Over sixty years after World War II has ended, the United States has once again undertaken a global endeavor. This time, to eradicate fanatical Islamic terrorists who are bent on destroying freedom and democracy.

In nine days, on July 17, 2007, Georgia may execute an innocent man, after both State and Federal Courts refused to hear the recanted testimony of 7 out of 9 witnesses in his case,.

Several of the nation's largest civil rights organizations representing communities of color unveiled a strategic plan for high school reform to a packed room on Capitol Hill.

The Pentagon is intentionally underreporting US casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a recent report by veterans' advocacy group Veterans for Common Sense.

For many years now, the right wing in the US has used the term "politically correct" to caricature those who try to remove racist, sexist, militarist and other similarly motivated forms of speech from popular usage.

Together with our allies at dozens of Pride events across Canada this summer, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans, two-spirited persons, and queer and questioning youth are celebrating important struggles to achieve equality and social justice.

It was announced that the CIA would be declassifying hundreds of pages on illegal actions that included plans to eliminate the leaders of foreign governments. Suddenly the publication is halted and it is delayed one day. No coherent explanation was given. Perhaps someone in the White House looked over the material.

Growing public opposition to Bush's Iraq war policies pushed a handful of Republican Senators this past week to express disapproval of Bush's war in Iraq.

A former member of U.S. military intelligence has decided to reveal what she knows about warrantless spying on Americans and about the fixing of intelligence in the leadup to the invasion of Iraq.

US Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA-04) has joined ten other Members of Congress in supporting H Res 333, a bill to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.

This year as I prepare my income tax return, I am going to take a cue from George W. Bush. After dotting the i's and crossing the t's, and rolling my eyes at the anemic refund coming to me, I'm going to attach a "signing statement".

Before the United States of America even existed, the people living in this land were oppressed by the rule of a dictator across an ocean who cared not a whit about their desires or opinions.

Taking advantage of another anniversary of the birth of George Washington, president George W. Bush used the occasion to compare the American Revolution of the 18th century with the war in Iraq.

The Bush administration and its appointees and Congress are in conflict, in a struggle for power. Although personality and partisanship are important elements of this power struggle, viewing this situation as an internal conflict in the US ruling class is also helpful in clearing up some of the muddiness.

Thousands of progressive activists from around the US and the World marched through Downtown Atlanta on the first day of the US Social Forum.

Two Hawaiian land rights activists visited Sydney in June and spoke to The Guardian about their struggles against US militarization of Hawaii and their support for protests against the Talisman Sabre war games in Shoalwater Bay, Queensland.

The US Central Intelligence Agency is preparing to release a set of documents compiled more than 30 years ago detailing the agency’s involvement over the previous quarter century in crimes both at home and abroad.

More than 180,000 veterans of the "global war on terror," which includes the invasion of Afghanistan and the oil war in Iraq, have filed for disability benefits according to Veterans Affairs documents.

The conviction of vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby for perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements in connection with the exposure of Valerie Plame’s employment with the Central Intelligence Agency has cast a harsh light on the inner workings of a White House.

The 2006 Centennial marking the arrival of Filipinos to the United States as laborers on Hawaiian sugar plantations serves as the backdrop for a series of four essays by E. San Juan Jr. investigating both the past and present of Filipino migration to the metropolis.