While there is little chance Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, will ever be brought to trial following his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC), the charges brought against him nevertheless offer hope for anyone concerned about human rights around the world.
For Americans, however, the ICC indictment should offer a moment of sombre reflection not merely for our relative inaction with regard to years of mass
Cynthia McKinney won the Green Party of the United States presidential nomination at the July 12 GP-US Convention in Chicago. McKinney, a former Member of Congress from Georgia, received 313 of 532 first round votes to earn nomination by Greens delegates from across the country excited that she will be their standard bearer this year. Hip-hop activist and journalist Rosa Clemente was selected to be the vice-presidential candidate of the Greens.
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Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who seems poised to capture the Green Party presidential nomination, in Chicago, this month, "is at this juncture in historythe only vehicle through which progressives can both register their outrage at Barack Obama and begin the process of rebuilding a mass, Black-led movement for real social change."
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For most readers, the biggest troubles in their lives are petrol prices, long working hours, and increasing food costs. For many women in the world, these are the least of their concerns. Terrible atrocities are committed against untold numbers of women around the world every day and for most of these women, justice will never be served.
Well history says differently, alas we have not learn from it. How long will we the people let the current administration get away with breaking the law? Isn't it time to impeach Bush & Co.?
June 17, 1972
In the early morning five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. They had been hired by President Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) to install bugging devices and copy documents.
Considering the cost of fuel and environmental impact of personalized transportation I believe we need to examen our way of travel.
The Scottish Socialist Party ’s campaign for free public transport is an ``audacious, eye-catching idea'' according to Douglas Fraser, political editor of The Herald newspaper.
In the Belgian city of Hasselt, which covers an area double the size of Dundee, congestion was eliminated in the late 1980s after the introduction of a totally free public transport system.
June 28, 2000: Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality.
"I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply and I will use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot."
"Ours is a nation that helped Kuwait and the Saudis, and you'd thinkwe'd have the capital necessary to convince them to increase the crude supplies."
While the future effects of global warming are still hotly debated, the one very real thaw it has already produced is between the world’s environmentalists and their foes on the political right. Think John McCain’s embrace of the climate-change issue, or the greening of Britain’s Tories under their leader, David Cameron. The latest ice to break is between Germany’s once radical, antiestablishment Green Party and their erstwhile archenemy, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU). In a formerly unthinkable and possibly far-reaching realignment of German politics, conservatives and the Green Party have been entering alliances in local and regional parliaments, creating new power options for both parties—and a laboratory for breaking the logjam that has paralyzed German politics.
While the future effects of 