International – Page 488

CIA, Congress intervening in Venezuelas affairs

January 31, 2007

CIA chief Michael Hayden recently assured a congressional intelligence committee that the Hugo Chavez government in Venezuela is of prime agency concern. Outgoing intelligence head John Negroponte testified that Washington had a “good position in terms...

Womens rights are a vital issue in Iraq

January 26, 2007

This is an edited version of a presentation on Iraq’s constitution organized by the Iraqi Centre for Legal Studies last month in London. The constitution was approved in a national referendum Oct. 15, 2005, with a...

Communist Party leader appears On the Money

January 25, 2007

Watch New York Communist Party Chair Elena Mora on CNBC’s “On the Money.”

Colombia: murder and migration

January 23, 2007

Development projects anywhere in the world often have a high human cost. In Colombia, the price is often measured in human lives and blood. Esperanza (she would risk her life, she says, if her real name...

Carter condemns Israeli/U.S. policy toward Palestine

January 19, 2007

Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid By Jimmy Carter Simon & Schuster, 2006 Hardcover, 288 pp., $27 Book review Books by former presidents are usually the material for historians and history buffs. Readers look for revelations explaining decisions...