Wal-Mart Class Action Lawsuit Goes Forward
The largest class-action lawsuit in U.S. history filed against Wal-Mart will go forward to trial. A lawsuit filed on behalf of current and former Wal-Mart employees that claims the company systematically discriminated against women workers won a major victory in federal court earlier this week.
El neoliberalismo es responsable por deterioro climático
Con motivo del reciente informe internacional sobre calentamiento climático, el Partido Comunista de Chile (PCCh) denunció hoy los efectos catastróficos que el neoliberalismo produce en la geografía física y humana chilena y mundial.
Japan and U.S. discuss joint operation plans against North Korea
Aiming at finishing the work by the end of September, the Japanese and U.S. governments are working on the revision of the 2001 Japan-U.S. joint operation plans in order to deal with possible contingencies on the Korean Peninsula.
Lebanon: Long-term environmental challenges ahead
Seven months after Israel bombed the coastal Jiyyeh power plant in the south of Beirut, the Mediterranean Sea still spews oil onto Lebanon's shores, and beach sand shifts to reveal oil slicks that could not be detected before, fishermen say.
Bush health care plan: ‘You’re on your own’
Health care advocates slammed President Bush’s latest health care proposals as free-market fantasy that would dismantle employer-provided health coverage, enrich insurance companies and worsen the nation’s health care crisis.
Fidel Castro: Life is truer than death
Washington and Wall Street want him to die. And surely there are folks out there who have been wishing him a quick death — the sooner he dies, the better, as they would say — while he has survived as many as 638 assassination attempts on him, mostly credited to the US government and its secret services.
Bush Can't Spin Way Out of Hellish Conditions in Iraq
President Bush blaming the press for exaggerating conditions in Iraq is like the Devil accusing Dante of defamation for writing 'The Inferno.'
Bush Ain't Listening – It's Time to Turn Up the Volume
On November 7th 2006, the people demanded an end to the Iraq war, but the Republicans and Bush simply aren't listening.
Implications of Bush's request for record-high military expenditure
The 716.5-billion-U.S.-dollar military budget requested from Congress by U.S. President George W. Bush earlier this week has set new records and raised many eyebrows both at home and abroad.
Controversy in Uruguayan government over Bush’s March visit
United States President George Bush will be visiting Uruguay next March 8/9 as part of a Latinamerican tour that also includes Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia, was announced Wednesday in Montevideo.
