In the wake of the Summit of the Americas in Argentina on Nov. 4-5, relations between Mexico and Venezuela have deteriorated to the point where both countries have withdrawn their ambassadors.

Last week Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brokered a deal between Israelis and Palestinians on the Rafah border crossing which connects the "disengaged" Gaza Strip with the outside world.

News For Working Families:The Bush administration and Republican congressional leaders claim huge cuts in working family programs are needed to reduce the federal deficit and pay for Gulf Coast hurricane recovery. But the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy exceed the spending cuts and add to the federal deficit.

The Bush administration's case for war continues to fall apart. It has taken far too long and at such a great expense in lives and resources, but more revelations in the Los Angeles Times show that the administration manipulated intelligence in order to strong arm Congress and confuse the public into supporting its war.

In the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S government’s real efforts to fight terrorism are not evident. The fierce rhetoric and the actions carried out by the White House show a growing divergence. The cynical behavior, typical of Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Negroponte and Rove, dangerously continues to influence high ranking military discourse.

Africa Action today called for a Chapter 7 United Nations (UN) mandate to be extended to the African Union (AU) force in Darfur, Sudan. As new reports from the media and from the UN confirm a sharp increase in violence in Darfur in recent weeks.

The current spat between Venezuela and Mexico will soon pass, yet it should be seen as far more than a trivial matter, springing as it does from deep roots in the collective psyche of each country.

In an effort to compensate their losses, each family received an initial amount of $100, with monthly stipends planned for residents and extra reparations for those whose properties were totally destroyed...Others, however, complained that the amount was insufficient, especially for those with large families.

Morgan's book has a special focus on the contributions of "social realist" writers, poets, and artists who were African American. These artists and their work were closely connected to the social conditions in which they lived... For this reason, art for them could not simply be a passive receptacle of idealized beauty, but needed to be an active medium through which the artists could help transform the world.

During the middle of the day on Friday, I spent an hour or two on a conference call with activists and congressional staffers discussing next steps to end the war.  We planned, among other things, to organize support for Congressman John Murtha's bill, H.J.Res. 73, which he introduced on Friday.

As I watched a video of the ceremony posted on the White House website, it was heartbreaking to see Bush, a chicken-hearted man of empire, bathe himself in Ali's glow and rhapsodize about "peace." About the only thing Bush and Ali have in common is that they both moved mountains to stay out of Vietnam.

I am ashamed to say I know almost nothing about the four victims. But I do know a lot about Williams. Not about the Crips thug who allegedly committed those 1979 murders, but about the man so many of us now admire and love -- the man who speaks out against gangs and guns, the author whose life work has moved us to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Firestone, which has operated a rubber plantation in Liberia since 1926, relies on a poverty stricken and often illiterate work force to tap tons of raw latex from rubber trees using primitive tools and methods that expose them to dangerous pesticides and fertilizers, the group said.

The Republicans in this House have done a heinous thing: they have insulted one of the deans of this House in an unthinkable and unconscionable way. They took his words and contorted them; they took his heartfelt sentiments and spun them. They took his resolution and deformed it: in a cheap effort to silence dissent in the House of Representatives.

"I remember very clearly my son’s last words before he went back after his two weeks’ vacation. ’I don’t know who my enemy is,’ he said. ’It’s a worthless, senseless war, a war of religion. We’ll never win it.’ He wasn’t killed. He was murdered. He was murdered by the US administration..." Sue Niederer( lost son Feb.3)

Bush administration policies that cut education and basic anti-poverty programs in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy have exacerbated sharp differences in job opportunities for white and black workers, according to a new report by the Labor Research Association