Once again Republican congressional leaders are attempting to push through enormous tax cuts for the rich, while leveling social benefits.

For forty-five years and as part of their systematic policy of hostility and aggression, ten successive US Administrations have applied a cruel economic, financial and commercial blockade on Cuba, a blockade that has been intensified under the present Republican Administration of President George W. Bush.

Reports say that the torture aircrafts of the CIA landed the European airports over 300 times. The aircrafts landed most frequently landed Germany and Great Britain, 96 and 80 times respectively.

Dear Mrs. Bush: I am writing to let you know why I am not able to accept your kind invitation to give a presentation at the National Book Festival on September 24, or to attend your dinner at the Library of Congress or the breakfast at the White House.

The "W" Effect, edited by radio personality and author Laura Flanders, is an excellent resource for examining the Bush administration’s record on issues that impact women’s lives, and for that matter are directly linked to all us.

Cultures tend to encourage conformity. They fail to see the growth of society and population health is attained through diversity of mind and body. Family trees with limited branches don’t thrive (see the Hapsburgs). Our daughters must learn to sculpt their minds and appreciate their bodies.

Exactly fifty years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ascended the pulpit of the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama to preach for the first time about nonviolent protest. Stop riding the buses, he urged, start marching for freedom, and don’t stop until every American has full equal rights.

It is the sixty-fourth anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack and some scholars are trying to revive the old rightwing "isolationist" arguments that the Roosevelt administration knew about the attacks and let them happen to get the U.S. into the war.

As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal -- and one in which it succeeded -- as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids.

First, as regards the aim of the war...Saudi Arabia, with the holiest Muslim sites, had become a problematic host country to American armed forces. Iraq, with a US friendly government, could become a good alternative host to an American military presence in the area.

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who will be Africa’s first female president when she takes office in Liberia next month, on Monday promised no rapist would go unpunished during her tenure.“Nobody will abuse our girls and women and get away with it; any law on rape especially the rape bill just passed into law will be totally implemented under our government,”

The Cuban leader made the remarks [on] the 6th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Ideas, borne amid a massive popular demand for the return of boy Elian Gonzalez, kidnapped by the anti-Cuban Miami mafia.

Two million Cuban workers received good news Wednesday morning, as the Cuban government announced that it would be increasing salaries, social security pensions and social assistance across the board.

The pension crisis that began in the steel industry and swept through the airlines and auto industries is now moving on to the public sector. Defined benefit pension plans are in jeopardy as state and local governments move to end these plans and shift to 401(k)-type plans for public employees.

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland visited Zimbabweans affected by the government's controversial clean-up campaign, Operation Murambatsvina, in the capital, Harare, on Monday...The operation has left more than 700,000 people homeless or without a livelihood after kicking off in mid-May.

On Tuesday in New York, Jonathan Tasini will announce the launch of his campaign for United States Senate, challenging Hilary Clinton in the Democratic primary. 

This is a book[Blueprint] dedicated to glorifying the Pentagon and the waging of war, especially in the Third World. This war-mongering cheerleader for crimes against humanity is quoted as follows with respect to the military forces of US imperialism-- they constitute “a force for global good that has no equal.”

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon—the little teapot, short and stout—is making a comeback. He ditched the outdated threads of his radical Likud to prance in the open fields of peace with favorite "doves" like Shimon Peres.