"A terrorist on every corner"

Benin, Brazil endorse proposed Africa-Latin America summit
President Mathieu Kérékou of Benin and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacia da Silva have underscored the need to hold a summit between African, Latin American and Caribbean countries as part of the South-South dialogue aimed at promoting economic and political rapprochement between the two continents.

Lynchburg museum explains pain of racism
LYNCHBURG Jim Crow was a real man who should have engendered sympathy. Instead, he became a symbol of an era that treated all black people with disregard, an era after slavery but before civil rights, an era when the Ku Klux Klan enforced its philosophy of white supremacy with deadly results.

An American Indian's View Of The Cartoons
The old adage that was popularized in Hollywood westerns," White man speaks with forked tongue" had a special meaning. It denoted the deceit of European settlers who often lied to North American Indian people as they stole coveted lands and nearly decimated them as a people. The recent split tongue approach used in defending Danish racist cartoons as freedom of speech must be loudly condemned as just more attacks on the rights of Muslims to defend their lands, culture and self determination.

The Tempest Over the Hamas Charter
The Hamas charter has been the subject of fairly extensive media coverage in recent weeks. A number of newspaper pieces have argued that the charter is unapologetically racist; some have gone even further.

A terrorist on every corner
President Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insist that the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of American citizens is a necessary "terrorist surveillance program." And polls show that most Americans support permitting the government to tap the phone calls and e-mails of those considered "suspicious."

Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.

South Africa's 'Harlem' restored
A suburb of Johannesburg that was once the "Harlem of South Africa" has had its original name, Sophiatown, restored.

Venezuela strongly supports Iran's nuke issue
Venezuela strongly reaffirmed its support for Iran's peaceful nuclear program, according to IRNA.

Iran nuke works has not been diverted: S. Africa
South African Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna has said that based on investigations and analysis carried out so far by the IAEA, Iran has no deviated from its peaceful nuclear program, IRNA reported.

'White farmers are irrelevant'
The government on Friday described Zimbabwe's remaining white farmers as unrepentant and irrelevant, and rejected their pleas for a halt to land seizures.

Zimbabwe: Elephants And Humans On a Collision Course
According to the 2005 annual report by the Community Areas Management Programme or Campfire, an initiative to ensure sustainable wildlife management, elephants were responsible for 12 deaths last year, an increase from the 10 recorded in 2004.

Blair vows to keep up pressure on aid for Africa
Prime Minister Tony Blair has vowed to keep up pressure for international help for Africa, saying the wealthy world still needs to make good its promises to give aid, trade and peacekeeping help.

Air Force Revises Guidelines on Religion

New tomb found in Valley of the Kings

Report: Cheney linked to CIA leak

25 deaths linked to ADHD drugs

Critical patch coming for Windows Media Player

Judge shelves case over Jesus' existence

IRI Election Manipulation in Haiti

Whose Web Is It, Anyway?

$8 million tax bill for $121,900 home

U.S. prods likely Haiti victor to shun Aristide

Hand back Falklands, Venezuela tells Blair

Mardi Gras Revelers Find Solace in Satire

U.S. Missionaries Leave Venezuela Outposts

Mitsubishi, Historical Revisionism and Japanese Corporate Resistance to Chinese Forced Labor Redress

America's Historic Debt to Haiti

Autonomy vote for Pacific islands

Whitewashing a Legacy