India: Intensifying Popular Struggles - CP of India(M)
Any government sensitive to the people’s woes would have immediately sought to redress the people’s grievances. Not so, however, with the BJP. Mounting fresh economic assaults on the people, while seeking to sharpen communal polarisation, has become the recipe of BJP’s governance.
Book Review: Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington
'I TOLD the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims, did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11.'
Movie Review: The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is about mental illness left untreated. Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) is a young woman with a complex of serious but treatable mental disorders that cause her to hallucinate, convulse, and mutilate herself. She has all medical care withheld from her on advice of her family priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson), who is convinced that she is possessed by demons.
AFL-CIO: Union Hurricane Relief News Briefs
The day after Bush signed the executive order that allows contractors awarded federal money to help rebuild the Hurricane Katrina devastated Gulf Coast to pay substandard wages to construction workers, the U.S. Department of Labor waived most federal affirmative action laws for contractors.
Brazil: Doing Right By Latin America's Behemoth
The democratic consolidation in Brazil cannot be achieved without attacking corruption head on...Since the abuse of power serves the interests of the powerful and the rich, to the detriment of the poor, widespread corruption, in turn, worsens the level of inequality.
America: Like a Rolling Stone
For days, I've wrestled with a rank despair born of a president's non-response to a devastating hurricane in New Orleans and of presidential indifference to an endless, immoral war in Iraq. I am nauseous from the undisguised, ugly neglect of the American ideal by those entrusted to protect and defend it. And I no longer know what to say or do.
KYRGYZSTAN: Uzbek asylum seekers live in secrecy and fear
Makhmud, in common with many other Uzbeks from Andijan living clandestinely across the border since the blood-letting, said he feels he is on the run and still shudders at every knock on the door of the house of his relatives - where he stays...Local Kyrgyz people said they had been offered bribes by Uzbek police looking for the exiles.
Release Scott Parkin!
The weekend arrest in Melbourne of US peace activist Scott Parkin exposes the potential for abuse inherent in the Howard Government's anti-terrorist laws. At a time when Australians are already deeply concerned about the Howard Government's attacks on free speech and the right to protest in the name of fighting terrorism, the silencing of a peace activist for the `crime' of satirising US policy will only confirm many people's worst fears.' said Greenpeace Australia Pacific spokesperson Dan Cass.
China, Mexico agree to enrich strategic partnership
Mexico has become China's second largest trading partner in Latin America after Brazil. Bilateral trade exceeded 7 billion US dollars in 2004, 44 percent higher than the previous year, and China's investment in Mexico rose to nearly 200 million dollars.
AFL-CIO: Bush Uses Disaster to Ram Through Low-Wage Work
With the federal government poised to spend more than $50 billion to rebuild areas destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, the AFL-CIO is calling on Congress to reverse President George W. Bush’s Sept. 8 executive order that would allow contractors to pay substandard wages to construction workers in the affected areas.
