According to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition, the definition of a civil war is a "war between political factions or regions within the same country." That is exactly what is going on in Iraq, not a global war on terrorism, as the President continues to portray it.

Prefectural Assembly members group, and the JCP Yokosuka City Assembly members group jointly visited the U.S. Navy Yokosuka Base to protest against the murder. They demanded that the commander of the U.S. Navy in Japan and the Kitty Hawk's captain immediately hand over the suspect to the Japanese authorities.

In passing the Fair Share Health Care bill, Maryland became the first state to require its largest employers to spend 8 percent of their payroll on health care for their workers. Of the four employers in the state with more than 10,000 workers, only Wal-Mart does not meet the 8 percent threshold for employee health care.

The peace movement in the U.S. and globally has helped create the growing public consensus and rising demands to end the war and bring home the troops. The Bush administration is responding with escalating claims of Potemkin-style troop withdrawals.

According to Thomas Friedman, the "world is flat" or fast becoming flat as information technology transforms world capitalism, giving everyone a chance to share in the enormous global pie. Together with this hopeful world scene, Friedman's new book, The World is Flat (2005), voices the typical alarmism that defines the mindset of modern capitalists.

Jan 12, 2006.- Today it was announced that the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez continued its program to provide relief for low income U.S. residents by delivering cheaper oil products.

There is no connection between tax cuts for the rich and job creation, says a recently published study by United for a Fair Economy. In fact, slow job growth, declining wages and benefits, accompanied by widening income and employment inequality by race and ethnicity is the hallmark of Bushonomics.

Mirta Rodriguez, mother of Antonio Guerrero, noted that despite the Atlanta Court of Appeals decision last August that annulled the sentences against the Cuban Five, they still remain behind bars after more than seven long years.The prosecution requested the full court of appeals reconsider their decision.

12 December 2004: Hundreds of Egyptians demonstrated in front of the Supreme Court in Cairo to protest President Mubarak’s lengthy tenure. This was Egypt's first major public demonstration to call for an end to Mubarak's 24-year rule.

David Sirota recently documented instances of what he called Rectal Journalism. He described this sort of reporting as "based on reporters and pundits simply pulling stuff right out of their ass."

As Bolivia’s president-elect Evo Morales returns from a global tour where he hobnobbed with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, and Ollanta Humala gains momentum in Peru, it appears as though the Latin American election cycle is being marked by a pronounced turn leftwards of uncertain importance.

A woman U.S. sailor driving a vehicle on December 22, 2005 hit three elementary school boys (3rd graders) at an intersection in Hachioji City, Tokyo, and drove away. She was immediately arrested by the Hachioji Police on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in injury and violating the Road Traffic Law, but was released after the U.S. Atsugi Naval Air Station command sent a certificate stating that she had been "on duty."

This is a handbook for on the job activists, for those who find themselves living under a virtual dictatorship when they go to work. Slaughter quotes Dan La Botz, "when we get to work, we lose our rights. The boss takes over, a little dictator in the banana republic that is our home away from home." "Banana republic" may be an objectionable term, but the point is well made.

When "Casino Jack" Abramoff pled guilty earlier this month to several counts of wire fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials, there was a palpable rise in blood pressure among Republican members of Congress who can expect close scrutiny from federal law enforcement officials as a result.

The poor had been abandoned by society and its institutions, and sometimes by their well-off brothers and sisters, long before the storm. We are immediately confronted with another unsavory truth: it is the exposure of the extremes, not their existence, that stumps our national sense of decency.

March 19th will mark the third anniversary of a war that never should have happened -- a war based on lies that continues to devastate the lives of thousands, both in Iraq and the United States.

The endless legal wrangling between Canadian and U.S. authorities over imports of softwood lumber to this country continues this year, with no end in sight.

A little over a year ago, a group of Johns Hopkins researchers reported that about 100,000 Iraqi civilians had died as a result of the Iraq war during its first 14 months, with about 60,000 of the deaths directly attributable to military violence by the U.S. and its allies.

One hundred and sixty three countries offer some form of paid family leave, including paid childbirth or maternity leave. There is no national law in the U.S. to provide for such priorities... Standing in the way of minimum justice for workers are the big corporate lobbies, their trade associations in Washington, DC and their political slush funds for the politicians.

Angolan oil production is currently running at 1.3 million barrels a day...However, little of the economic activity generated by the oil industry is experienced by ordinary citizens. "Nearly all of Angola's production is offshore and for every billion invested in the industry, only $100,000 is spent onshore"