Gereida, where 120,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are gathered, was described as the "epicentre of the severe humanitarian situation"...Leaders in displaced communities said more than 300 villages around Gereida had been abandoned because of the threat of attack since November 2005.

[Maureen and Michael Hearn] are tireless in their efforts for peace and can’t understand why all Americans haven’t awakened to the lies that took us to war, the deaths of more than 2,400 US troops in Iraq, the maimed and brain damaged and the violence that continues to kill so many Iraqis.

Monday, 8 May, will be one of our red letter days this year. On this day we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the adoption of our Constitution on 8 May 1996.

The UN estimates that some 3.6 million people are affected by conflict in Darfur, of whom 1.8 million are internally displaced and 200,000 have fled to neighbouring Chad.

The Senate will soon vote on the nomination of Terrence Boyle to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Democrats have blocked his nomination, owing to his poor judicial record.

Four days after President Evo Morales exploded with a resounding decree which nationalized Bolivia’s natural gas resource and rattled the global economy, multinational energy corporations, and regional leaders alike, the uproar over the decision has begun to subside.

Rumsfeld not only did not rely on the CIA.  He created his own "intelligence" operation in the Pentagon called the Office of Special Plans.  Has the Washington Post heard about this?

It was an almost theatrical strategic move. On May 1, his 100th day in office, Bolivian president Evo Morales decreed the nationalization of the country’s natural gas industry.

Barry Bonds is currently two home runs away from passing Babe Ruth on the lifetime home run list and he is under investigation.

Rebels from western Darfur, most of them black, mounted their anti-government campaign in 2003 accusing Arab-dominated Khartoum of sidelining and neglecting the desert region the size of France.

A population that is not educated is easily led...Withholding real education is the surest way to keep people down, to neuter opposition and mute dissent, to keep a foot on their necks.

For the promotion of democracy in the one country that needs it the most, the US, the newly founded International Endowment for Democracy (IED) seeks to raise international funds to assist pro-democracy groups within the US.

Last week in Miami, Luis Posada Carriles´s accomplice in the downing of the Cuban passenger plane that was blown out of the sky with 73 innocent people on board on October 6, 1976 was interviewed by Juan Manuel Cao of Channel 41 in Miami. His name is Orlando Bosch.

Protester Gloria Tatum, 62, was injured at a protest against Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense from when she was shouting at Rumsfeld, and has a bruise on her back, Tatum says.

Grant Woods, a former public defender, judge pro tempore and Attorney General, tells Prensa Latina... “there is no question in my mind that these Five did not receive a fair trial because the case was tried in Miami.”

Dick DeVos, co-owner of Amway, will likely win the Republican Party primary for the governor’s race in Michigan. Here are ten things you need to know about his real agenda.

Even if the collected sum of $70 million by the Arab League transferred, it would be less than one-third of the subsidies to enable the Palestinian government to pay due salaries for March and April as the needed total sum is $240 million.

Recently I heard that our military budget for this year is now up to almost a trillion dollars. This figure is truly astounding, and it boggles the mind to consider how much of our precious resources both in manpower and raw materials this represents for us as a nation.

The Wall Street Journal Signals Evo Morales Is Now A US Target...Bolivian law is clear that the state owns the resources in the country. Up to now it's allowed foreign investors to operate the fields and take the majority share of production from them to sell for their gain.

On Monday, May 1, over a million people filled the streets of Los Angeles, with hundreds of thousands more in Chicago, New York, and cities and towns throughout this country.