Full Coverage: Politics

19.12.2006 The Coalition for Promotion of Women, Youth and Minorities in Politics, in cooperation with youth forums of political parties, organised today the Forum of all Youth Leaders with the aim to seek ways to increase the cooperation and communication between the organisations on common youth issues.

18.12.2006 A mídia hegemônica não se conforma com a surra levada na eleição presidencial e procura, a todo custo, impor o seu programa rejeitado nas urnas ao novo governo do presidente Lula. No que se refere à política externa, essa manobra é descarada.

15.12.2006 NEW YORK, Dec 14 (OneWorld) - When Democratic lawmakers return to Washington next month to take over Congressional leadership positions, many will be under heavy pressure from their supporters to start impeachment hearings against President George W. Bush.

13.12.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 13 (OneWorld) - Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress are likely to drive U.S. military budgets even higher in 2007, experts say.

09.12.2006 from Oil Change blog:
UK Chancellor Gordon Brown came under strong attack after responding to the government’s own dire warnings on climate change with a modest £1bn package of green taxes in his pre-budget report.

08.12.2006 While acknowledging that all of these irregularities occurred, the tribunal, astonishingly, did not consider them grounds to annul the election. The tribunal's decision is at the center of the country's current political crisis and democratic regression.

05.12.2006 O presidente bolivariano da Venezuela, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias, está reeleito para um novo mandato de seis anos, com mais de 60% dos votos dos eleitores de seu país. Chávez derrotou o candidato norte-americano Manoel Rosales e em sua primeira declaração afirmou que “o diabo que pretende dominar o mundo foi derrotado”.

05.12.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Dec 4 (OneWorld) - Continued pressure from the nation's leading civil society organizations and consistent Senate opposition forced President George W. Bush to back down from his decision to reappoint John Bolton as the top U.S. diplomat at the United Nations.

04.12.2006 A background note to the Indonesia Guide

04.12.2006 from Global Warming Watch:
If we don't soon move past the stage where the more things change -- like the climate -- the more they stay the same -- like politics -- we're in trouble.

03.12.2006 from Oil Change blog:
We might just be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Bush Administration’s flawed and belligerent approach to climate change.

01.12.2006 Rape and other transgressions, unfortunately, appear to be looked upon as just another weapon in the arsenal of some of Haiti’s politicians by which they can crush opposition to them and whatever designs they may have on power.

01.12.2006 In this young democracy, only 27 years old, the presidency has had a tumultuous history. In the last 15 years, only one elected president has finished out his term. In the last ten years, Ecuador has had eight presidents.