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RIGHTS: Companies Sweeten Profits on Child Labour in Sugar Fields
Coca-Cola and other companies must do more to ensure that the sugar they buy from El Salvador is not provided by the thousands of children working illegally in the country's sugar cane fields, says a report released Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).POLITICS-U.S.: Reagan’s Policies Set the Stage for Bush’s Excesses
As Ronald Reagan's body lies in state beneath the Capitol Rotunda in advance of the first U.S. state funeral in 31 years on Friday, Washington is seeing an intensification of the affection and praise for the 40th U.S. president that have swept over the national media since his death last weekend.POLITICS: Weak States Are ‘Sleeping Giants’ for U.S. Security
Almost three years after the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the United States is still falling short in its ability to deal with weak, failing or failed states, which increasingly threaten U.S. national security, says a major report released here Tuesday by a bipartisan commission.RIGHTS: Failed Promises Imperil Afghanistan Polls, Groups Tell G8
National elections in Afghanistan planned for September will be increasingly in doubt unless western nations commit more troops to the war-weary country, international human rights groups told leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations, gathering this week on Sea Island in the state of Georgia.RIGHTS-U.S.: New Evidence Prison Torture Was Approved at Top Levels
A classified Pentagon report, providing a series of legal arguments apparently intended to justify abuses and torture against detainees, appears to undermine public assurances by senior U.S. officials, including President George W. Bush, that the military would never resort to such practices in the ''war on terrorism''.POLITICS: Global Poll Finds Pessimism, Linked to U.S. Power
With the notable exceptions of China and India, a majority of people in 19 key countries are pessimistic about the world's current direction, says a just-released survey, which found a high correlation between that feeling and the belief that U.S. influence is increasingly negative, particularly as compared to Europe.POLITICS-U.S.: More Imperial Intrigue as CIA Director Resigns
The abrupt resignation of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet adds new grist to Washington's rumour mills, already churning at warp speed due to the ongoing prisoner-abuse scandal in Iraq and reports that the Bush administration's favourite in Baghdad turned over critical information to Iran.POLITICS: Groups Sue Pentagon for Info on Iraq Abuses
A coalition of civil-rights and veterans groups charged in a New York court Wednesday that the U.S. Defence Department is withholding records about the abuse of detainees in military custody as part of the Bush administration's "war against terrorism."POLITICS-U.S.: Right-Wing Republicans Sinking Law of the Sea, Again
Despite overwhelming support for it in the U.S. Senate, ratification of the 1982 Law of the Sea Treaty (LOS) is being held up by half a dozen right-wing Republican senators backed by a coalition of national groups who see the agreement as another step toward global government.POLITICS-U.S.: Right-wing Republicans Sinking Law of the Sea, Again
Despite overwhelming support for it in the U.S. Senate, ratification of the 1982 Law of the Sea Treaty (LOS) is being held up by half a dozen right-wing Republican senators backed by a coalition of national groups who see the agreement as another step toward global government.U.S.-IRAQ: Neo-Con Collapse in Washington and Baghdad
Fourteen months after reaching the zenith of their influence on U.S. foreign policy with the invasion of Iraq, neo-conservatives appear to have fallen entirely out of favour, both within the administration of President George W Bush and in Baghdad itself.POLITICS-U.S.: Neo-Con Collapse in Washington and Baghdad
Fourteen months after reaching the zenith of their influence on U.S. foreign policy with the invasion of Iraq, neo-conservatives appear to have fallen entirely out of favour, both within the administration of President George W Bush and in Baghdad itself.POLITICS-U.S./IRAQ: Bush Offers Nothing New Except Prison
Launching a new effort to stem the plummeting loss in public confidence in his Iraq policy, U.S. President George W Bush reiterated his commitment to bringing ''freedom'' and self-government to Baghdad and warned that U.S. failure will ''only mark the beginning of peril and violence''.IRAQ-U.S.: Neo-Cons Call for Military Solution
Despite a tidal wave of bad news from the Iraq occupation they did so much to promote, neo-conservatives are calling for U.S. President George W. Bush to pursue a military solution against resistance fighters there.IRAQ-U.S.: Neo-Cons Call For Military Solution
Despite a tidal wave of bad news from the Iraq occupation they did so much to promote, neo-conservatives are calling for U.S. President George W Bush to pursue a military solution against resistance fighters there.REFUGEES: Millions ‘Warehoused’ Without Rights for 10 Years or More
More than seven million of the world's nearly 12 million refugees have been "warehoused" in dangerous border areas or urban slums without regard to their basic human rights for 10 or more years, according to the 2004 'World Refugee Survey' released Monday by the U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR).IRAQ: Chalabi – From White House to Dog House in Just Five Months
It was just last January that Ahmed Chalabi occupied the coveted balcony seat next to First Lady Laura Bush and gazed out at Washington's glittering elite who had gathered to hear President George W Bush deliver his State of the Union Address from the Capitol's imposing rostrum.POLITICS-U.S.: Greenpeace Beats Controversial Prosecution
In a rebuke to the U.S. Justice Department, a federal judge in Miami has thrown out a criminal case against environmental group Greenpeace, a prosecution that was watched closely by other progressive organisations that say they are under threat from the Bush administration..POLITICS-U.S.: Pentagon’s Feith Again at Centre of Disaster
Although it will take weeks, if not months, to sort out precisely who was responsible for what increasingly appears to have been the systemic abuse by U.S. soldiers of Iraqi detainees, it should be no surprise if Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith is found to have played an important role.POLITICS-U.S.: Imperial Dreams Sink in Iraqi Quagmire
The coalition of Bush administration hawks that was empowered by the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon agreed on three main strategic objectives.HEALTH: AIDS, Africa Groups Suspicious of Latest Bush Move
Africa and AIDS activists say they are wary of the Bush administration's pledge to expedite its approval process for low-cost, generic anti-retroviral drugs by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their use in Bush's 15 billion-dollar anti-AIDS initiative for Africa and the Caribbean.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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