US and European imperialists have never been so powerful as today. There does not exist any major progressive power to oppose their hegemony politically, economically, or even culturally. Their military strength is overwhelming. The IMF and World Bank dictate economic policy to the poor countries, while the rich don the garb of charitable concern...

Foreign debt is often omitted, or vaguely mentioned in the Goals of the Millennium adopted by the United Nations, but there is no way out for it...It does not appear in proposals like the Free Trade Area of the Americas or bilateral agreements pushed by Washington in its relations with Latin America or the Caribbean.

A Palestinian human rights report prepared by three organizations working in the domain of human and women rights, made clear that 55 women, since the beginning of Al-Aqsa Intifada till Mach 2004, delivered their babies at the Israeli checkpoints, whereas 33 babies of the 55 died.

Arab Labor Organization in Cairo reported that the Israeli practices during the last three years caused the Palestinian economy loses assessed at $14 billion...The three- day assembly discusses the devastating impacts of the Israeli occupation practices on the economic and social situations in the Palestinian lands ...

About 12 million people in southern Africa - two-thirds of them in Malawi and Zimbabwe - are in need of emergency food aid, and the FAO expects the situation to worsen during the lean months before the next harvest in April-May 2006, unless international relief is provided urgently.

The archconservative opinion rag National Review welcomed hypocritical gambling addict and anti-public education ideologue William Bennett back into the public spotlight this past week.

Two and a half years since the imperialist invasion of Iraq by the USA and its allies, the victims of the occupation now number in thousands.

David Corn, DavidCorn.com, published an article today (9-29-05) on his site and on www.tompaine.com arguing that last weekend's march on Washington to end the war was a waste of time and money and energy and won't help end the war. I disagree, but think Corn makes some useful points.

Tell your representative that you don't want someone indicted on criminal charges sitting in Congress. Report shows that Republican Medicare program costs more than existing VA drug program. Republicans are up to more Social Security privatization shenanigans. Study shows that spending on Iraq war cost the lives of thousands as a result of Katrina disaster.

ENDANGERING their lives by committing themselves to a persistent hunger strike would seem to be the only way for prisoners on the illegal U.S. naval base in Guantánamo, Cuba, to expose their unjustified imprisonment and the precarious conditions of life to which they have been subjected.

The bombing of Gaza by Israeli planes means that despite the removal of the settlements from Gaza, the occupation and warfare against the Palestinian people continues - thus said MK Issam Makhoul, General Secretary of the Israeli Communist Party (CPI), at a speech given to the Central Committee of the party on September 23rd, 2005.

Workers who are not eligible for unemployment insurance qualify for federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA)—but those benefits are set at half a state’s average weekly UI benefit, which would be less than $100 a week in all three states, according to a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

The project aims at bridging the gap between different cultures and allowing the Sudanese Diaspora to make a significant contribution to the search for unity and peace. Knowledge of the people living in South Sudan and respect for their cultural identity is a major objective of the Gurtong Peace Project.

The formation of the Government of National Unity (GONU) in Sudan on 20 September 2005 after several weeks of heated debates between National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement(SPLM) have revealed four important lessons which the SPLM leadership must carefully study and take some actions on

I arrived home on Sunday from the peace and social justice rally in Washington DC and began reflecting. As my mind sifted through the barrage of information which came at me over the course of the weekend, and the information I absorbed while reading on the plane, I began to reach some conclusions and to connect some dots...

The Dominican Republic´s latest statistics show an ailing education system with more than 100,000 dropouts and 117,000 repeaters during the 2004 education year.The latest official statistics considers 7th the largest dropout grade with more than 10 out of every 100 students; 9.5 per cent in 6th grade and 1.8 per cent in 8th grade.

Republican Rep. Tom DeLay (TX) should resign his position in Congress, not just his leadership role, say Washington corruption watchdog groups. According to a House Ethics Committee complaint... TRMPAC officials solicited funds from Texas-based energy company Westar. E-mails and internal memos show that DeLay and Westar communicated about donations, and that money was subsequently given to TRMPAC...

It's one thing to lie in politics. It's another to be caught in a lie. Bill Frist has been caught in a lie. His political future is over. The immediate question is, can he survive as Majority Leader?...According to an Associated Press report Saturday, Frist “received regular updates of transfers of assets to his blind trusts and sales of assets. He also was able to initiate a stock sale of a hospital chain founded by his family with perfect timing.

Early in the 19th Century, Napoleon asked a prominent scientist about the existence of God. The scientist’s famous response was that that was not a question that we had to ask. He didn’t mean that it was a question that couldn’t be answered by science...He meant that the questions that science asks and builds upon have nothing to do with religion.

Imagine you could take years and years to carefully study political history, that you could read numerous sources of political news from around the world, that you could do your own research into declassified government documents and little known areas of information...Chomsky knows an incredible amount of information and is brilliant at analyzing it. He does so without any theory or pretense, using a vocabulary that any high school graduate has mastered.