Earlier this week, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez granted amnesty to supporters of a failed CIA coup in 2002 along with several others from US-backed opposition groups who’ve attempted to overthrow the Chavez government in more recent years.

Chess grandmaster and Russian presidential candidate Garry Kasparov was forced to the ground, beaten, and arrested by Moscow riot police yesterday during an anti-Kremlin rally of around 3,000 people.

That evil monster known as Hugo Chavez has once again said something outrageously unacceptable.

A federal judge has ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, and other senior officials to testify in the trial of two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbyists.

Jean Ziegler, a UN special rapporteur on the right to food, has condemned the production of biofuels for bringing about more hunger. The prices of some crops have also been pushed to record levels due to the growth in production of biofuels. This is because US farmers, in particular, have switched from producing crops such as wheat and soya to corn for ethanol.

Nufar Yishai-Karin, a clinical psychologist at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem recently conducted a study into the violent behavior of Israeli soldiers, in which 21 soldiers from the 1990s shared their experiences. An abbreviated form of the study, published in Haaretz newspaper last month, has provoked some bitter controversy.