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Japan elections: JCP as ‘constructive opposition party’ gains support

August 30, 2009 By Japan Press Weekly

At a news conference on August 24 in Nagano City, Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo made the following comments at the present stage of the election campaign:

US role in Colombia and Honduras sparks Latin American criticism

August 30, 2009 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Storm signs are up over Latin America as new tensions play out against historical memories. The great liberator, Simon Bolivar, said in 1929 that the United States is "destined by Providence to plague America with misery...

I survived a health care town hall

August 29, 2009 By Jack Buthod

Any one paying attention to the news media’s coverage of the health care town halls across the country could be forgiven for assuming they all must be full of loud, gun-toting talk-radio disciples who would all...

Unfazed by Glenn Beck, silent majority turning out to back health reform

August 28, 2009 By Susan Webb

You wouldn't know it from the sensation-hungry commercial media and the right-wing pundits, but supporters of health care reform and a public option are turning out at vigils, rallies and town hall events across the country.

Immigrant workers demand back wages from NBC Contractors

August 28, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

HAYWARD, Calif. - "When I heard about NBC Contractors denying workers their rights and the pay they deserve, I thought about my father, and the struggles he went through when he emigrated from China 25 years...