It should be clear once and for all that trickle down economics and tax cuts for the rich just don’t make sense as sound economic policy. In Bush’s view, economic stimulus meant handing hundreds of billions of dollars to the very wealthiest minority of Americans, while cutting back, privatizing, or eliminating public services that aid the vast majority

The freedom to join a union is a basic right guaranteed under the law. But as two new reports show, the main process whereby workers can choose union representation — NLRB-certified elections — stacks the odds unfairly in favor of employers waging aggressive anti-union campaigns.

Economic recovery means many things. One thing can be more hiring opportunities for temporary employees in the U.S. In the current phase of the business cycle, American employers are increasing their hiring of temporary workers, slowly. The demand for such employment had dropped in the recession of 2001 that followed the stock market slide.

To highlight several leaked British government documents that indicate the Bush administration was "fixing" intelligence to support the drive to war with Iraq, activists around the country are planning over 150 events on July 23, 2005.

WHY should one concern oneself with what prime minister Manmohan Singh had to say at Oxford on the occasion of his receiving an honorary D Litt? Not just because he is the prime minister. True, what the prime minister of India has to say even on such a quasi-academic occasion is not without significance.

One of the most difficult questions faced by contemporary dialectical materialism is the concept of progressive development in the world of nature. The applicability of the term "progressive" to particular stages in the evolutionary development in the biological world is till problematical.

The main Colombian magazine, Semana boasts that the Colombian president – President Uribe – is "an expert in negotiation," who "studied the peaceful resolution of conflicts at Harvard," and is "an excellent administrator," who ‘reduced the number of State employees in the Antioquian region from 14,000 to 5,700 people.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has dropped baseball, which Americans, myself included, have considered our "past-time" since the early 20th century, for the 2012 Olympics and beyond. Americans should be angry at this and their leaders should be protesting.

Most Comcast internet customers seem to have horror stories, but in my humble opinion this one is a doozie and may even suggest threats to freedom of speech more significant than the jailing of a court stenographer.

The roots of the recent political upheaval in Bolivia, where months of crippling protests and roadblocks prompted the ousting of President Carlos Mesa on June 6, were in large part economic. For the protestors, mostly indigenous Andean miners, peasants and workers, their struggle was as much about regaining control over their previously privatized oil and gas industries as it was securing fair government representation.

Popular Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador still maintains a sizable but diminished lead in the polls for next year’s presidential election. Fox’s failed attempt to impeach López Obrador only served to increase the mayor's popularity. López Obrador received acclaim by pursuing a populist agenda as mayor – establishing social programs that benefited Mexico City’s disadvantaged.

Looks like Karl Rove did break the law, the same federal law that got Martha Stewart sentenced to six months in prison. It now appears that Rove, President Bush’s chief of staff, may have lied to the FBI in October 2003—a federal crime—when he was questioned by federal agents investigating who was responsible for leaking information about a covert CIA operative to the media.

Not since Ronald Reagan gutted the PATCO Air Traffic Controllers has a union suffered such a high profile thrashing. After the longest labor lockout in the history of pro-sports, the National Hockey League Players Association now resembles John Ashcroft after 12 rounds with Eddie Mustafa Muhammad.

After decolonization and as a result of the colonial legacy, African countries’ economies have depended almost exclusively on agricultural production and the exploitation of minerals such as gold and diamonds. Africa’s participation in world trade dropped from 4% to 2% during the 1990s, and currently, excluding South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria, this participation is nearing 0%.

UNICEF warned [that] AIDS has a dramatic impact on underage people, and drew attention to the plight of Africa due to this illness, where life expectancy has reduced from 60 to less than 40 years, and almost 15 million children have lost one or both parents.

The Venezuelan revolution must be defended as an example to all of Latin America and to the world. In Venezuela, the people rose. From the grass roots level, the people have founded their own democracy...The U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Campaign opposes all forms of intervention by the U.S. government and its agencies in Venezuela...

"Some 3.6 million people, including 800,000 children, are facing acute malnutrition, which at any moment could turn into a famine," said Ziegler, a Swiss sociologist.[He] said the response of the international community to this tragedy had been totally inadequate. "It's scandalous. We have received less than a quarter of the funding we asked for..."

According to Steven P. Martin, Ph.D., ... who just released a monumental study of divorce in America over the last 30 years, the divorce rate is directly correlated to a lack of education, especially among women...But accusing gay marriage advocates of contributing to the demise of the cultural institution of marriage is misguided.

This past weekend's inauguration of a new "government of national unity" (GNU) for Sudan, while unquestionably an historic event, hardly heralds immediate peace for either Darfur or Eastern Sudan, and does nothing to change the deteriorating situation on the ground in South Sudan, where critical transitional needs continue to be largely unfunded by the international community.

It’s all very exciting. Just days ago, word came out that White House aid and President Bush’s close friend, Karl Rove, leaked classified information to the press about the identity of an undercover CIA agent.