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  • European Union adopts Big Brother directive

    European Union adopts Big Brother directive

    January 6, 2006

    News Analysis The European Parliament launched an unprecedented attack on civil liberties and the democratic rights of the citizens of the 25 European Union (EU) member countries last month by legalizing the surveillance of private citizens’...

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  • World Notes

    World Notes

    January 6, 2006

    Argentina: Worker takeover successful When Argentina’s economy took a nosedive four years ago, the San Justo glassworks in Buenos Aires was one of many enterprises that went bankrupt. For months a group of workers at the...

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  • Cuba waging fight against corruption

    Cuba waging fight against corruption

    January 6, 2006

    Cuban President Fidel Castro, speaking Nov. 17 at the University of Havana, asked, “Do you believe that this revolutionary socialist process can fall apart, or not?” His answer: “This revolution can destroy itself. … We can...

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  • Ready for the coming crisis with Bolivia?

    Ready for the coming crisis with Bolivia?

    January 6, 2006

    Commentary Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) won an absolute majority in the Bolivian presidential elections Dec. 18. He will be sworn in on Jan. 22. Morales comes from the Aymara ethnic group, who,...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    January 6, 2006

    LOUISVILLE, Ky.: Hundreds honor Emancipation Day Freedom knows no religious bounds as hundreds celebrated achievements of civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 1, the day 143 years after the...

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