Full Coverage: United States

30.01.2008 The Africa Command (Africom) - the US military command headquarters for Africa - infringes on the sovereignty of the continent's states, say Mark P Fancher, Jeffrey L Edison and Ajamu Sankofa.
From Pambazuka News

29.01.2008 Listen to Chalmers Johnson, whose most recent books focus on the American empire: Blowback, The Sorrows of Empireand now Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.

29.01.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 28 (OneWorld) - An arms control group in Washington, DC has begun a petition drive urging Congress to stop President Bush from signing an agreement they say could bind his successor to continue the occupation of Iraq for another five years.

25.01.2008 When George W Bush gives his last State of the Union address, a milestone will be passed. But don't think his unpopularity puts the Republicans out of the race for the US presidency, says Andrew Stephen.
From New Statesman

24.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 24 (OneWorld) - A broad coalition is urging consumers and grocery stores to refuse burgers, milk, and other products from cloned animals, following a U.S. government decision to lift a ban on the controversial foods.

24.01.2008 President Bush and key members of his administration "made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq," reports an investigative journalism organization.
From: The Center for Public Integrity

24.01.2008 Globally, 13 percent of maternal deaths result from abortion-related complications, but in Kenya it's as high as 40 percent -- and many women's rights advocates are drawing a direct link between this devastating reality and the effect U.S. reproductive-health policies have in other countries.

24.01.2008 WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (OneWorld) - As General Motors vied with Toyota over who sold more cars during 2007, U.S. environmental activists were sending a different sort of sales message to automakers gathered at the Washington Auto Show: "Increase fuel efficiency."

23.01.2008 As the U.S. presidential primaries continue, candidates are making sure to address the oft-overshadowed foreign policy affair that is Latin America. Here is what they have to say.

23.01.2008 Despite President Bush's optimism at the end of his Middle East peace tour, analyst Jamal Dajani paints a very different picture, citing recent bouts of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as political complexities within their respective governments.

21.01.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 21 (OneWorld) - South Carolina voters concerned about global warming are calling on the Democratic candidates for president to focus on climate change solutions as they stage a public debate in the resort town of Myrtle Beach this evening.

20.01.2008 Like all docudramas, Battle for Haditha raises the issue of the ethics of imagining a real event – in this case, the retaliatory massacre of 24 Iraqis after a roadside bomb killed two US soldiers – and presenting it as a drama.

18.01.2008 Guantánamon vankileiri on toiminut kuusi vuotta. Leirille lennätetyistä sadoista vangeista tähän mennessä vain yksi on todettu oikeudessa syylliseksi ja tuomittu. Vankileirillä on edelleen lähes 400 kolmeakymmentä eri kansallisuutta edustavaa vankia.

18.01.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17 (OneWorld) - As they travel the country searching for votes, each of the big three Democratic candidates for president has pledged to withdraw large numbers of troops from Iraq during their first year in office.

17.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 17 (OneWorld) - A diverse coalition of environmental and peace organizations in the United States is urging Congress to reject the Bush administration's move to send nuclear technologies to India.

17.01.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 16 (OneWorld) - A federal court in San Francisco has cleared the way for a major national class action lawsuit on behalf of veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

16.01.2008 YK:n pääsihteeri Ban Ki-moon ei kehunut suurilla saavutuksilla ensimmäisen virkavuotensa päättyessä. Arvostelijoiden mukaan hän ei myöskään tartu riittävän lujasti uusiin haasteisiin.

14.01.2008 Twenty U.S. donors made gifts of $100 million or more last year, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual ranking of the 50 most-generous Americans - and fundraisers seeking donations of $10 million or more predict another strong year of big gifts in 2008.

14.01.2008 YK:n pääsihteeri Ban Ki-moon ei kehunut suurilla saavutuksilla ensimmäisen virkavuotensa päättyessä. Arvostelijoiden mukaan hän ei myöskään tartu riittävän lujasti uuden vuoden haasteisiin, eikä varsinkaan uhmaa mahtivaltioiden ylivaltaa.

14.01.2008 The International Red Cross and the U.S. have introduced a programme to enable the approximately 600 prisoners at the US jail in Bagram, Afghanistan, to communicate with their families via video-teleconference calls.