BAGHDAD – The Iraqi Communist Party does not support the proposal of some political blocs to allocate only six seats for minorities in the provincial councils, said Mufid al-Jazairy, a member of Iraq's parliament for the Communist Party, during the parliament session last Monday, Nov. 3rd.

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 6 (acn) Michael Mauricio, president of the Florida Produce company from the US, participating in Havana's International Trade Fair (FIHAV 2008), said he was in favor of an improvement of trade relations between Cuba and his country.

Many people shed tears across the country after President-elect Barack Obama claimed victory Nov. 4th. For many of an older generation – white and Black – the victory was linked to the struggles and sacrifices of the civil rights movement.

In his victory speech on Nov. 4th, President-elect Barack Obama dedicated his victory to the American people. "I will never forget," he said, "who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you."

“I’ve been a fisherman for fifteen years now, ever since I was fifteen years old. My father was a fisherman and so was my grandfather. I have spent half my life at sea. But every day we face problems from the Israeli gunboats: they follow us, and then they start shooting at us because they want to force us to stop working.”

November 4, 2008, will be remembered as the night Americans cried for joy. It was not only the hundred thousand partisan Chicagoans gathered in Grant Park that were moved to rapture. Good people across the nation wept with gratitude that America at last had taken a giant step to overcome its racism.

My right knee is wrapped. My left ankle is iced. I lost the nail on my right big toe, and have about 20 blisters and a similar number of bruises on both of my feet.

Barack Obama unquestionably won the presidential elections in the United States. However, beyond his successful, well-organized and coherent electoral campaign, his overwhelming victory still leaves space for different interpretations.

Striking a unifying theme, President-elect Barack Obama told a crowd of an estimated 1 million people in Chicago, Illinois and millions watching and listening around the world, that "America is not and never has been just a collection of red states and blue states."

By the time this article is finished, it will be less than 24 hours before Barack Obama is elected President of the United States and thus forced, no doubt, to deal with the worst economic crisis ever to fall to the lot of any US heads of state right on Inauguration Day.

The mythology of unfettered functioning of markets being best for the economy and society has been blown sky high. So serious is the situation, that International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Dominique Strauss-Kahn last month warned that US and EU banks have pushed the global financial system to the "brink of systemic meltdown."

Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair.

LAS TUNAS, Cuba, Nov 3 (acn) The newly restored Cadillac Hotel located in Las Tunas city, in eastern Cuba, reopened its doors in Las Tunas city, in eastern Cuba.

Discussions of the current world economic crisis tend to focus exclusively on the bursting of the housing bubble in the United States. This no doubt is the immediate cause of the crisis, but underlying its operation is the fact that the stimulus for booms in contemporary capitalism has increasingly come from such bubbles.

The financial crisis has global effects. It has driven the world economy into a recession resulting in extreme stock price losses and increasing effects on the material economy in large extent, as currently experienced in the German automobile industry.

The Iraqi Communist Party organized a large meeting in Baghdad on Friday 30-10-2008 to present its position on the proposed Iraq-US Agreement. The meeting, attended by about 1,000 people, was addressed by Hamid Majeed Mousa, the Secretary of the Central Committee of the party.

Like the nationalization of Northern Rock in Britain, US President George W Bush's plan to bail out Wall Street finance corporations to the tune of $700 billion has spread ideological confusion far and wide.

Food, water, health and sanitation facilities at several villages on the Uganda-Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border are overstretched as civilians continue to pour into Uganda, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said on 31 October.

Today I read that the US Federal Reserve had opened a new line of credit for the central banks of Mexico, Brazil, South Korea and Singapore.

Barack Obama has shown modern leadership ability. He works collectively, makes decisions carefully, establishes broad policy outlines and then seeks specific policy solutions that fit the outline and changing conditions.