Korean blues
PESSIMISM is the prevailing mood in South Korea these days when you talk with politicians and trade unionists. Relations with the United States over what to do about North Korea are going from bad to worse. Tensions are evident.
Too Close for Comfort: El Salvador Ratchets Up its U.S. Ties
The State Department’s Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) is currently in the initial stages of negotiating plans with Salvadoran officials to establish an International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) at La Comalapa, with the potential for additional use of an existing Salvadoran police training headquarters in Santa Tecla.
Australia: Driving towards dictatorship
As the crimes against humanity by the occupation forces continue in Iraq and Afghanistan, here in Australia the Howard government is spending more taxpayers’ money on another fear campaign. A $2.2 million three-week advertising blitz telling Australians to be vigilant but not alarmed about terrorism.
Japan Press Weekly : Only the removal of U.S. bases can ensure the end of U.S. military crimes
U.S. military personnel numbering 28,000 in Okinawa and 14,000 in other areas are stationed in Japan. This is the primary cause of frequent U.S. crimes and accidents. U.S. military bases are heavily concentrated in Okinawa with many young marines feeling anxiety about being deployed to wars abroad.
‘Imperialism and religious fundamentalism feed each other’ say Communists
Mary Davis, editor of the Communist Party of Britain’s theoretical journal Communist Review, argued that religious ideas tend to mask class analysis and class contradictions - often unwittingly - and so helped maintain the ruling class in power.
A New Era for the German Left?
On Sunday, the special congress of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), meeting in what was once East Berlin, agreed to join in an alliance with the new, far smaller but dynamic Electoral Alternative for Jobs and Social Justice (WASG)...The decision meant adapting the new name agreed on by the two organizations: The Left Party or the Left (Die Linkspartei or Die Linke).
Manmohan Singh and Colonialism
WHY should one concern oneself with what prime minister Manmohan Singh had to say at Oxford on the occasion of his receiving an honorary D Litt? Not just because he is the prime minister. True, what the prime minister of India has to say even on such a quasi-academic occasion is not without significance.
Colombian nightmares
The main Colombian magazine, Semana boasts that the Colombian president – President Uribe – is 'an expert in negotiation,' who 'studied the peaceful resolution of conflicts at Harvard,' and is 'an excellent administrator,' who ‘reduced the number of State employees in the Antioquian region from 14,000 to 5,700 people.
Baseball, the Olympics and Cuba
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has dropped baseball, which Americans, myself included, have considered our 'past-time' since the early 20th century, for the 2012 Olympics and beyond. Americans should be angry at this and their leaders should be protesting.
The World Festival of Students and Youth - After August, What’s Next?
The Venezuelan revolution must be defended as an example to all of Latin America and to the world. In Venezuela, the people rose. From the grass roots level, the people have founded their own democracy...The U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Campaign opposes all forms of intervention by the U.S. government and its agencies in Venezuela...
