World Notes: Food aid, Iraqi health care, Agent Orange...
World Food Program Director Josette Sheeran told the BBC last week that without increased monetary support, her agency will soon be rationing food aid.
Fernando Lugo, populist, favored in Paraguay elections
Opinion surveys suggest former Bishop Fernando Lugo will win Paraguay’s presidential elections set for April 20. One poll estimates a 40 percent total for Lugo, 26.6 percent for Colorado Party candidate Blanca Ovelar, and 22.4 percent for General Lino Oviedo, representing his own National Union of Ethical Citizens Party.
Orgy at the Hardrock Cafe
In 'Roughing it' Mark Twain depicts the methods used in his era to mine such 'hardrock' minerals as gold, silver and copper: 'Imagine a stranger staking out a mining claim among the costly shrubbery in your front yard and calmly proceeding to lay waste the ground with pick and shovel and blasting powder.'
A look behind Kenya's power-sharing agreement
Facing the prospect of a new round of mass protests, the Kenyan regime headed by Mwai Kibaki agreed to a power-sharing arrangement negotiated by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Books to Help You Understand and Change the World!
Extensive books by Marx and Engels, and selected books by Lenin and other Marxist scholars and activists.
Economy continues to grind to a halt
The government, in a transparent attempt to “spin” bad economic news, said Feb. 29 that consumer spending posted a 0.4 percent rise in January and that this was better than economists had been expecting.
Journalist union denounces terrorist attack targeting prominent figure
The head of Iraqi Journalists' Union, Shihab al-Timimi, died on Wednesday 27th February 2008 in hospital in Baghdad where he was receiving treatment after being shot and seriously wounded by gunmen four days earlier.
9/11 rescue workers demand justice
Money isn’t everything for Scott Aline, a member of Operating Engineers Local 138 in New York, who spent months cleaning up the toxic remains of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
It can happen here, union leader warns
WASHINGTON (PAI) – Continuing his crusade against repressive immigration enforcement raids on workers, United Food and Commercial Workers President Joe Hansen declared, “workers cannot sit back anymore and say ‘it cannot happen here’ because it has.”
Needed: a red-green alliance
A few days after the 9/11 tragedies, the mayor of my town, Naugatuck, Conn., called a gathering on the town green. We were told to bring candles. We went there expecting a solemn event.
