Republican Hypocrisy on LGBT Rights is Light Years Behind Cuba
As civil rights activists in the US prepare to defend the recent landmark California State Supreme Court ruling overturning a state ban on gay marriage against a Republican Party-led backlash, Cuba is launching a campaign to combat homophobia in that island country.
Natural disasters and sovereignty
The natural disasters that have caused so much destruction and loss of life in recent times are going to continue and perhaps become more frequent and destructive.
International Access in Myanmar 'Inadequate'
BANGKOK, 20 May 2008 (IRIN) - More than two weeks after Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, only 500,000 of the estimated 2.4 million people affected have received some form of international assistance thus far, according to the UN.
Philip Bobbitt's 'Terror and Consent': The Wars for the 21st Century
Bobbitt is a distinguished professor of constitutional law holding degrees from Princeton, Yale and Oxford. He has served in important government positions under Presidents Carter, Bush 1 and Clinton. He is now at both the University of Texas and Columbia University.
Bush, McCain are Responsible for Foreign Policy Failures
In a speech May 16 in Watertown, South Dakota, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama rejected criticisms this week leveled by George Bush in the Israeli parliament about Obama's plans for a diplomatic surge to bring peace to Iraq, Iran and the Middle East.
The War Machine: Or How to Manipulate Reality
Since 2002, the Pentagon has been seeking evidence that intimately relates President Chávez and his government with the FARC. Top secret documents from the Department of Defense (that we have declassified under FOIA) evidence that the Pentagon has been unable to find proof of a clandestine, subversive relationship between the Venezuelan government and the FARC.
Venezuela: Data Found on Captured Laptops Planted
Venezuela’s record clearly shows that it is a country that neither tolerates nor supports terrorism. However, since 2006, the U.S. State Department has certified Venezuela as “not cooperating fully” with anti-terror efforts.
Forests Disappearing in Central America
San Salvador, May 13 (Prensa Latina) The absence of combined Central American policies to protect forests is alarming some governments there.
Book Review: Common Wealth
Economists…some so intent on their money, not able to truly release themselves from their fundamental neoliberal values, afraid to admit that many of the policies they are advocating fall squarely into the rubric of 'socialism.'
US Terrorism Report: Selective Data, Wrong Lessons
The data provided in the US State Department's annual terrorism report for 2007 points to some interesting if puzzling conclusions. The much publicized document, made available 30 April via the State Department's website, makes no secret of the fact that Al-Qaeda is back, strong as ever.
