HAVANA, Cuba, June 10 (acn) Wind and hydraulic energy could help Cuba generate an amount of electricity equivalent to the generating capacity of the nine thermoelectric power plants that exist in the country today.

In an attempt to reach technological independence Cuba has placed its bets on open-source software, a fact evidenced at the presentation of the Nova Operative System 2.0 during the 2009 International Convention of Informatics.

Richard Wolff (Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) has released a DVD titled Capitalism Hits the Fan. It contains a lecture he gave November 19, 2008, along with some supporting graphics.

If a Romare Bearden painting, a Pablo Neruda poem and a Billie Holiday blues were by means of an arcane alchemy combined to form some rare and breathtaking thing, it might be called Wandering Star, a stunning novel by the 2008 Noble Prize-winning French author J. M.G. Le Clezio.

While Obama proclaims the 21st century, the government of Israel is returning to the 19th. One man spoke to the world, and the world listened. He walked onto the stage in Cairo alone, without hosts and without aides, and delivered a sermon to an audience of billions.

When President Obama stated that he didn't feel any pressure to choose either a minority or a woman in his choice to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter, I immediately twittered to the known universe that he was going to pick a white guy. By now the name Sotomayor is a household word. Shows you how much I know.

The Secretary of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party of Iraq, Hamid Majeed Mousa, has called upon Arab forces and governments to exert pressure in order to transform items mentioned in US President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo into concrete reality.

The 20th anniversary of the events that took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4, 1989 has been and gone. Much of the media in Australia and elsewhere in the capitalist world launched into the predicted outpouring of mock concern for democratic and human rights in China.

Today at noon (June 8) Mayor Carl Redus of Pine Bluff, Arkansas hosted a meeting for the AFL-CIO with the Arkansas Conference of Black Mayors. Twenty or so mayors were at the lunch meeting at the Pine Bluff Ramada Conference Center.

A recent poll showed just about half of Americans think capitalism is better than socialism. With the collapse of the financial system and the economy, the ideology of the free market has fewer and fewer adherents.

What is at stake in opposing the Macapagal-Arroyo-sponsored Constituent Assembly is our right and responsibility to defend the people's democratic rights. While the current constitution is not perfect, it is only through the democratic exercise of our freedoms can we determine the changes needed for the rule of law to serve the people.

Tel Aviv – Thousands of peace and communists activists marched Saturday, June 6, 2009 in Tel Aviv marking 42 years of Palestinian territories occupation.

President Obama is back from his trip abroad. It was a remarkable tour, during which he spoke of peace, democracy and progress in Egypt, and then, in Germany, he confronted some of the greatest crimes against humanity ever perpetrated, crimes that were the direct result of fascism and war.

As someone who has done extensive research over decades into the history of anti-communism in the US, I see Daniel Rosenberg's new memoir, Underground Communists in the McCarthy Period, as towering above the “red diaper baby” literature that has emanated from some children of Communist Party activists over the last generation.

Two Colombian generals, both of whom received training at the U.S. Army's "School of The Americas" (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Ga., have been accused by Colombian authorities of crimes involving narcotics and collaborating with criminal paramilitary groups, according to a report in the June 15th issue of The Nation magazine.

At a recent Chinese-American event dinner, I had fun chatting with two interesting neighbors at my table. On my left was a seasoned Seattle urban planning consultant. Our conversation started with his tour down China’s Yangtze River last summer, and his marveling at Beijing’s decision to build the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydro project.

The swine flu scare may have receded from the public eye, but the fear of a pandemic still remains. Along with the threat of a pandemic, the issues that have come up include the old one of the implication of patent monopoly for vital life saving drugs and whether the industrial mode of producing meat/poultry products is giving rise to threat of new diseases.

Ronald Takaki, a gifted and enormously productive scholar and teacher died last month. The press reported that his death followed a 20-year struggle with multiple sclerosis. Takaki was a gentle unassuming man, a remarkable lecturer with a sometimes whimsical sense of humor.

Yet the fact is that Miss Childress, maintaining a light and charming tone, and the greatest readability, does move the reader – to tears and to laughter – but mostly to anger, the kind of anger which is the courage to change and fight against the ugliness surrounding us.

The positive atmosphere surrounding last Thursday's meeting between President Barack Obama and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, confirms the new US administration has changed the approach to the Middle East.