Saddam Hussein’s cousin and aide Chemical Ali has been executed.

The Haitians fought for their freedom and won, as did the Americans fifty years earlier. The Americans declared their independence and crafted an extraordinary constitution that set out a clear message about the value of humanity and the right to freedom, justice, and liberty.

The Haitian government has started rallying medical supplies and other forms of aid to assist thousands of people affected by the Tuesday quake.

MULTINATIONAL companies sued by victims of South Africa’s apartheid government have challenged the jurisdiction of the US courts in adjudicating compensation claims filed by victims, saying brutalities committed by the apartheid government were not committed on US soil.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s ticket came from a KLM office in Accra, Ghana. Demuren said Monday that Abdulmutallab bought the $2,831 round-trip ticket from Lagos, Nigeria, to Detroit via Amsterdam on Dec. 16.

For some months the world has seen a steady escalation of US military involvement in Yemen, a dismally poor land adjacent to Saudi Arabia on its north, the Red Sea on its west, the Gulf of Aden on its south, opening to the Arabian Sea, overlooking another desolate land that has been in the headlines of late, Somalia.

It is high time that civilian and military personnel in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the US Army fix what in the minds of many has become a get-rich scheme for retired military contractors and their friends.

AN angry Italian man, the dramatic equivalent of the Bush Shoe Thrower from Al Baghdadiya TV, broke Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s nose at a political rally in Italy Sunday. Italian newspapers say the man is being detained by police. His reason for attacking Berlusconi, “I hate him.”

Debate is raging over the fate of 215 terrorism suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay, further illustrating the devisive nature of terrorism.
Last week, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that five al-Qaida suspects would be brought to the US to stand trial in New York, igniting bitter reactions from mostly Republican lawmakers.

Cuba is one of the countries that actively contributed to Namibia’s independence from apartheid South Africa. Apart from providing the much needed ideological and logistical support to Namibia during the west African country’s arduous struggle for independence, Cuba sent an estimated 371,000 troops to fight alongside South West African People’s Organisation combatants in Angola over a period of 15 years and provided refuge to Namibians displaced by the war. When the crimson curtain closed on that brutal conflict, Namibia managed to free itself from the shackles of coloninal dominance. Cuba is many things to many people and is seen differently in different parts of the world. Here is one such perspective from Bill Simpich, an antiwar activist in the San Francisco Bay Area.