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Pharmaceutical trials in developing countries criticized

Profit still trumps public health for ‘Big Pharma’ firms (FCN, 12/08/2006)Pharmaceutical cartel: How does it work? (FCN, 02/04/2004)Activists charge pharmaceutical cartel with being...

Zimbabwe elected to chair UN commission, despite Western and European protests

Britain continues to pressure UN to censure Zimbabwe (FCN, 04-13-2007) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Zimbabwe was elected to chair the UN Commission on Sustainable Development...

Pentagon aimed to control Iraqi media during war

JIM.LOBE National Security Archive reveals Pentagon aimed to control Iraqi media during war Pentagon OK's Propaganda for Iraq (LA Times, 03-04-2006)Pentagon pays Iraqi papers to print...

UN-backed court to start trial of Charles Taylor in June

UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The war crimes trial against the deposed former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, will begin on June 4 with opening...

Black media delegation returns from Darfur

U.S., British interference complicates Sudan crisis (FinalCall.com) - The truth concerning the atrocities and fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region–an area that is overwhelmingly Muslim and...

Despite U.S. threat of sanctions, Sudan demands African Union peacekeeping force

U.S. and Britain want tougher sanctions for Sudan (FCN, 04-24-2007)Sudanese president answers questions on Darfur (FCN, 05-14-2007)Reconnecting the international struggles of Black people (Min. Louis...

Ulterior motives believed to drive U.S. war on terror, survey says

JIM.LOBE U.S. conduct in ‘terror war’ destroyed image abroad (FCN, 07-17-2006)Neo-con fanatics push internment for American Muslims (FCN, 02-18-2005)The "War on Terror Exposed" (FCN/Min....

Sudanese president answers questions on Darfur

ASKIAM DETROIT (FinalCall.com) - The United States and the United Kingdom are themselves causing, and then exaggerating, a “crisis” in the African “Motherland's” largest and...

U.S. ‘surge’ strategy fails to curb continued violence in Iraq

JIM.LOBE Iraq war anniversary: The quagmire enters its fifth year (FCN, 04-09-2007)The greatest foreign policy blunder since Vietnam (FCN, 01-26-2007)Iraq war deaths 'top 650,000'...

UN resolution on Iran a matter of containment

When the facts on Iran don’t match the rhetoric (FCN, 10-21-2006)Iran showdown tests power of ‘Israel lobby’ (FCN, 04-26-2006)  Iranian ambassador sets the record...