Working family activists have forced President Bush to rescind his pay cut for the workers who will rebuild the Gulf Coast, effective Nov. 8...They are using the tragedy of the Gulf Coast hurricanes as an excuse to slash federal spending on crucial programs that support working families, including our brothers and sisters in Gulf Coast states.

Cote d’Ivoire, once a bastion of stability in West Africa, has been split into a government-controlled south and a rebel-held north since a failed coup in 2002...In this tense climate, HRW reports that recruiters from both sides of the border are offering money, food and clothing to Liberians willing to fight alongside government forces in Cote d’Ivoire.

According to The Independent, a British newspaper, a survey carried out in Iraq in August showed that 82 percent of Iraqis said they are "strongly opposed" to the US-led coalition troops in their country, while less than 1 percent said the US troops are responsible for an improvement in security.

During a TV appearance on Thursday, the Cuban President explained that the island's Foreign Ministry sent the US Interests Section in Havana a note explaining that Cuba had not requested international assistance...Cuba does not oppose the visit by three US experts in order to learn of their criteria and discuss the issues related to the storm

Obviously, if this really were an age of terror, an age in which we were all terrorized, there would be no writing. You can't write if you're terrorized. I mean, you can, but your writing will have all the clarity of a campaign speech by John Kerry, or all the relevance of the election-year literature produced by the AFL-CIO, which refused to acknowledge that there was a war in Iraq.

In a statment released this week, National Organization for Women (NOW) President Kim Gandy called on Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to remain at her post.

On November 2nd, one year after an election that saw more 'irregularities' than any in recent history, I will be leading a march to the streets to drive out the Bush regime!

I hereby resign my position as a silent accomplice to your perpetration of and involvement in bullying, rape, and murder. I will no longer sit dumbly by while you, purporting to be my government, fabricate and manipulate evidence in order to engage in illegal wars of aggression.

Throw a few indictments at the ruling party and watch how quickly things change. This week has seen important back-pedaling by the Republican Party and the Bush administration.On Tuesday, Congress cut funding for new nuclear weapons, the so-called bunker-buster, from the federal budget

Ed Roybal, first 20th Century Mexican American elected to the Los Angeles City Council (1949-1963) and to the House of Representatives (1963-1992) was a progressive Latino politician long before there was something called a Chicano movement.

The World Federation of Trade Unions strongly condemns the recent heightened efforts to aggravate tensions, chaos and conflicts in the Arab region and the attempts to disregard the tragic events resulting from the occupation of Iraq, Palestine and other Arab lands.

Routine politics—that is, voting and elections, petitions, lobbying, and interest group activity—is designed for stability. Routine politics can only accomplish minor, incremental change, at best. Never will it transform the fundamental structures of society; it never has.

The revolutionary process which started in Venezuela following the election of President Hugo Chávez in 1998 has had a profound impact on the labor front. For 40 years the historically dominant Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) had an undemocratic structure and union bureaucrats collaborated with management to quash the struggles of rank-and-file workers.

The prosecutor investigating the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson has secured at least one indictment in the case from a majority of the 23 grand jurors, lawyers and intelligence officials close to the case said Wednesday.

The special prosecutor investigating the outing of a covert CIA agent expanded his probe last year to include intelligence information used by the Bush administration claiming that Iraq tried to purchase yellow-cake uranium from Niger.

The Bush administration has expanded its order to cut veterans’ health care benefits. Meanwhile, a Pentagon survey indicates that tens of thousands of returning war vets are reporting high rates of mental trauma and physical ailments.

The Howard Government has included in its latest “anti-terrorist” legislation horrific provisions that allows police to “shoot to kill” anyone they claim to be involved in terrorist activities... Anti-war demonstrations, for example, could easily be deemed to be violent if they involved a physical attack by pro-government counter-demonstrators.

SEVERAL decades ago, Teresa Hayter wrote a book called Aid as Imperialism, which outlined how foreign aid was used by rich countries to further the interests of big businesses based in their own countries, and served to destroy productive capacities in the recipient countries.

SCOTT Ritter, a top arms inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998, is that rare creature - a gung-ho former US marine bitterly opposed to the official lies and hidden agendas of the US establishment.

The U.S. response to the September 11th terrorist attacks was a retaliatory war against Afghanistan to overturn the Taliban regime. However, Osama bin Laden, who supposedly mastermined the terrorist attacks, has not been captured yet.