He must stick to his strengths, avoid polarization, and deliver a real agenda for a second term. Too bad so few will tune in By Richard S. Dunham Business Week Updated: 8:00 p.m. ET Aug. 30, 2004 The Presidential nominating… Continue Reading
Bayano Valy MAPUTO, Aug 31 (IPS) – When her husband died two months ago, Albertina Come did not only lose him. She also lost their house and belongings acquired through hard work over ten years of marriage. Come’s husband is… Continue Reading
Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Aug 27 (IPS) – As the United Nations continues to face a shortage of well-equipped, professionally trained soldiers for its growing peacekeeping operations overseas, a proposal to hire private security forces to rectify the shortfall has… Continue Reading
By: Eduardo Galeano – Página 12 Strange dictator this Hugo Chávez. Masochistic and suicidal: he created a Constitution that permits the people to throw him out, and he risked this occurring in a recall referendum. This referendum that took place… Continue Reading
By: Jonah Gindin  Venezuelanalysis.com With Chávez’ barely contested victory in the long awaited referendum on his mandate as Venezuelan President, there has been a manifest change in the attitude of the mainstream media towards Venezuela’s BolÃvarian revolution. Venezuela’s left… Continue Reading
Peyman Pejman BAGHDAD, Aug 26 (IPS) – As almost six million Iraqi children prepare to start their second year at school away from the shadow of Saddam Hussein’s regime, officials see major challenges ahead. At this time last year Iraq… Continue Reading
By JUAN FORERO CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug.- When President Hugo Chávez was ousted in a coup two years ago, the Bush administration celebrated, calling the ouster his own doing. The rest of Latin America was left fuming by the overthrow and… Continue Reading
Stefania Bianchi BRUSSELS, Aug 25 (IPS) – Immigration policy threatens to divide EU member states as the new European Commission looks for a common stand. Control of European Union (EU) borders will fall to commissioner for justice and home affairs… Continue Reading
Diana Mendoza MANILA, Aug 25 (IPS) – Testing the limits of press freedom is a perilous venture in the Philippines. Good journalists in the country run the risk of either being maimed for life or killed for reporting without fear… Continue Reading
ANALYSIS By Dan Balz and Jim VandeHei The Washington Post Updated: 1:00 a.m. ET Aug. 25, 2004 The controversy over John F. Kerry’s service in Vietnam and his days as an antiwar protester entered its third week yesterday with both… Continue Reading
The threat of an Al Qaeda attack there is real—and growing WEB EXCLUSIVE By Christopher Dickey Paris Bureau Chief, Middle East Regional Editor Newsweek Updated: 3:47 p.m. ET Aug. 20, 2004 Aug. 20 – Who’d have thought laid-back Italy would… Continue Reading
Stefania Bianchi BRUSSELS, Aug 24 (IPS) – The European Union is beginning to take action over the human rights crisis in Darfur ahead of the Aug. 29 United Nations deadline to the Sudanese government. Adviser to EU foreign policy chief… Continue Reading
Public letter from the Latin American Communication Networks in support of the CRIS campaign A different communication is posible The communication organizations of Latin America that promote communication rights, assembled in the city of Quito for the Social Forum of… Continue Reading
Katherine Stapp NEW YORK, Aug 23 (IPS) – Secret detention centres in Iraq and Afghanistan must be included in U.S. military monitoring of prisoner mistreatment, according to an article in the ‘Lancet’ medical journal that details collusion between medical staff… Continue Reading
Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Aug 20 (IPS) – South-east Asia’s march to create a regional free trade area by 2018 is causing heartburn among public health experts, given that this push to end trade tariff barriers could open the doors for… Continue Reading
ACLU warns of surveillance-industrial complex By Bob Sullivan Technology correspondent MSNBC Updated: 10:22 a.m. ET Aug. 20, 2004 In May 2002, the Professional Association of Diving Instructors voluntarily provided the FBI with a disk containing the names, addresses and other… Continue Reading
MSNBC News Services Updated: 12:37 p.m. ET Aug. 19, 2004 WASHINGTON – A new U.S. Army report clears top U.S. military brass in Iraq of abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison but implicates 20 or more intelligence troops in… Continue Reading
Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (IPS) – A newly released survey projects massive population growth in the developing world over the next 45 years, due to its disproportionately young populace and higher birth rates. While there has been a decline… Continue Reading
By Alejandro Kirk CARACAS. Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has never claimed to be anything but the result of 40 years of massive weakening of the democratic system established in 1958 by popular revolt, led by two political parties which allowed… Continue Reading
Moyiga Nduru JOHANNESBURG, Aug 18 (IPS) – “If only I can stop sewing for a month, my cough will come down…I spend the money from my sewing for buying food and making sandwiches for my grandchildren to take to school,”… Continue Reading
