20,000 US troops...will descend on Shoalwater Bay in 2007 in the Talisman Sabre joint exercises for warfare training and weapons experimentation. Greens leader Bob Brown, labelling the decision "shocking", said, "We are not the 51st state of America. It would be better if the US found a bombing range near Crawford, Texas [the location of George W Bush’s ranch] for their exercises."

ON November 14 the Ministry of Public Health, in the name of the Cuban people, presented certificates of recognition to the first doctors and dentists who graduated thanks to the Revolution 40 years ago. The oath taken by that group included renouncing private medicine, the duty to expand rural medical services, to promote preventive health care among the population and to providing selfless aid to needy peoples...

Hillary's letter said that she enclosed the questionnaire to help gauge concern about "the extreme Bush agenda." But on the central foreign policy initiative of Bush's agenda, she has been complicit. When she voted to authorize the Iraq war, and today when she echoes White House talking points in criticizing advocates of withdrawal.

The former nuclear technician made international headlines in 1986 when he revealed to the world that Israel had undertaken a covert nuclear weapons program at the Dimona nuclear facility. His revelations led independent experts to confirm that Israel has 100 to 200 nuclear bombs.

While discussions with the recently disaffiliated national unions continue, the AFL-CIO is moving forward with a Solidarity Charter program that will unite the labor movement at the local level. The program reflects changes made in discussions with the Change to Win national unions.

I saw the NOVA special on New Orleans, "The Storm that Drowned a City." It gave some useful chronology, but in an hour-long program on the genesis and history of the storm, they avoided raising even the possibility that the Bush administration may have contributed to the disaster.

Since August, when I wanted to ask you the question: For what noble cause did you kill Casey and the others, over 200 more of our brave young men and women have been killed in the charade of Iraq. We can only guess how many innocent Iraqis have been slaughtered. You still have not answered my question.

As the contaminated swathe of water approached the capital city of Heilongjiang Province, local residents finally heard an apology from neighbouring Jilin Province, where an explosion in a chemical plant belonging to Jilin Petrochemical Corporation on November 13 caused the problem.

Sunday’s New York Times had an article by suburban-stay-safely-home-while-others-die pro-war columnist David Brooks taking Murtha to task... One senses that the armchair warriors are really frustrated with Murtha for having spoken up...The sectarian violence is the result of the American invasion and is prolonged and exacerbated by the occupation.

Delphi, which declared bankruptcy Oct. 8, wants to lower wages by more than 60 percent, making it even harder for workers to pay the higher health care premiums, while salaried employees pay about the same cost for health care premiums next year as they did this year.

The survey, conducted by the ministries of counter narcotics and public health over 2005, revealed that there were at least 920,000 drug users in Afghanistan, including about 150,000 who take opium, 50,000 using heroin and 520,000 taking hashish.

Habre was detained last week in Senegal, where he has been in exile for the past 15 years, pending a decision by the court on whether to extradite him for alleged human rights abuse during his 1982-1990 rule...A Chadian truth commission accused him in 1992 of responsibility for at least 40,000 political killings and mass torture.

The fact is that sports is a bigger business than US Steel. If players made less, it wouldn't mean lower ticket prices; only that George Steinbrenner would have another gold mast on his yacht. Of course, salaries for top athletes are obscene, but certainly far less obscene than what's made in the owner's box.

Out of the $5.8 billion pledged by the world to Pakistan, only $1.9 billion are grants, the rest are loans that will plunge the country into further debt and impoverish the people, even as finance charges, that become profits of banks in the developed world, take a larger chunk out of the poor country’s budget...

The latest round of violence reflects the intensification of conflict throughout the Darfur region since mid-September. According to an ICRC statement, the fighting in Gereida area involved a volatile mix of various armed groups, illustrating the complex nature of the Darfur conflict.

How did the universe begin? Where do the galaxies, stars, and planets come from? These questions have puzzled humans since they first looked up.

The Iraq occupation continues and people die every day in attacks and counter-attacks, mostly Iraqis, but also Americans. The number is now above 2,000 and rising.

The announcement that the United States will start sending long range B-52 and B-51 bomber aircraft as well as stealth bombers for training exercises – including bombing practice – in the Northern Territory signals the latest stage in preparation for US aggression in the region.

We, the undersigned communist and workers parties participating in the International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties in Athens, 18-20 November 2005, express our profound and internationalist solidarity with the struggle of the Iraqi people for peace, sovereignty and social progress in their country.

Our Iraqi Party Organization in Al-Thawra City in Baghdad held its first open mass event today as part of preparations for the elections, with a convoy of cars starting off from the party office in the district at 4.00 pm (22 Nov. 2005).