In the poll, which was made between September 14-16, 54.1 percent of those polled believed that there was no need for weapons in Gaza Strip other than that of the Palestinian security services, while 58.7 percent believed the PNA was capable of enforcing law and order in Gaza after the withdrawal.

In his first act after the storm, Bush issued an executive order taking wage protections away from construction workers who will rebuild the Gulf Coast. The Bush administration also is using the disaster to attack federal standards by lifting many affirmative action rules for reconstruction contracts and suspending regulations limiting the number of hours truckers can drive when transporting fuel.

The baby is being detained pending payment of her hospital bill, so Torto since her discharge three weeks ago has been visiting the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit at Accra’s Korle Bu teaching hospital twice a day to care for him...More than a third of the 74 women in the neo-natal ICU too are unable to pay.

In a patronizingly racist and pro-imperialist article this past week the Los Angeles Times ("Frustrated U.S. Finds Few Willing to Join Anti-Chavez Coalition"), authors Chris Kraul and Paul Richter echoed the Bush administration’s self-imposed conundrum of "what to do with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez?"

In a victory speech Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt for 24 years, said: “I will work on creating a modern society for free citizens in a democratic country.”...On Saturday, a coalition of several opposition groups including the leftist Tagammu Party, the Islamist Labour Party and the Kifaya Movement —all of which boycotted the election—held a 1,000-strong demonstration in downtown Cairo.

The Festival’s inaugural event was set to begin at 7:30 p.m. on September 15, under the slogan "Theater in defense of humanity," with a passacaglia parading from El Quijote Park at 23rd and J to the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Tribunal, where several Cuban theater companies and Les Grandes Personnes company from France plan to evoke the mythical Cervantes character.

Chavez went on to say that the headquarters of the UN should be moved, mainly because of the illegal action the U.S. government has engaged in, particularly with its war against Iraq. He pointed out that the U.S. invaded Iraq on the pretense of the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, but that these were not found there.

Despite President Bush’s rhetorical gesture at accountability for his administration’s disastrous failure to respond swiftly to Hurricane Katrina, former FEMA head and Bush-Cheney campaign official, Michael Brown, appears to be the fall guy.

Take action by demanding the truth about Bush's drive to the Iraq war, protect civil liberties by joining the struggle against the Patriot Act, protect women's reproductive rights, and demand that the Senate block John Roberts.

About 12.4 million Afghans are eligible to vote in Sunday's two simultaneous elections for the 249-seat Wolesi Jirga (lower house of parliament), contested by over 2,700 candidates, and in 34 separate provincial council elections contested by over 3,000 hopefuls.

While federal disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina made bad matters much worse, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. stepped up to ease the suffering of those who needed help without delay. The corporation’s advanced supply chain played a big part in providing those in harm's way with essential items, namely food, fuel and water.

As Republicans celebrate the anniversary of eight years in a row without a minimum wage increase this September, it is increasingly clear that the lowest paid workers in the US need a raise. The poverty and inequality exposed by the Katrina disaster proves this more than ever before. Because low wages are a primary cause of poverty, it is time to raise the federal minimum wage.

The Brazilian political crisis has entered its fourth month on Wednesday following criticism of the chair of the Chamber of Deputies and seventeen of its members amidst dropping ratings for Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Hurricane Katrina will likely be our nation’s worst national disaster... If we didn’t have so many National Guard troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan we could be doing more, and doing it quicker. We need them to come home.

A funeral services company which recently learned that one of its subsidiaries is negotiating a lucrative contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to remove dead bodies in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, paid $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit several years ago alleging the company desecrated thousands of corpses, and dumped bodies into mass graves.

College student indebtedness grows as students find covering rising costs impossible. Fight Bush's decision to force down wages for Gulf Coast workers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Express support for Korean hotel workers. Despite right-wing lies, the gender wage gap persists and costs women and their families hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Questioning of John Roberts, President Bush's pick to replace the late William H. Rehnquist as Supreme Court Chief Justice, will continue Wednesday, in the face of complaints that Roberts is deflecting and evading specific answers to questions.

With people still stranded on rooftops and bodies floating in the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration did what it has always done best: it moved with lightning speed to dole out lucrative contracts to private corporations.

It took President Bush 13 days to take responsibility for his failure to respond adequately and swiftly to Hurricane Katrina, which cost the lives of probably several thousand people. But then again, he didn’t quite accept accountability as he added, with the grace of a fourth grader who doesn’t want to accept all of the punishment, "to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right."

John Roberts is testifying in a cool and calculating way, letting everyone in Washington know that he will play their game, the game that cynical Europeans identify with the "political class," meaning the functionaries from the right schools who staff the executive agencies and the inner councils of the major political parties.