The Impact of Climate Change in the Latin America-Caribbean Region
The Latin American and Caribbean region contains nearly half of the world’s diversity of plant and animal species and half of the world’s tropical forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Let Them Eat Gas: Problems with Ethanol
Ethanol, mainly an alcohol-based gasoline additive and more rarely an alternative fuel, has become a controversial topic when discussing clean alternatives to petroleum products.
High-tech Capitalism and the Class Struggle
The field of scientific research, technological development and its application to the production process is advancing at a dizzying and ever accelerating pace. Astounding new technological changes like the Internet are revolutionizing production and social life.
Afghanistan: UN Highlights Conflict’s Impact on Civilians
Armed conflict in Afghanistan has not only caused hundreds of civilian deaths but has also had a negative impact on many aspects of people’s lives.
Oil and the March to War
The US and fellow imperialist powers Britain, France and Germany are engaged in a far reaching and deadly serious campaign to carve up and take over the energy resources of the entire world.
Oaxaca Bombings: Terrorist Threat or Phantom Menace?
In the wake of a string of bomb and armed attacks, the Calderon government in Mexico may be facing its newest threat—or a phantom.
National Housing Trust Fund Passes House Committee
The US House Financial Services Committee approved on July 31, 2007, HR 2895, the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2007, with broad bipartisan support.
TIAA-CREF Says Coca-Cola not Socially Responsible
TIAA-CREF's $9 billion CREF Social Choice Account, the nation's largest socially-screened fund for individual investors, will not allow any investments in either The Coca-Cola Company or its two largest U.S. bottlers, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
Packaged with Abuse: Smithfield Workers to Take Message to Shareholders' Meeting
Labor union activists from around the country and workers at Smithfield Foods' Tar Heel, North Carolina plant will converge on the Smithfield Foods' 2007 Shareholders Meeting on August 29th in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Darfur Mortality: Shoddy Journalism at the New York Times
A recent op/ed on human mortality in Darfur, which appeared in the New York Times (“An Atrocity That Needs No Exaggeration,” Sunday, August 12, 2007), has garnered considerable attention, indeed notoriety.
