'Now we have so many butchers in Iraq': Interview with Faik Batti
Editor’s Note: Faik Batti has been a member of the central committee of the Iraqi Communist Party since 1993. He was a journalist and historian of the leftist press in Iraq. After an exile of 25 years, Batti returned to Iraq in 2003.
Where Were You When They Took Your Rights Away?
Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation's capital in protest?
Backpedaling at the IRS
The New York Times reported this week that the Bush administration is eliminating almost half of the lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service who audit the tax returns of the wealthiest Americans.
Alienating the Beating Heart of Middle East
The United States is seeking a “new Middle East” by alienating the Syrian beating heart of the strategic region. Washington wants Syria to cooperate as near as in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon and as far as in Iran but is sending her messages and messengers all around the region except to Damascus.
The Middle East in Crisis
This deadly and destructive war has killed hundreds, wounded thousands, and uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. The destruction of infrastructure from houses to hospitals, to transportation and communications systems, to power grids has been massive.
More to Lebanon War than Meets the Eye
At first glance, history seems to repeat itself in Lebanon, where a lengthy cold war is intermittently interrupted by an extreme show of violence as traditional players quickly sprint into action, stacking their support behind one party or the other.
Tony Blair doesn't talk for us
TONY Blair continues to parrot platitudes about deeply regretting 'the loss of innocent life in the Lebanon and Israel' while backing the US-Israeli battle plan.
Corn-based Ethanol and the Quest to Replace Fossil Fuel
Contrary to the usual outcome of Washington’s subsidies to U.S. farmers, recent grants for ethanol producers could actually improve many lives, both at home and abroad.
For an Immediate Cease of Fire
The party believes that an international pressure for an immediate cease fire is the best expression of solidarity that our people can get in order to stop the bloodshed and massacres.
European Parliament Members Travel to Lebanon
Representatives of the parties of the European Left which belong to the Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the party announced at a Press Conference in Athens today the visit of a delegation of the European Left party to Lebanon.
