THE US establishment hopes it will soon be able to silence one of its most consistent critics. Only urgent worldwide protests will be able to stop them...
Every DAY 30,500 children under five die from mainly preventable causes. Every MONTH another 250,000 children and young people become infected with the fatal HIV/AIDS virus...
THE GOVERNMENT is giving public money to build a dam in south eastern Turkey even though its own official reports have concluded that the project will lead to an environmental and human disaster...
THE SCOTTISH Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has called a blockade of the Faslane nuclear base for Monday 14 February...
SOME 140 years ago white enemy of slavery John Brown stood in the dock of a Virginia courtroom, knowing that Southern slaveholders were certain to pass the death sentence on him...
CURTIS MAYFIELD, the black soul singer, died on Boxing Day. He produced some of the most inspiring music of the last 30 years. Songs like "Move On Up" and "Keep On Pushing" became rallying cries...
TONY BLAIR used the New Year's honours list to reward the rich and powerful. Richard Branson of Virgin and Alan Sugar of Amstrad were both made knights...
DO WE consume too much? Not long after Christmas, the answer might seem to be obviously yes!...
STORMS AND gales wreaked devastation in Latin America and Europe at the end of 1999. Floods in Venezuela killed up to 30,000 people and made over 200,000 homeless. In France over 80 people were killed...
MUCH OF the press hailed chancellor Gordon Brown as the liberator of the new millennium for his pre-Christmas pledge to cancel Third World debt. But the reality is utterly different...
