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Hungary: Bloody Monday

John Horvath November 9, 2006 John Horvath

The police crackdown against peaceful demonstrators on the night of October 23, 2006, shows that there is very little difference between the past and the present.

A Media Innovator Leaves the Scene

Rene Wadlow November 8, 2006 Rene Wadlow

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber -JJ-SS as he was known to headline writers and his numerous friends and enemies in the French media- was a bright star of life in the 1950s, although he only died on 7 November 2006 at the age of 82.

Kentucky Voters Could Reclaim Local Water Supply

Shreema Mehta November 7, 2006 Shreema Mehta

Source: NewStandard News

Voters in a Kentucky county today could approve a referendum that would make their privatized water system public.

Citizens who vote "yes" on the referendum could empower the Lexington-Fayette Urban County government to purchase the water company that serves more than 310,000 people in the area. The ballot measure calls on the county to purchase Kentucky American Water using the most effective means possible, including eminent domain.

The company is a subsidiary of American Water, which in turn is part of the German conglomerate RWE AG. read more

Ecuador on the Edge: A Tale of Two Presidential Candidates

Cyril Mychalejko November 2, 2006 Cyril Mychalejko

The question of who wins the election race in Ecuador on November 26 may be overshadowed by the uncertainty over whether the winner will actually survive a full term. The politically unstable South American nation has had nine presidents over the last ten years. The current front-runner is Alvaro Noboa, a billionaire banana tycoon who has run unsuccessfully twice in the past. He won 27 percent of the vote in the first-round, edging out Rafael Correa (and 11 other candidates), a U.S trained economist who ran on a platform that attacked Washington's neoliberal policies, as well as the traditional corruption plaguing Ecuador's political system.

Central Asian Leadership for a Nuclear-free Korean Peninsula

Rene Wadlow October 31, 2006 Rene Wadlow

With a political sky darkened by the nuclear weapon test of North Korea and the growing tensions over the nuclear program of Iran, a ray of sunlight comes from Central Asia.

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law

Frank Morales October 26, 2006 Frank Morales

In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.