No Legal Arguments to Retain Cuban Five
'There are no legal arguments to retain them,' said Weinglass, who is one of the defense attorneys. 'The next step should be to release them from the high-security prisons where they have been held in violation of US law,' he added.
Genocidal Choke-hold in Darfur: Khartoum's continuing restriction of humanitarian aid
The UN World Food Program, as well as its implementing partners in the humanitarian community, is currently attempting to respond to the food needs of 3.5 million human beings in Darfur. The number of conflict-affected persons is even greater if we consider those who need medical and other humanitarian assistance.
In Declaring Success in Colombia, Bush and Uribe Distort the Realities of their Drug War
Members of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), the right-wing group of vigilantes who have been pinpointed for most of the country's on average 4,000 politically motivated killings per year and with whom Uribe has some personal and family ties, will be safe even from prosecution in U.S. courts because the Bush administration surrendered its right to seek their extradition at the behest of Uribe.
Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team
Scandal-plagued Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President Dick was secretly working with one of Iran’s top nuclear program officials on natural gas related projects and, allegedly, selling the officials' oil development company key components for a nuclear reactor, according to Halliburton sources with intimate knowledge into both companies’ business dealings.
Washington's Failed Latin America/Caribbean Relations
U.S.-Latin American policy has been marked by erratic and often discontinuous relations with its southern neighbors, betraying an ambivalence toward the region that does not augur well for its future political development.
Colombia: Demobilization Policy a 'Farce'
The government of Colombia’s failed policy of demobilizing right-wing paramilitary groups is in fact strengthening their power without furthering a genuine peace, according to a report based on interviews with former paramilitaries, government officials, and 'other insiders' published by Human Rights Watch earlier this week.
Communist Party Statement on CAFTA
CAFTA is modeled on the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) that has destroyed communities, labor and environmental standards, and jobs for over a decade. CAFTA will bring more of the same. The agreement will only benefit the large transnational corporations, particularly those based in the U.S; it will undermine local laws, protections and regulations in the name of 'free trade'; it will devastate small farmers and indigenous communities; it is a blow against national independence, sustainable development and self-sufficiency.
In the Wake of John Garang's Death: Prospects for Peace in Sudan
The death of Dr. John Garang de Mabior, longtime leader of the struggle for a just peace in southern Sudan, casts an ominous shadow over the prospects for sustaining the north/south peace agreement signed this past January in Nairobi. For the unfortunate truth is that there is no leader within Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) that has his qualities of leadership, realism, wide experience, and deep intelligence.
Noriega, Bolton and Condoleezza Rice’s New Financial Subsidy to Rightwing Cuban America
Last Thursday, in a move that further cheapened the Bush administration’s already tawdry Latin American policy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced the creation of a new State Department staff position to implement recommendations of the U.S. Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, a body which hopes to “accelerate the demise” of Cuban President Fidel Castro’s government.
CHA-CHA Part of US Agenda, not Arroyo's Idea
It is not a proposal from former Pres. Fidel Ramos, nor a pending program of Pres. Arroyo, but a longstanding agenda of the United States, says IBON Foundation of Malacañang's renewed calls for Charter change (Cha-cha).
