Failure to take actions that send a clear message of condemnation will be devastating to the still-fragile U.S. image in Latin America.

Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will soon introduce legislation to sanction any company that sells sensitive technology aiding the Iranian regime in monitoring or blocking Internet connections or cellular phone conversations.

This week, Ritu Sharma, Women Thrive's President and Co-founder, is in Burkina Faso trying to answer the question: is agriculture working for women and mothers in Africa? Read Ritu's diary from the field.

These folks have a lot to learn about civil liberties, not to mention a lot about Christianity, too.

This is one of many brutal coups of the past 10 years in Latin America. Behind the soldiers are the Honduran bourgeois, who converted Honduras into a Banana republic, into a political & military base for North American imperialism, to exploit the people.

Interestingly enough, the Jewish state that sets its raison d'être around the remembrance of Jewish suffering is attempting to ban Palestinians from doing exactly the same with their own.

Thank you, America! Israeli style!

The truth of the Nakba has been hidden for many decades. Not many except the Palestinians are aware of the scale of 1948 ethnic expulsions and even fewer are aware of the atrocities occasionally performed by the newly born IDF.

Tristan Anderson, who was critically wounded by a high-velocity tear gas canister fired at his head by Israeli forces in March, has been moved from the intensive care unit of the

Venezuelan President Chavez: "It's the bourgeoisie that's trying to block a popular vote. They fear the people". Zelaya "did the right thing" by dismissing General Vasquez, remembering the bloody role of the U.S.-backed Honduran military against democracy