(click image) The Economy: The Fierce Urgency of Now!

They "should be shot; should be thrown out of there goddamn jobs," Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus said last month about business leaders who do not oppose the Employee Free Choice Act.

Venezuelan citizens and institutions have donated more than four million dollars to Cuba to help in the ongoing recovery efforts after the devastation caused by three hurricanes in recent weeks.

We hail the 10’s of millions who came to the polls and registered an historic defeat of the ultra right. These voters saw through the direct and indirect appeals to racism and voted for Obama. We salute those who rejected the Republican anti-communist, anti-immigrant attacks and numerous other slanders and voted their hopes and not their fears.

Qurban-Bibi and Nahil Abu-Rada are two women, one Afghan and the other Palestinian, who made news with similar tragedies. But their losses also helped further delineate the plight of millions of women in war zones and poor countries.

The UN is asking for a record US$7 billion to help 30 million people in Africa and the Middle East. "The money is being used to keep people alive," said John Holmes, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, at the Consolidated Appeals Process launch in Geneva on 19 November.

Seven years of British involvement in the US-led illegal occupation of Afghanistan have brought no benefit to the people of either country. Afghans have been slaughtered in their tens of thousands, for identifying with the "government" of Hamid Karzai.

Kulavivaksha Vyatireka Porata Sangham (KVPS -- Struggle Committee Against Caste Discrimination) in Andhra Pradesh recently completed 10 years of its existence.

Resolution Passed Unanimously by the New York State Alliance of Higher Education Unions, November 14, 2008. In light of the financial crisis facing the nation and higher education, we affirm the following

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Headlines for October – November 2008 issue

A few weeks back, we received an e-mail alert from a friend to take action on behalf of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union (AFSCME) on standing up for California public workers in the face of steep budget cuts proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The hardening of French immigration policy, following Nicolas Sarkozy's appointment as Interior Minister in 2002 and his subsequent election as President in 2007, is not the exception in the European Union but the rule.

My feeling is exactly what I write in the article, which is to say, I am very hopeful, but I lack sufficient information to be more than hopeful. I wasn't saying that only others need more information, though many other people do, of course.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows!,” Bob Dylan famously sang in 1965. And no one now debates that there is indeed an economic crisis upon us. Note that after at least 20 years of gridlock in Congress, an unprecedented “bipartisan consensus” has arisen to give Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson a “blank check.”

Kishore Mahbubani’s new book, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, is a sobering text that should be read with three points in mind.