowded tents, where the overwhelming majority of survivors live
Congress: The Grinch that Stole the Holidays?
One of the most popular toys this holiday season—the $120 Roboraptor—would cost three days’ wages for a parent making the minimum wage, according to congressional supporters of an increased minimum wage...The federal minimum wage has been set at $5.15 an hour since 1997 and congressional Republicans repeatedly have blocked attempts to increase it
The Facts About Venezuela's Parliamentary Elections
In their reports, the international observers of these elections from the EU and the OAS declared them fair and transparent, even though there was some criticism leveled at the CNE since 41% of the voters had problems understanding the automated system. A recent opinion poll ... indicated that 74% of all Venezuelans were satisfied with their democratic system
