President Hugo Chavez says that Washington does not dare to list Venezuela as one of the countries allegedly supporting terrorism.
Republican lawmakers including Reps. Connie Mack and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen have urged the State Department to add Venezuela to the list of terror sponsors.
In a Friday televised speech, Chavez said the threat to label Venezuela as [¡¦]
ONE THING IS CLEAR about the so-called DC Madam - aka Deborah Jeane Palfrey - case: there is a stunning contrast between the lid being kept on the names of male clients in this matter and the interest of the media compared to the speed with which Eliot Spitzer name became notorious in a similar [¡¦]
Environmentalists are calling Alistair Darling¡¯s first Budget as Chancellor a ¡®green smokescreen¡¯, accusing him of giving with one hand, but taking away with the other.
While Mr Darling announced plans for ¡®green¡¯ taxes on gas-guzzling cars, he removed the 20p per litre discount on the use of environmentally-friendly biofuels.
He presented several measures aimed at tackling climate [¡¦]
High-polluting vehicles will be hit harder, but incentives for green cars will be introduced and fuel duty rises shelved, announced Chancellor Alistair Darling in his 2008 budget.
Fuel duty
Lobbying from consumer and freight organisations, as well as record increases in oil prices, have convinced Chancellor Alistair Darling to delay planned fuel duty rises by six months.
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The world¡¯s number one terrorist organization, the CIA has committed heinous acts of terrorism abroad, murdering critics of US foreign and domestic policies and has done it on behalf of an increasing tiny, privileged American elite. This elite is a tiny one percent which owns more than the combined wealth the remaining 95% [See: the [¡¦]
Is Australia unwittingly helping the US Central Intelligence Agency with the notorious secret flights known as renditions?
Australian politicians and defense officials are refusing to address claims that Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) servicemembers are unwittingly involved in CIA flights that transport terror suspects from Afghanistan to face possible torture, Australia¡¯s Seven News reports.
Renditions are opposed [¡¦]
¡®Ever get the feeling you¡¯ve been cheated?¡± Johnny Rotten famously sneered to the audience at the San Francisco Winterland in 1978, just before the Sex Pistols split up. Well, 30 years on, we have all been cheated: ripped off, swindled, stitched up like kippers. What happened last week in the vote on the Lisbon Treaty [¡¦]
CHICAGO TRIBUNE - United Technologies Corp. made public Sunday an unsolicited $3 billion bid for Diebold, one of the largest makers of automated teller machines and voting machines. United Technologies, which first approached Diebold two years ago, initially made the offer in private Friday. The bid amounts to $40 a share in cash, or a [¡¦]
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THE UK Government is set to miss its target of halving the number of children living in poverty by around one million, MPs warn today.
The Commons Work and Pensions Committee said that it was still possible to turn the situation around before the target date of 2010 – but only if ministers were prepared to [¡¦]
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The US President condemns leaders who ¡¯sit down at the table¡¯ with ¡®tyrants¡¯ and ¡®have pictures taken¡¯ for adopting double standards.
¡°What¡¯s lost by embracing a tyrant who puts his people in prison because of their political beliefs? What¡¯s lost is it will send the wrong message,¡± said President George W. Bush during a Thursday [¡¦]
Paul Abrams
John McCain tells us that he is not a very good economist. It brings to mind the old joke that the definition of an economist is someone who is good with numbers but did not have the personality to be an accountant.
Prepare for a campaign during which McCain will prove to everyone that, as [¡¦]
Jeremy Scahill
A senior foreign policy adviser to leading Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told me that if elected Obama will not ¡°rule out¡± using private security companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq. The adviser also said that Obama does not plan to sign on to legislation that seeks to ban the use of these [¡¦]