'Deep Throat': Watergate Proves that Presidents Break Laws
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.
Saddening failure of the NPT[Non-Proliferation Treaty] Review Conference
.. 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.
Uzbekistan: America’s Shameless Hypocrisy
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.
Dying in Iraq is not a career choice
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.
Canadian complicity in the Haitian crisis
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
Australia: New laws will lead to unprecedented exploitation of workers
“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”.
Darfur: Arrest War Criminals, Not Aid Workers
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.”
AFL-CIO and Differences in Labor
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.
Media Black Out Downing Street Minutes
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...
ZIMBABWE: Livelihoods and shelter go up in flames
A housing shortage mixed with grinding poverty has led to the common practice of home owners renting out overcrowded illegal shacks, built literally in their backyards, to families scrabbling to make a living in the city...The Zimbabwe National Pastors Conference condemned the crackdown in a statement and urged the government to make war on poverty, not the poor.
