What did Marx mean by calling religion an opiate? Being a materialist, Marx, of course, holds to the view that religion is ultimately man made and not something supermaterial or supernatural in origin. “Man makes religion,” he says.

Bush's Health Savings Accounts will help the wealthy protect their assets, and actually increase the ranks of the uninsured.

Against Gravity, Iranian writer Farnoosh Moshiri’s latest stirring novel, is set mainly in Houston, Texas in the 1980s.

There is nothing remotely developmental about the WTO. "Activists around the world have vowed to continue fighting the human suffering and environmental destruction being perpetuated by the WTO in 2006."

"I was told I was no longer eligible for my monthly money, there was no explanation, no apology. There are thousands like me, how do we survive now?"

Some European countries have been the focus of Muslim rage after caricatures showing the prophet Muhammad wearing a turban resembling a bomb were published in a Danish newspaper.

The survey was undertaken after a noticeable increase in the number of children seeking psychological counselling, many of whom were found to have learning difficulties.“The only things they have on their minds are guns, bullets, death and a fear of the US occupation.”

On Friday, February 3rd, the Twin Cities Hands Off Venezuela Campaign presented Calle y Media's film "Venezuela Bolivariana" at the Resource Center of the Americas (www.americas.org)... upcoming National Venezuela Solidarity Conference to be held March 4-6 in Washington, DC.

More than 54 thousand Palestinians suffer from the problem of not having an identity card, either by not being registered with the Israeli authorities at birth, or by having foreign nationalities.

A second round[of elections] is set for Feb 19 but Preval says the new president will be chosen on Feb 7, first elections past the 2004 coup against President Jean Betrand Aristide, now exiled in South Africa.

We consider that the timing of this Conference is inappropriate, for Sudan is neither prepared nor qualified to lead the Conference and is incapable of contributing the solutions for the continent's problems.

Companies spend 50 times more than working people on lobbying and their Political Action Committees spend 24 times more than labor unions on political campaigns.

President Castro announced that Venezuela and Cuba are ready to help Bolivian President Evo Morales in a national effort to teach people how to read and write, and noted that the literacy campaign in Bolivia will be simultaneously conducted in the Spanish, Aymara and Quechua languages.

I heard him tell me the military had become political, something he had never seen happen before, and that those in charge were more concerned with themselves and profiting from this war than with the soldiers whose lives they were entrusted with.

Vernon Evans faces execution on the week of February 6th. He has exhausted every appeal and it appears that his lawyers will not be able to win relief in the courts.

Calling for opposition to the continued stationing of U.S. forces in Sagamihara and Zama cities in Kanagawa Prefecture about 1,200 citizens took part in a rally in Sagamihara City on January 29.

A continent that was more than self-sufficient in food at independence 50 years ago is now a massive food importer