AFL-CIO:News for Working Families
To help pay for the huge tax cut, Bush’s Fiscal Year 2007 budget will slash $65 billion from health care, education, job training, low-income, food, child care and other domestic programs that help families that aren’t so wealthy.
NIGERIA: “Nobody has told us that it is bird flu”, says farm official
Donors in January promised Africa US$ 150 million to tackle bird flu at a special conference in China, and part of those funds were intended for compensation but none of the funds have arrived yet, according to pan-African body the African Union.
Afghanistan: No alternative to opium, say farmers
“We don’t have any choice about cultivating poppies because it’s the only means for our survival,“ said Amir Mohammad, 30, another farmer in the village, as he lanced the bulbous poppy heads to encourage the precious fluid to ooze out.
Bush Administration Ignored Coal Mine Safety Issues
In the last month 16 coal miners have died in West Virginia.
NO JUSTICE, NO PIZZA!
The battle began last June when a young woman came to Parkdale Community Legal Services claiming that $8000 of her wages went unpaid.
Massachusetts: Health Care Amendment
The Health Care Constitutional Amendment is receiving growing support as more and more groups see it as an essential foundation for real reform.
Latin America: Beginning of a new era?
The electoral victory of Cde Morales in Bolivia marks a welcome and continuing shift of Latin American politics towards the left.
Bush's Budget: Deadly Priorities
To pay for the increase in military spending, Bush has proposed potentially devastating cuts in funding to already under-funded social services.
Change Congress in November
President Bush’s uninspiring State of the Union speech was a smokescreen to conceal this administration’s criminal actions.
'The Devil Wears Prada:' Washington’s Indecent Game Against Venezuela
With the State Department’s unwarranted recent expulsion of Venezuelan diplomat Jeny Figueredo from her post as second-in-command of that country’s Washington’s embassy, its conflict with Caracas has reached its most stressful phase yet.
