AFL-CIO Convention Calls for Troop Withdrawal from Iraq
On the second day of its convention in Chicago, the AFL-CIO took a historic step, calling for the rapid withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and an end to the country's occupation. Public attention has focused largely on the split in US labor and the decision by two of the federation's largest unions to leave.
Republican Congress Re-authorizes Repressive Patriot Act
ast week the Republican-controlled Senate voted to make permanent most of the provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Democrats blocked a measure favored by the Bush administration that would have allowed the FBI to seek 'administrative' subpoenas that do not require a judge’s approval.
Millionaires United, Will Never Be Defeated
I was reading the Sunday New York Times this week, the 'newspaper of record' as they say in international establishment circles to understand what was the range of choices in what I was expected to think.
Indo-US Nuclear Deal
THE Nuclear deal entered into by India and the US as part of the Indo-US Agreement signed by president Bush and Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh during the latter's recent visit to the US has been received differently by diverse quarters in India and abroad.
SUDAN: Fears for SPLM/A chairman as helicopter goes missing
A statement issued at 1:00 am (2200 GMT) on Sunday by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's office said Garang, who had been visiting Museveni's ranch in western Uganda, was flying in a Ugandan presidential MI-72 helicopter.
