Carolyn Clemmons made 81 years old today, but instead of celebrating, she has been having trouble eating and sleeping at night, due to Atlanta Housing Authority’s mass eviction policies.

A number of major pharmaceutical corporations and biotech firms are concealing the nature of the biological warfare research work they are doing for the U.S. government.

Graduating with a college degree is more than ever a necessity today. Students and their families are doing whatever it takes to pay for higher education, including taking on excessive amounts of debt.

Kucinich opened with the need to cut off the money. He proposed simply not offering any more bills to fund the war. Kucinich won huge applause as he shouted about the troops coming home, the bases being closed, the oil being left to the Iraqi people.

The Atlanta City Council voted unanimously Monday to file an ordinance creating free speech zones, essentially killing the legislation.

The Iraqi government isn't meeting their benchmarks (conditional demands that Iraq must meet in order to receive US funds to repair their US battered land) and President Bush isn't getting good response from the appellate bench in Richmond, VA either.

The Republican presidential candidates are a pretty incoherent, hateful, confused, and sometimes paranoid bunch of nincompoops. But they have made one thing clear: vote for them and the war in Iraq will go on and on and on.

On June 21, 2007 the New York State legislative session is expected to end without any reform of the Rockefeller Drug Laws. To most people it will not mean much. But to Veronica Flournoy it will.

Catching everyone by surprise, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on June 8 that sections of Bill 29, the Health and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act passed by the Campbell Liberal government in 2002, violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

When I resorted to Mark Twain’s writings I attempted to escape, at least temporarily from my often distressing readings on war, politics and terror. But his “The Mysterious Stranger”, although published 1916, still left me with an eerie feel.

Albania was really the only place where Bush got any affection; to such an extent that the reception in Bulgaria where several thousand people awaited him waving little American flags seemed cool to him.

The Supreme Court just ruled 9-0 this week that home health care workers aren't entitled to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, a significant blow to low wage workers generally.

Bush doesn't want you to think about the war. He'd rather you think about immigration or Paris Hilton. FOX News is helping him out by refusing to report much about Iraq, despite Bush's claimed that it is the main front of the central struggle of the 21st century.

Condoleezza Rice is refusing to comply with a subpoena to appear before Congress. The Justice Department is refusing to produce subpoenaed documents. Harriet Miers and Sara Taylor will almost certainly refuse to comply with subpoenas to appear.

Filmmaker Michael Moore came to the California state capitol in Sacramento to show a sneak preview of his film Sicko, and advocate for single payer health care reform.

"More and more Members of Congress are becoming aware of the concerns of the American people to make sure the Constitution is protected," US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH).

As the Bush administration continues to push its alternative fuels agenda, it has become increasingly evident that corn-based ethanol could be as much the global villain as a boon to society.

MARTA’s Board of Directors voted Monday to preserve the Paratransit Fare Structure for fiscal year 2008, ending a standoff between the Board and the disabled community over a proposed alteration to the Paratransit Fare Structure.

"Nothing personal sir, but your packages are not allowed on passenger airlines," said a United Parcel Service customer service agent, sitting in an American call centre. She was explaining to me that my package could not be delivered on an "early a.m." basis from Toronto to Peterborough.

"Just because we volunteered, doesn't mean we volunteered to throw our lives away for nothing. You can only push human beings so far," Marc Train, 19, a soldier from America's heartland, stationed most recently in Fort Stewart, Georgia, says.