Foreign Affairs

International News 2005

(Most recent articles at top of list.)

• In Worker's Death, View of China's Harsh Justice
• Six Killed, 45 Injured in Indonesia Bombing
• Testing Drugs on India's Poor
• In Burma, a Setback on AIDS
• Aid Agencies Predicted Winter Disaster - Now It Is Reality for People of Kashmir
• The African Union Must Not Pay Khartoum Tribute! (Le Figaro)
• Two Women, Two Cancers, Two Healthcare Systems (Tom O'Brien)
• Facing Servitude, Ethiopian Girls Run for a Better Life
• Argentine Workers Take Control
• Villagers Block Roads around US Steel Serbia to Protest Pollution
• South Korean Scientist Fabricated Landmark Stem Cell Research
• Pinochet Fingerprinted, Photographed by Chilean Police
• British Biologist Uses Carbon Trading to Grow Forests
• Putin's Economic Adviser Resigns, Says Russia "Not Free"
• India Stopping Theft of Ancient Knowledge
• Tangled Strands in Fight over Peru Gold Mine
• Below a Mountain of Wealth, a River of Waste
• North Koreans Toil Abroad under Grim Conditions
• Why European Women Are Turning to Islam
• US Marines Charged with Rape in Philippines
• Seeking a Public Voice on China's "Angry River"
• Indonesia: A Wave of Memories
• Bangladesh: India Celebrates an Illusory "Victory" (J. Sri Raman)
• China's Military Power Alarms Tokyo
• Throwaway Christmas
• Fears for Dwindling Forests in Pakistani Quake Zone
• Japanese Whalers and Greenpeace in Remote Ocean Battle
• The Scenario of a Nuclear Iran (Jacques Amalric)
• US Research "Endangered Amazon Villagers"
• Kong Yee Sai Mau: The Battle of Hong Kong (Tiwari and Solnit)
• Aid, Labor Groups Say WTO Deal Betrays Poor
• US Vets Join Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims
• Deputy Calls on Bush to Apologize during Afghan Inaugural Ceremony
• Iran Wins Big in Iraq's Elections
• Evo Morales Elected Bolivian President in Landslide Victory
• Canadian Natives Are Alarmed by a Shortage of Sons The Aamjiwnaang First Nation now has two girls born for every boy
• If Cambodia Can Learn to Sing Again
• Afghanistan: US Operated Secret 'Dark Prison' in Kabul
• Afghan Man Killed by Taliban for Teaching Girls
• Bolivia: Whoever wins, El Alto will fight
• Bolivia: Does MAS offer more to the people?
• Venezuela: Chavistas win all National Assembly seats
• Marxism and the Venezuelan revolution
• PAKISTAN: LPP organises 5000 strong anti-WTO rally
• WTO: Draft Text Is a Raw Deal, Activist Warns
• Castro's 'Miracle' Cures the Poor of Blindness
• Trade Summit Violence Escalates
• World Trade and Decent Work
• "Catastrophic" Radiation Reported in Chechnya
• In the Footsteps of Che Guevara: Democracy in South America
• WTO Talks Hover on Brink of Breakdown
• EU Disquiet over 'Renditions' Grows
• Europeans Outraged at Schwarzennegger
• Pentagon to Plant News Stories Throughout the World A $300 million Pentagon psychological warfare operation includes plans for placing pro-American messages in foreign media outlets.
• Row over CIA "Torture" Flights Engulfs Blair
• Women's Rights Editor Jailed in Afghanistan Faces Increasing Threats
• Iran's President Dismisses Nazi Holocaust as 'Myth' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Nazi Holocaust a "myth," and said Europe, the US and Canada should use their own land for a Jewish state.
• Africans Forego Basics to Save Children
• Anti-WTO Activists Take the Plunge
• US Paid Millions for Propaganda in Afghanistan Despite Complaints
• To the Left in Bolivia, Too
• Canada Wants to Protect Itself from the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act
• GM to Nearly Triple India Production Just weeks after the company said it would slash 30,000 jobs in the US, General Motors Corp. announced plans to nearly triple the number of cars it produces in India.
• Swiss Government Cites Evidence of Secret CIA Prisons, Transfers
• America's Shame in Montreal: America's Shame in Montreal (The New York Times)
• Farmers Clash with Police at WTO Meeting in Hong Kong
• Climate Campaigners Claim Greatest Ever Success at Montreal
• Sydney Erupts in Second Night of Riots
• Socialist Bachelet Leads in Chile Elections
• Poland to Probe Reports of CIA Prisons
• China Town Sealed after Protesters Slain
• Former CIA Agent to Fight Italian Warrant
• US Delegation Walks Out of Climate Talks
• Bill Clinton Says Bush Is 'Flat Wrong' on Kyoto
• Climate Talks 'Turning Sour,' Warns Beckett
• Chile Election Campaign Ends with First Woman President Likely
• Gesture from Venezuela Heats the Bronx
• Liberia: Tire Giant Firestone Hit with Lawsuit over Slave-Like Conditions
• US Attacked on Its Climate Stance
• How America Plotted to Stop Kyoto Deal
• CANADA: Kyoto - All Talk, No Action
• CUBA: Taking on the CIA
• Venezuela: This is What revolution looks like
• Venezuela: US Fails to Stop Military Deal
• SOUTH AFRICA: High Court Rules in Favour of Same-Sex Marriage
• ZIMBABWE: Police Attack World AIDS Day March
• ZIMBABWE: Four Days Inside Mugabe's Prisons
• PAKISTAN: Protest Against the WTO
• Malaysia: Workers Protest at German Embassy
• NEW ZEALAND: KFC Workers Strike Against Youth Wages
• Afghanistan: Teetering on the Edge of an Apocalypse
• Skepticism Seems to Erode Europeans' Faith in Rice
• China Spill Could Threaten Endangered Tiger
• Women of the Quake Mothers at home, crushed by collapsing walls when disaster struck South Asia seven weeks ago, suffered even more than their menfolk who were out in the open. Julia Stuart tells their stories.
• Afghanistan: 2 US Helicopters Brought Down by Enemy Fire
• CIA Ruse Is Said to Have Damaged Probe in Milan
• UN Expresses Deep Concern over Saddam Trial
• Chavez Lawmakers Claim Victory after Congress Vote
• CIA's Secret Jails Open Up New Transatlantic Rift
• Pakistan: Tribesmen Say Children Were Killed, Not al Qaeda
• CIA Charges Roil EU on Eve of Visit
• Haiti: Seeing the Forest and the Trees Brian Concannon Jr. writes: The interim government of Haiti (IGH) has reset its elections for the fourth time in recent months, showing a disturbing lack of organizational competence on behalf of both the IGH and the Provisional Electoral Commission (CEP), which has the responsibility to run the voting.
• China: Beyond the Harbin Chemical Spill (Joshua Muldavin)
• Venezuela Touts Cheap Fuel to US as Bush Takes Heat
• Climate Change Major Environmental Challenge for Europe
• South Africa: National Survey Finds Young Women Most at Risk of HIV/AIDS
• AIDS Activists, Doctors Sue South Africa's Health Minister
• Australia: AusAid 'blacklists' Timorese NGOs
• Australia: West Timorese denied right to seek asylum
• SOUTH KOREA: APEC 2005 - An ugly feast and a huge protest
• Iran: Iraq war puts off US invasion
• Germany: Venezuela solidarity network formed
• Germany: Protesters delay nuclear waste train
• BRITAIN: Respect pledges solidarity with Venezuela
• Scotland: MP arrested at refugee protest
• Venezuela: Evidence of US involvement in bombing
• Bolivia: Neoliberal era about to end?
• CANADA: Health crisis in Kashechewan
• Canada Urges Wider Global Warming Fight
• EU Threatens Sanctions for States Operating Secret CIA Camps
• How to Tame the Logging Beast
• Indivisible Law
• Muslim Brotherhood on the March to Islamic State
• Afghanistan: US Military Admits It Burned Bodies, Taunted
• US Loses British Backing for UN Tactics
• N. Korea Says CNN Execution Image Fabricated
• Chinese Officials Sought to Hide Toxic Spill
• General Strike Grounds Italy to a Halt
• Kremlin Pushes Measure to Curb Private Groups
• Undermining Haiti (Mark Weisbrot)
• Liberia Elects Africa's First Woman President
• Nestle Forced to Withdraw Baby Milk
• John Pilger on Latin America: 'The rise of Bush's new enemy'
• Venezuela: Union proposes reactivation of 700 closed enterprises
• Venezuela: Cheap heating oil to go to poor US communities
• BRITAIN: 'McLibel' added to dictionary
• Iran: US floats new WMD fabrication
• INDONESIA: 10 million drop below 'poverty line'
• Chinese uranium activist disappeared
• SOUTH AFRICA:'Fucker stole my camera and shot at my mates'
• ZIMBABWE: Army mobilised against demonstrators
• LabourStart TV launched
• Australia's plunder of East Timor's oil and gas
• Australia: Protesters 'greet' US war chief Rumsfeld
• Australia: West Papua poll was sham, says Dutch study
• "Abortion Pill" Controversy Inflames Italy
• EU Wants Clarification on CIA Camps
• Merkel Elected Germany's First Woman Chancellor
• Blair 'Convinced Bush' Not to Launch Strike at al-Jazeera
• Protestors Halt Nuclear Convoy En Route to Germany
• Guatemalan Police Files Chronicle Decades of Human Rights Violations
• Greenland: The Big Thaw
• Che's Second Coming?
• International Labor Rights Group Accuses Bridgestone
• India Awaits Its Second Test on Iran (J. Sri Raman)
• Parliament Backs New EU Law on Toxic Chemicals
• In Pakistan Women Face Violence, Harassment at Camps
• Australian Workers' Message is Loud and Clear
• Brazilian Wetlands Defender Commits Suicide in Environmental Protest
• First Woman Elected President of An African Country
• Woman Editor Wants to Head Afghan Parliament
• Iran's Transsexual Revolution
• Spain Looks into CIA's Handling of Detainees
• Semantic Attacks: The War of Words in France (Françoise Mouly)
• Mexico to Sever Venezuela Diplomatic Ties
• Poland's Challenge to the European Union (Serge Truffaut)
• Profile: Liberia's "Iron Lady"
• Fragile Jordan (Serge Truffaut)
• Pakistanis in US Helping Quake Victims
• The Rise of America's New Enemy (John Pilger)
• UN Blasts Practice of Outsourcing Torture
• British P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act Rejected
• Bombs Rip through Jordanian Capital, At Least 18 Known Dead
• ARGENTINA: 100,000 say FTAA is dead!
• Venezuela: Mission accomplished - illiteracy eradicated
• Workers building a new Venezuela
• Venezuela: Telesur - 24-hour antidote to CNN
• France: Discrimination fuels riots
• Bolivia: Towns strike for road construction
• Bolivia: Morales launches bid for presidency
• NEW ZEALAND: Workers Charter movement supported by Socialist Worker
• SOUTH AFRICA: Mhlengi Khumalo is gone
• BOTSWANA: Bushmen win court victory
• SOUTH KOREA: Government suppresses right to demonstrate
• PAKISTAN: Inadequate Western quake aid leaves millions homeless
• Australia: Boeing workers are not bowing
• Council of Europe to Probe Alleged CIA Jails
• France, US, Contested Models (Sylvie Kauffman)
• Why India-US War Games Cause Wide Concern (J. Sri Raman)
• China to Spend 180 Billion Dollars to Boost Renewable Energy Use
• Shake-Up of the Republic (Serge Truffaut)
• 2005 Arab Attitudes toward US: Good News & Bad News (James Zogby)
• Americas Summit Fails to Bridge Differences on Free Trade
• Nine Nights of Rage
• Vitamin Sherpa Gives Grandmothers the Power to Heal Nepal
• Pakistani Gang-Rape Victim Takes Case to US
• In Paris, Tough Talk Isn't Enough (The New York Times)
• The International Criminal Court Divides the Americas
• EU Looking into Report of Secret CIA Jails in Europe
• Jobs Dominate Talk at Americas Summit
• Migrant Laborers Build Arabian Metropolis
• Liberian Women: Former Fighters Now Training for Peace
• Drought Deepens Poverty, Starving More Africans
• US Denies UN Group Access to Detainees
• Kashmir's Quake Victims Face Hate Campaign, Too (J. Sri Raman)
• Malawi Is Burning, and Deforestation Erodes Economy
• Britain Hosts Energy Summit while Failing to Meet Its Emission Targets
• The Emergence of a "New Globalized Aristocracy" Eric Le Boucher agrees with former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin that a new transnational, privileged, self-perpetuating elite is being created.
• Mexico Ratifies War Crimes Tribunal Treaty
• Ten very surprising things about Iran
• Will India Ride Counter-Proliferation Waves? (J. Sri Raman)
• Devastating Exodus of Doctors from Africa and Caribbean
• Wanted: Polish Workers
• French and American Models of Social Anxiety
• US and Britain seek UN backing for action against Syria
• Dead End Serge Truffaut: Diplomatic arm-wrestling and differing national agendas may prevent the assassins of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri from being brought to justice.
• All Car, No Future It's up to the government to reduce our dependence on the automobile, a wound for our planet, argues the assistant mayor of Paris.
• Venezuela: Significant decrease in poverty
• Venezuela: Expropriations, cooperatives and co-management
• Germany: Pre-existing 'grand coalition' now formalised
• Scotland: Socialists reflect on election results
• France: Workers say 'No' - this time in the streets
• PAKISTAN: Government fails in earthquake response
• Pakistan earthquake appeal
• PHILIPPINES: Working Peoples Summit launches strike campaign
• VIETNAM: An uphill reforestation battle
• NIGERIA: US$12.4 billion to world's richest countries
• MEXICO: Child labourers fight back
• Pakistan Quake Toll Could Double without Swift Help
• See No Evil
• US Widens Campaign on North Korea
• Syria Feels Heat over UN Report
• The Sorrow of Haiti (Stephen Lendman)
• Revealed: The True Devastation of the Rainforest
• France Orders Positive Spin on Colonialism
• Afghans Outraged over Alleged Desecration
• Water Privatization in Latin America
• Stem Cell Scientists Form Consortium
• France and Venezuela Affirm "Common Vision," Deeper Ties
• Spanish Judge Issues Warrant for Three GIs
• China's Economic Growth Signals Environmental Disaster
• Female Firefighters Find They Can Take the Heat in Iran
• Hurricane Wilma, Category 5 Storm
• Pakistan Quake: 500,000 in Danger of Dying from Hypothermia
• Ottawa Threatens to Deprive Americans of Oil "Settle the softwood lumber issue if you want to continue to receive our oil without problem in the future," Ottawa now asserts in substance.
• Darfur: Chaos Grows in Darfur Conflict as Militias Turn on Government
• Pakistan: Relief Officials Say Quake Toll May Hit 100,000
• Columbia: In Bogota, All-Female Team Runs City for Mayor
• Kids Big Part of Pakistan Quake Death Toll
• Kashmir Quake Toll Nears 40,000
• NATO Means Business to Protect Pipelines
• The H5N1 Equation (Le Monde)
• Only Greater Rights for Women Can End Poverty, Warns UN
• Disaster Finds India, Pakistan Divided Still (J. Sri Raman)
• Bloody Street Fighting in Russian City Kills Dozens
• UN Puts Quake Homeless Toll at One Million
• New Zealand anti-union laws: Don't let it happen here!
• VIETNAM: Support Vietnam's Agent Orange International Solidarity Campaign
• Iran: US-EU get UN body to endorse new WMD frame-up
• Venezuela: Land reform battle deepens
• Venezuela: Government moves to increase economic control
• EAST TIMOR: Socialists consolidate base in local elections
• INDONESIA: How the West backed the massacre of a million people
• France: One million workers strike
• Australia: Geelong Trades Hall launches picket-line kits
• Australia: Resistance discusses socialism for the 21st century
• Australia: Building solidarity with the Venezuelan revolution
• Thousands of Quake Survivors Trapped in Himalayan Villages
• Year after Year, Grave after Grave Nicholas D. Kristof writes from what he calls the most wretched country in the world. Niger is dead last of the 177 nations ranked in the latest UN Human Development Report, based on its heartbreaking rates of poverty, illiteracy and mortality.
• US Blocks UN Briefing on Atrocities in Sudan
• Germany: Merkel's Power May Be Trimmed in Deal
• "Stripped... and Sent to Die" in the Sahara
• Hungry Pakistanis Wait for Quake Relief
• Women's Rights Activist among Winners in Afghan Elections
• Progressive or Conservative, Women Influence Islam
• Walls: Ramparts against Reality
• Mayan Towns to Be Declared Mass Graves
• 1,400 Guatemalans Missing as Floods Kill 618
• Asian Quake Death Toll at Least 20,000 A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake centered in the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan sent tremors across South Asia, killing an estimated 20,000 - 30,000 people, including at least 1,600 in remote northern Pakistan, among them hundreds across both sides of disputed Kashmir, and shaking houses and high-rises throughout the region.
• Anthrax and Shoot First: French Report on USA
• Pakistan Must Protect Its Women
• Africa's Migration Problem
• Spain Asserts Right to Try Genocide Crimes Committed Abroad
• Europe and Turkey's Strange Protracted Engagement
• Chavez: Venezuela Moves Reserves to Europe Venezuela has moved its central bank foreign reserves out of US banks, liquidated its investments in US Treasury securities, and placed the funds in Europe.
• Italy Issues 22 Arrest Warrants for CIA Agents
• Turkey: Bad Pretexts Opponents of Turkey's adhesion to the EU invoke Cyprus to cover up their own identity issues.
• EU Opens Historic Talks on Membership for Turkey
• Monitors Find Significant Fraud in Afghan Elections
• Bali Bombings Kill at Least 25 in Tourist Spots
• Kim Jong-Il's Nuclear Games (Jacques Amalric)
• India Fails the Test in IAEA (J. Sri Raman)
• Australia: More 'New Orleans' in store for the poor
• Australia: Look out McDonald's, Pizza Hut, KFC!
• MEXICO: Growing discontent met with state terror
• Venezuela: 'The new Venezuela is a socialist Venezuela'
• Venezuela: Challenges for the workers' movement
• PARAGUAY: US military prepares to 'spread democracy'
• Vietnam's Agent Orange victims call for solidarity
• Iran: US and EU push WMD frame-up
• Germany: Left Party makes big electoral gains
• Scotland: Socialists fight two by-elections
• NEW ZEALAND: Labour likely to head coalition government
• NEW ZEALAND: 'Supersize my pay!'
• Australia: Geelong community turns out for the unions
• Blair Negotiating 40 Billion Pound Arms Deal Tony Blair and John Reid hold talks with Saudi Arabia in pursuit of arms deal worth up to £40bn
• Anti-Bush, and Mincing No Words Venezuela's Hugo Chavez spelled his dislike for the Bush administration and described himself as a revolutionary in his interview with the Newsweek-Washington Post's Lally Weymouth.
• Finance Ministers Warn of Severe Economic Disruption Finance ministers and central bank governors of leading industrial countries warned of economic disruption from high oil prices and vulnerabilities in financial markets.
• The Two-Headed Eagle Germany: The lessons of an election without winners or losers...
• China's Leaders Ban Internet Media Dissent
• Facing Opposition, US and EU Backpedal on Iran Action
• Saudis Warn of Region-Wide Conflict Prince Saud al-Faisal had warned the Bush administration that Iraq was hurtling toward disintegration, which he said could drag the region into war.
• Iraq, Afghan Commitments Fuel US Air Base Construction All in all, the US military has more than $1.2 billion in projects either underway or planned in the Central Command region.
• Schroeder Vows to Stay as Germany Enters Limbo
• Venezuela Offers Low-Cost Gasoline to Tribes (Indian Country Today)
• The Endless Ending of the Taliban in Afghanistan
• Afghan Voters Take Next Step to Democracy
• North Korea Agrees to End Nuclear Programs
• US Withholding UN Funds over Abortion
• Voting May Be Life-and-Death Choice for Afghans
• Chavez at UN: US "Terrorist State" Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez called the United States a "terrorist state" and said the United Nations headquarters should be moved away from New York.
• India, Pakistan Tested as IAEA Meets on Iran (J. Sri Raman)
• Iranian Leader Urges UN, 'Promote Spirituality' President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blasted US unilateralism, militarism, and privilege.
• Afghanistan: Allies Oppose US over NATO Mission
• Ontario Outlaws Religious Arbitration
• US Conclusions on Iran Not 'Supported by the Facts'
• The United States Prefers a Disunited Nations
• US Seen Undercutting Major UN Reforms
• UN Reform, Indispensable and Impossible
• Chavez Extends an Oil-Rich Hand to Neighbors
• US Faces Unprecedented UN Opposition
• Belfast Riots Some of Worst in a Decade
• UN Report: Parts of America Are as Poor as Third World
• Paramilitaries Trade Guns for Politics
• Iran Knocks Europe Out
• Annan Fights to Keep UN Reform Measure Alive
• Bush-Singh Nuclear Deal Creates Fresh Sino-Indian Strains (J. Sri Raman)
• Pakistan and Israel - New Friends?
• Iran's Oil Gambit and Potential Affront to the US
• Authorities in Lebanon Detain 5 in Hariri Slaying
• NEW ZEALAND: Organising the unorganised
• Australian uranium: feedstock for proliferation
• Condoleezza in Adelaide: Environment and War
• Australia's 'generous' tsunami aid questioned
• Venezuela: Chavez calls for global offensive for socialism
• Afghan Elections: Death Threats and Vote Buying
• Venezuela: Call to murder Chavez from US religious leader, so Venezuela May Seek Robertson's Extradition and Chávez May Try to Extradite Robertson (Reuters)
• Australian Group Campaigns to Free Gitmo Prisoner "Free David Hicks"
• Leak Shows Blair Told of Iraq War Terror Link
• Day One in Iran: Culture in Deep Conflict (Sean Penn)
• Scabbing for the Revolution
• A Pivotal Moment for "Axis of Evil"
• Chavez Calls Robertson Threat "Terrorism"
• Ecuador Protesters Are Optimistic over Oil Deal
• Blair Expected to Join Carlyle Group
• No Proof Found of Iran Arms Program
• China, India to Square Off for PetroKazakhstan
• Afghanistan Growing Deadlier for US Troops
• Hagel: "Let's Talk to Iran" Hagel dismissed Bush's talk of a military option against Tehran as an empty and foolish threat.
• Oil War of the Future A war of the future is being waged right now in the sprawling desert region of northeastern Africa known as Sudan.
• Pope Seeks Immunity in Texas Abuse Case
• Powell Aide acknowledges UN WMD speech disgraceful
• Terrorist Threat in Bangladesh Revealed
• Rumsfeld in Peru Warns Chavez
• London Police Stalled Probe Into Shooting
• Switzerland: Fetal Skin Cells Help Heal Burn Wounds in Children
• Two Koreas Come Together Despite US 60,000 South Koreans welcome North Korean delegation in the World Cup Football Stadium to cries of "Korea is one!"
• Russia, China Open First Joint Military Exercises
• 100 Bombs Hit Bangladesh in Coordinated Attack More than 100 bombs exploded across Bangladesh, killing 2 people, wounding at least 125.
• Quiet Bangladesh Woken by Bombs Some 300 small bombs rocked cities in 63 of Bangladesh's 64 districts, killing one person and wounding at least 100.
• Protect Women Candidates in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch Cautions
• Beaten Afghan's Body 'Falling Apart' An Afghan detainee who died in military custody was injured so severely that his leg muscles were split apart.
• US Forces Active in Philippines
• Russia Opposes Use of Force against Iran Russia warned against using force to stop Iran's nuclear program, saying any such action would have grave and unpredictable consequences.
• Venezuela: Socialism does make you feel better!
• Venezuela: US threatens sanctions
• Venezuela: Call for socialism at world youth festival
• SUDAN: Furthering Garang's vision for peace
• SUDAN: The struggle for peace
• NORTHERN IRELAND: Republicanism at a crossroads
• China: Galloping free market an environmental disaster
• China: snapshot of environmental devastation
• PHILIPPINES: Will Arroyo be ousted?
• TONGA: Public servants defy threats, strike continues
• India: Rally against Coca-Cola plant
• SOUTH AFRICA: Miners accept wage offer
• SOUTH AFRICA: Striking municipal workers arrested
• BRITAIN: Ugandan detainees on hunger strike
• TURKEY: Conscientious objector convicted
• Germany: Protesters cut army barracks fence
• PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Power workers threaten strike
• Australia: Hiroshima Day rally: 'What we need is action'
• Australia: Picket forces company to shut the gates
• Australia: 'Anti-terror' laws under the spotlight
• Australia: Boeing workers take their fight to Canberra
• Schroder's Declaration on Iran Chancellor Gerhard Schroder says would refuse to allow German troops in any military campaign against Iran.
• Japanese Isolation (Le Monde)
• Niger: The World Was Deaf
• UN Nuclear Watchdog Rebuts Claims that Iran Is Trying to Make A-Bomb
• US Troops Begin Afghan Offensive
• The Place Where Women Risk Lives to Run for Office
• Bush Suggests Force against Iran, Shroeder Says No President Bush said he could consider using force as a last resort to press Iran to give up its nuclear program. But German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, one of the most prominent European opponents of the US-led war on Iraq, told an election rally on Saturday the threat of force was not acceptable.
• US Warns: Will Refer Iran to UN Security Council The US government said it will refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council unless it halts its uranium processing program.
• Alleged al-Qaida Spiritual Leader Detained
• Canadian Sent to Syria Sues US over Rendition Policy 2002, US officials nabbed Canadian in Brooklyn as a alleged Al Qaeda terrorist, sent him to Syria to be tortured for 10 months. Arar was never charged with a crime and charges the US government violated the Torture Victim Protection Act and his Fifth Amendment right to due process.
• China, the Yuan and Us Nicolas Barre on the floating Yuan
• Bolivia: Left prepares for elections
• Niger President Denies Famine
• Venezuela Warns Against US Invasion
• Venezuela: Brigadistas witness workers' control
• Venezuela: Bringing health care to the poor
• Venezuela: Indigenous exchange proposed
• SOUTH AFRICA: Municipal workers launch indefinite strike
• ARGENTINA: Railroad workers join strike
• TONGA: Strikers reject new offer
• Iran: Textile workers' protest attacked
• FIJI: 90% of nurses strike
• How orporate Australia plunders Iraq "What floor are you going to?", a woman asks as a group of 20 activists cram their way into the lift. "Seventeen." "Oh, no you're not!", she shouts and attempts to block the buttons.
• World's deadliest gun: Australian storm of metal terror
• Australia: US peace activist: Bush faces 'deficits' in Iraq
• Australia: Hiroshima never again
• Australia: Public sector workers march
• Australia: Civil rights protesters question Ruddock
• Nagasaki Marks Anniversary of A-Bombing The second and last city ever attacked by an atomic bomb marked the 60th anniversary with a Catholic Mass, a moment of silence, and an plea for a global ban on nuclear arms.
• Annan Rescinds Immunity, Ex-UN Aide Admits Bribes
• UN Boosts Medical Response to Niger Hunger
• Knee Strikes Taught at Bagram to Gain Prisoner Compliance
• Iran Resumes Nuclear Work, a Step That May Lead to Sanctions
• Failure of Nuclear Discussions with North Korea
• Iran: Revolution, Unrealistic
• Sudan Prepares Icon's Farewell Nile River city prepares for the funeral of John Garang, a rebel icon turned peacemaker and statesman.
• Afghanistan's Forgotten War (New York Times)
• Chevron Paid Agents Who Destroyed Villages The bodies of the dead Nigerian villagers had not yet grown cold when the Nigerian navy captain presented Chevron with a bill: 15,000 naira, or $165 for responding to "attacks from Opia village against security agents."
• Never Again? How the War in Iraq Spurred a New Nuclear Arms Race
• The Myths of Hiroshima
• Hiroshima Remembers Those Killed 60 Years Ago Hiroshima marks the 60th anniversary of the world's first atomic attack.
• Al Qaeda to West: It's about Policies
• Offer by Europe Would Give Iran Nuclear Future
• Malnutrition Is Ravaging Niger's Children
• Hunger Is Spreading in Africa
• Bangladesh: Disease Traced to Extreme Weather
• Beirut: Growing Grassroots
• Rare View of CIA Secret Detentions
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Worst Terror Attacks in History
• Mauritania's US-Supported Government Overthrown
• BRAZIL: Corruption and political crisis
• BRITAIN: 'Shoot-to-kill' policy claims innocent life
• BRITAIN: Marx voted greatest ever philosopher
• BRITAIN: Attacks on Muslims skyrocket
• CANADA: Socialist academics analyse environmental crisis
• EAST TIMOR: More electoral gains for socialists
• KYRGYZSTAN: US base gets reprieve
• AFGHANISTAN: Protest at US military base
• PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Students assaulted by police
• TONGA: Public servants demand pay rises
• GUATEMALA: Protests against CAFTA
• Australia: Science minister fails the NT nuclear dump test
• Australia: US activist: Bush's 'deficits' in Iraq
• Afghan Women Running for Office Face Obstacles
• Jihad: Who's Joining, and Why?
• Europe Threatens to Punish Iran if Nuclear Work Restarts
• Iran Is Judged 10 Years from Nuclear Bomb A US intelligence review projects that Iran is about a decade away from the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon.
• A Non-Debate over India-US Nuclear Deal (J. Sri Raman)
• Suspect's Tale of Travel and Torture
• How Radical Islamists See the World
• Drought to Leave Mark on Global Grain Flows
• Iran Will Reopen Nuclear Facility Iran is to resume the processing of uranium at a nuclear plant, breaking seals placed on the facility by the UN nuclear watchdog in late 2004.
• Questions Linger as Bush Pushes India Nuclear Deal
• Uzbekistan Kicks US out of Military Base
• John Garang's Death Sparks Riots in Khartoum
• Saudi King Fahd Dies, Abdullah Replaces Him
• Little Land on Earth Is Still Untouched
• London Bomber Cites Iraq as Cause
• Peacekeepers Accused after Killings in Haiti Evidence is mounting that United Nations peacekeepers shot and killed unarmed civilians, including children, during a recent raid in Haiti.
• Europe on an Energy Diet
• Pakistani Women Defy Election Ban
• EU Pushes Binding Climate Deal
• IRA Orders End to Armed Campaign
• Afghan Protesters Take Aim at US Base More than 1,000 stone-throwing Afghans tried to break down an outer gate at the main US base,e demanding the release of eight detained villagers; Afghan troops fired warning shots and used clubs to beat the mob back. US troops also fired into the air.
• KYRGYZSTAN: 'Tulip Revolution' turns against US
• PHILIPPINES: Left organising to oust Arroyo
• Germany: Left Party Momentum Continues
• SOUTH AFRICA: Water, a right, not a commodity
• Australia: US Navy claims Hicks and Habib not abused
• In Search of a New Energy Source, China Rides the Wind
• Melting Greenland Glacier May Hasten Rise in Sea Level
• ZIMBABWE: Police kick out homeless from churches
• ZAMBIA: Miners Revolt
• TONGA: Public servants strike
• Iran: 600 Textile Workers March on Tehran
• PORTUGAL: 500,000 workers strike
• WESTERN SAHARA: Human rights activists arrested
• Italy Seeks Arrest of 19 CIA Agents
• UK: Britain's Top Cop Defends Shoot-to-Kill
• UK: Muslim Leaders Urge Women to Take Off Veil
• Peasants Pay with Blood to Save Mexico Forest
• Kenya: Clinton Launches HIV/AIDS Initiative
• North Korea Nuclear Goals: Case of Mixed Signals
• India-US Partnership Spells a Setback for South Asia (J. Sri Raman)
• China Floats, America Sinks (Greg Palast)
• The Spies Who Came In from the Hot Tub (Tom Engelhardt)
• Afghanistan: Women Election Educators at Work in the Provinces
• China Ends Yuan Dollar Peg and China Unpegs Itself (Paul Krugman)
• Up to 150,000 Face Starvation in Niger
• Global: World Faces Massive Increase in CO2 Emissions (Jon Walter)
• Global: Ringing the Alarm for Earth
• ARGENTINA: Is there a way out of crisis?
• Venezuela: 'We are on the way towards socialism'
• Venezuela: Opposition leaders to face trial
• Separate and not Equal: A Police Station of Their Own
• Socialists make gains in Timor elections
• PHILIPPINES: Street protests intensify against president
• Unocal Accepts Chevron Bid, Rejecting Larger Chinese Bid
• BOSNIA: Srebrenica still waiting for justice
• BRITAIN: 4000 attend Marxism conference
• SOUTH AFRICA: Police attack AIDS campaigners
• GUAM: Chamorros Resist Military Presence
• North Korea's One Ton A-Bomb?
• WESTERN SAHARA: Yara ceases phosphate trade
• Oil Manoeuvres by China, India, Challenge US
• India: Campaign against Coca-Cola
• Malaysia: Retrenched plantation workers demand benefits
• Australia: Greens, socialists oppose new troop deployment
• Pakistan Militants Linked to London Attacks
• US to Aid India on Nuclear Power
• Anger in China Rises over Threat to Environment Riots in Xinchang
• A 21st Century Powerhouse: China Rising China has become the world's third-largest trader, one of its fastest-growing economies, a rising military power in Northeast Asia.
• Riding Pillion for Attacking Terrorism Is a High-Risk Policy
• Singing "Guantanamera" Chavez Nurtures the Revolution
• Chinese General Threatens Nuclear Retaliation if US Helps Taiwan
• Gene 'Maps' Show Way to Beat Killer Diseases
• Pakistan Remains a Haven for Radical Islamists
• Venezuela: Feeding the needy
• Venezuela: Chavez targets police corruption
• Venezuela: Caribbean oil alliance formed
• Cuba strengthens socialist economy
• INDONESIA: Hundreds rally in Jakarta for Aceh peace
• Scotland: G8 protesters defy intimidation, fight for justice
• Scotland: Socialists expelled from parliament for G8 protest
• ITALY: Police expose CIA kidnapping/torture operation
• BRITAIN: Baghdad comes to London
• BRITAIN: Anti-war and Muslim groups condemn bombings
• MEXICO: Zapatistas announce new plans
• HOLLAND: Greenpeace declared terrorist
• PARAGUAY: Parliament rejects privatisation
• WESTERN SAHARA: Norwegian delegation deported
• VIETNAM: Health insurance to cover all workers
• KENYA: Ogiek appeal for help
• KAZAKHSTAN: Central Asia alliance calls for US withdrawal
• Australian Arabic Council: 'War on terror' is being lost
• Australia: 'Bad laws are meant to be broken'
• Australia: Lebanese communists commemorate leader
• Australia: 'Always was, always will be Aboriginal land'
• Australia: USS Kitty Hawk targeted
• The Resurgence of the Taliban
• South Korea Offers North Energy-for-Nuclear Deal
• Muslims Pray for London Bombing Victims
• As Europe Braces, Fears of an Attack Grip Italians
• UK Officials Expected Attack but Lowered Threat Level
• Europe Chooses a Slow Food Culture
• US Medical Team Attacked by Afghan Insurgents
• London Rocked by Multiple Blasts
• G8 will not ease Third World poverty
• G8: How the rich world short-changes Africa
• 200,000 protest in Edinburgh
• Venezuela: The fight against poverty
• Zimbabwe: Mugabe's 'tsunami'
• Zimbabwe: Homeless and Hopeless
• Iran: A vote against neoliberalism
• SOUTH AFRICA: General strike against job losses
• INDONESIA: Suharto-era spy network revived
• Vietnam and the world market
• ECUADOR: Anti-dam activist killed
• Germany: Left Party polls higher than Greens
• LEBANON: Left leader assassinated
• TURKEY: Conscientious objector re-arrested
• Protests planned for Forbes conference
• Australia: Geelong fights back
• Australia: 300,000 Join Union Protests!
• Australia: Indigenous prisoners broadcast
• News Clampdown on Afghan Front
• Afghans Condemn US Airstrike Deaths
• Central Asian States Ask When US Troops Will Leave
• "Star Wars" Premiers in India! (J. Sri Raman)
• War of Words between US and China over Unocal
• More Protests ahead of G8 Meeting
• US "Team" Missing in Afghanistan
• Russia and China: "End World Domination"
• Mood of Anxiety Engulfs Afghans as Violence Rises
• Unocal Bid Shows China Needs Oil For Growth
• UZBEKISTAN: Papering over a massacre?
• Venezuela: Workers taking back control - see also Venezuela Solidarity Network
• BRAZIL: Corruption scandal threatens Lula
• CHILE: Gold mine protested
• Venezuela: Plot to kill Chavez discovered
• AFGHANISTAN: More troops to help US control
• China Economy Rising at Pace to Rival US
• Will Iran Change Put Out India-Pak 'Peace Pipe?' (J. Sri Raman)
• PHILIPPINES: Call made for provisional revolutionary government
• HONG KONG: Sham election of new chief executive
• Germany: Left unites to challenge old parties
• Scotland: SSP fights for school meals
• Canada: A crisis rooted in Quebec
• Canada: Gay Marriage Extended Nationwide
• MEXICO: Zapatistas discuss change of direction
• BOTSWANA: Bushmen are real diamonds
• Malaysia: Protesters oppose water privatisation
• NIGERIA: Communities sue oil firms
• ENGLAND: 97 Zimbabweans on hunger strike
• Africa Needs Justice
• G8 Gets Ultimatum on Climate Change
• UN report: East Timor trials a sham
• ECUADOR: Palacio attacks U.S., supports Bolivar
• WESTERN SAHARA: New uprising faces repression
• Austraia: Save East Gippsland's old-growth forests!
• Iran's President-Elect Calls for Moderation
• China's Costly Quest for Energy Control
• Zimbabwe's Secret Famine
• How 'Britain's Deep Throat' Leaked the Memos
• Unocal Bid Pours Oil on China-US Political Fire
• Italy: Anger at US Tactics Colors Spy Case
• Iran: Hardline Mayor Wins Election in Landslide
• Italy: Judge Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Officers
• China's Image Better Than US (Editor's Note: Except ion Tibet...)
• Chinese Unocal Deal: More Than Money at Issue
• US Stonewalls UN on Gitmo Torture
• Peasant Revolts Defy Chinese Authorities
• Unocal, Maytag, IBM in China's Crosshairs
• US Spy Plane Pilot Dies in Asia Crash
• Bolivia: The Second Gas War
• COLOMBIA: Washington's other oil war
• LATIN AMERICA: Washington loses - again
• Scotland: Democracy for sale, as G8 protests loom
• NETHERLANDS: Left win, as the Dutch vote 'no'
• POLAND: Queer movement claims victory
• GHANA: Dumping of chickens undermines farmers
• BRITAIN: War payments denied because of race
• GUAM: Protest held against water privatisation
• Afghan War Widening
• PAKISTAN: Army smashes anti-privatisation strike
• ILO rejects Venezuela complaint
• Scotland: Rosie Kane reports from Havana
• PNG: Bougainville government sworn in
• Australian Union Leaders: `Defy Howard's Laws!'
• Australia: Anti-war Protesters Picket ANZ
• US Impatient with Pakistan's Cooperation in Hunt for Bin Laden
• Iran's Election Results in Dispute
• Priest Who Crucified Nun Unrepentant
• US Trained and Aided Uzbek Forces
• Audio of Iraqi Labor Solidarity Tour: IFTU Delegates Abed Sekhi and Adnan A. Rashed Speak in Baltimore
• US Pressure Weakens G-8 Climate Plan
• Election Day in Iran - A Republic at the Crossroads
• North Korean Leader Signals Willingness to Resume Talks
• Kashmiri Mission Proves Counterproductive (J. Sri Raman)
• How Haiti's Future May Depend on a Starving Prisoner
• Saudis Reject Nuclear Inspections
• US Suspects 'Face Torture Overseas'
• US Blocks Probe of Uzbekistan Slaughter
• America's "Free Market" Destabilized Bolivia, Says Chavez
• Saving South Asia's Peace - And the Snow Leopard (J. Sri Raman)
• Forgotten US Allies Emerge From Jungles of Laos
• Warning of Civil War as Bolivia Picks President
• Bolivia Military Warns of Violence as Lawmakers Name New President
• Sunnis Balk as Kurd and Shia Leaders Back Militias
• UN Wins One over US
• Democrats Offer Alternate UN Reform Bill
• Place for Kashmiris in the "Peace Process?" (J. Sri Raman)
• Bolivia: On the Brink
• AUSTRALIA: Kill the bill! 72% oppose anti-union laws
• ZIMBABWE: Mugabe's terror campaign
• Venezuela: Mass mobilisation defends oil industry
• Venezuela: Collaboration deepens with Cuba
• France: Blow dealt to capitalists' EU project
• BURMA: Victory for human rights
• Scotland: SSP's Rosie Kane to visit Cuba
• Tonga: Largest protests in history reject King
• MAURITIUS: Lalit nominates election candidates
• BOTSWANA: Government critic to be deported
• Australia: ACT moves to recognise same-sex unions
• Australia: Maori Party leaders meet Murri community
• Australia: Venezuela "a model for the world"
• The French "No" Consoles Those Burnt by NAFTA
• Four Years Later, the Taliban Fight On
• Syria's Troops Have Gone. So Who Killed Samir? (Robert Fisk)
• A Prodigal Returns to Pakistan (J. Sri Raman)
• European Leaders May Scrap Constitution
• Latin America Leaders Balk at US Plan Targeting Chavez
• 'No' Votes in Europe Reflect Anger at National Leaders
• Opposition to US Makes Chavez a Hero to Many
• Deadly Suicide Bomber Strikes Afghanistan
• 2nd Darfur Aid Worker Detained in Sudan for Reporting Rapes
• French "Non" Brings Europe to a Crossroads
• Venezuela Protests US Harbor for Posada Carriles
• Lebanese Seek to Map a Future Mired in Past
• Protesters Beaten as Egypt Votes on Electoral Reform (Robert Fisk)
• Bolivians Fight to Nationalize Oil and Gas
• Day After Nuclear Deal, Iran is Cleared to Start WTO Process
• Whaling Politics: Japan Lobbies to Ease Ban
• Afghanistan: Violence Surges
• New Uprising in Bolivia
• Toe Tags Offer Clues to Uzbeks' Uprising
• UZBEKISTAN: Protesters massacred by US ally
• SOUTH AFRICA: Clashes at union protest
• BRITAIN: Soldier's father polls 10% against Blair
• Australia: Afghan asylum seekers to be deported
• Australia: Rail issue a hit at Newcastle May Day
• Australia: ANZ Picketed
• India : A Year after the Fascist Rout (J. Sri Raman)
• Swedish Probe Finds CIA Renditions Illegal
• Report Uncovers Savage Killing of Afghan Inmates
• Koreans Report Major Stem Cell Breakthrough
• Report: Muslim World Largely Anti-American
• Uzbek Government Troops Reclaim Eastern Town
• Uzbek Rebel Wants Islamic Government
• British MP Delivers Blistering War Critique
• Amazon Tribe Faces Annihilation in Brazil
• The Children of El Salvador's Rape
• Uzbekistan: Death Toll Soars
• North Korea Reports a Key Nuclear Move
• North Korea Reports a Key Nuclear Move
• North Korea Reports a Key Nuclear Move
• Hundreds Killed in Uzbek Uprising
• Anti-American Protests Spread through Islamic World
• Uzbekistan: US-Backed Dictator Clamps Down on Protests
• Chavez Builds Non-US Alternative TV for Latin America
• Anti-US Protests Rage from Afghanistan to Pakistan
• China: Bush Belligerence Caused North Korea Crisis
• European Officials Warn Iran, Tehran May Back Down
• North Korea Reports a Key Nuclear Move
• Nuclear Fundamentalism and Iran
• SUDAN: US Rolls Out Red Carpet for Darfur's Executioner
• CUBA: 1 Million Attend May Day
• BRAZIL: Thousands of Peasants Protest Against Lula
• China: Beijing Rolls Back Anti-Japan Protests
• Egyptian Pluralism is a Sham
• BRAZIL: Lula rejects US 'aid' for AIDS
• Venezuela: Significant Increase in Chavez's Popularity
• Australia: ANZ Targeted for War Profiteering
• Colombia: The American Military's Little Traffickings
• 'Fortress America' Deterring Billions in Tourism
• North Korea May Have Up to Six Nukes
• US Troops Accused of Arming Colombian Death Squads
• Anti-War Maverick Wins Labour Stronghold
• Damaged by Iraq, Blair Squeaks By
• Iran Accuses US of Denying It Peaceful Nuclear Power
• Tony Blair Can't Win (Greg Palast)
• His Star Rising, Mexican Populist Faces New Tests
• Cache Explodes in Afghanistan, Killing 34
• Germany: "Get US Nukes off Our Soil"
• 1 Million March for Revolution in Venezuela
• VIETNAM: 30 years after victory: Towards capitalism or socialism?
• Venezuela: Chavez Ends US Military Exchange Program
• Venezuela: Occupied Factory Nationalised
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Up in Arms over CAFTA
• CUBA: Minimum Wage Doubles
• UNHRC Rejects Guantanamo Investigation
• BELGIUM: US Embassy Billed for War Injury
• Timor Sea Oil - A Question of Sovereignty
• ANZAC Day (among other things) Celebrates Australian Invasion of Turkey
• WWI and Australia
• Australia: Teachers Gain Wage Increase
• Australia: New Uranium Mine Opposed
• Iran Takes Aggressive Stance, Undeterred by Bush Bluster
• Rice's Attacks on Chavez Backfire
• N. Korea Fires Missile Into Sea of Japan
• Lubicon Nation: No Lifeblood for Oil
• Sudan Becomes US Ally in "War on Terror"
• N. Korea Nuclear Capability "Troubling Beyond Words"
• Blair's Dark Day as Iraq Row Erupts
• Mexico's Lopez Obrador Wins Round One
• Chernobyl Threatens to Blow Again
• Spain Stands Up to Pope on Gays
• Fox Moves to End Mexican Crisis
• ECUADOR: People Drive Out President
• Putin's Ambiguities
• Latin America in Revolt: Continent Defies the USA
• Australia: Howard a "War Criminal"
• Australia: Abortion: "As early as possible, as late as necessary"
• Deciphering the Code of US Lies About Chavez
• I Wanna Go To Venezuela
• Fidel Castro Slams US Government for Terrorist Links
• A Branch of al-Qaeda Tried in Madrid
• Vital Nuclear Parts Bound for Libya Missing
• Spain: Gay Marriage Will Soon Be Authorized
• India, China Bid to Reshape World Order
• A New Eldorado or Nightmare for South African Mercenaries
• In Tsunami Area, Relief Is Very Slow in Coming
• UN Warns of Chaotic Upheavals in Arab World
• US-EU Conflict over China Arms
• Afghanistan: "One Huge US Jail"
• Wolfowitz Confirmed as World Bank President
• UN Votes to Send Any Sudan War Crime Suspects to World Court
• US Fuels Indo-Pakistani Arms Race despite Nuke Fears
• Canada Denies Refugee Status to US Soldier
• New EU Momentum on China Arms Sales
• Battle for Canada's Underground Resources
• Asia-Pacific International Solidarity Conference
• US Suspends Military Aid to Nicaragua
• Pakistani's Black Market May Offer Secrets to Build Nuclear Weapons
• Angry E.U. Calls Wolfowitz to Brussels over World Bank
• World Bank Workers Reject Wolfowitz
• Pentagon Hawk Wolfowitz to Run World Bank
• UN May Condemn U.S. for Human Rights Abuses
• Vietnam Fury with Agent Orange Case
• Iran and Russia Sign Nuclear Fuel Deal
• Vietnam Looks to Win Agent Orange Law Suit
• Canadian PM to Shoot Down Missile Plan
• Three Little Words Matter to North Korea
• U.N.: Afghanistan Becoming Chaotic Terror Haven
• Socialists Win Landslide in Portugal
• Russia and Chine Announce Strategic Partnership
• Deaths "Will Reach 250,000" as Rebel Areas Reveal Losses
• Tsunami Death Toll Rises Above 225,000