The Georgian military invasion of South Ossetia, a de facto autonomous region with its own government since the early 1990s, followed by the swift Russian counter-attack which drove out the Georgian forces, has provoked a lot of talk in the media but little clarity.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted July 29, 2008, to approve a non-binding resolution that represents a formal government apology to African Americans for the practice of slavery and the Jim Crow laws that fostered defacto segregation.

A new flyer posted at GutCheck reminds us of the various points of view on the Iraq war John McCain has held over the past few years.

I recently showed parts of Eugene Jarecki’s brilliant documentary, Why We Fight, in my summer class on the history of imperialism. The documentary is a critique of US foreign policy and the Military Industrial Complex it serves.

The American nation has an excellent opportunity to change the nature of politics in our country this year. We have a real chance to build lasting alliances that will re-define the political landscape at every level of government and permit us to take back our government by the average citizen.

A 7/31/08 report by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) shows even the most token coverage of the impeachment hearings as receiving no respect: “CNN's Election Center program devoted a July 25 report to mocking a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee investigating White House abuses of power....

Daily blogs at the AFL-CIO's site that expose McCain's plan to continue George W. Bush's policies on outsourcing jobs, an unending occupation of Iraq, privatizing Social Security, taxing health care benefits, and more oil drilling combine with the McCain Revealed campaign and the Meet Barack Obama to help educate union members and their families on the issues.

Energy policy and high gas prices has dominated the public debate over the past few weeks as both presidential candidates have tussled back and forth on the issue.

Barbara Lee, a congresswoman from Oakland, California, noted that PEPFAR has brought a sense of urgency to HIV programs in other countries that is lacking in the US. "Where is our PEPFAR?" she asked.

Commemorations of the August 1945 nuclear bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are occasions when the demand is raised for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. Hiroshima is a stark reminder of the devastation that weapons of mass destruction cause and a time to demand an end to the terror of nuclear annihilation.

Since the first detainees were transferred there from Afghanistan on January 11, 2002, Guantanamo Bay has become the most notorious prison on earth.

After initially approving an Obama campaign advertisement for use at Florida gasoline stations on Gas Station TV, a network whose self-described mission is to "reach captive audiences via video at the gas station pump with targeted advertising," the advertising driven video service refused to show the ad.

Union activists affiliated with the WakeUpWalMart.com campaign circulated a petition this week via e-mail demanding the Federal Election Commission investigate whether Wal-Mart has violated federal election laws.

Critics of US politics often cite low voter participation as a sign of political backwardness, massive alienation from the process, and the lack of an appeal by the major party platforms to ordinary working Americans. Barack Obama wants to change all that.

Corporate media have been absurdly receptive to the McCain campaign's charge that Barack Obama "played the race card" by predicting that his opponents in the presidential race would try to use his race against him.

he World Federation of Trade Unions strongly condemns the dismissal of 22,000 part-time public employees in California and the cuts in the wages of most of the state’s 200,000 employees.

Yesterday morning, following a massive protest in Washington, D.C., George Bush resigned from his post as President of the United States of America. Though several major media outlets have claimed the resignation was a response to the public’s call for his resignation...

The Communist Party's program, "Election 2008: Help Make History," addresses the urgent situation and the tremendous opportunity to defeat the ultra-right in this election and create the conditions to turn the country around.

Michelle Obama has been the target of more scrutiny than even Hillary Clinton in the 1990s, suggests a soon-to-be published profile of the wife of the Democratic nominee by Ebony magazine.

Global warming is a huge social problem that requires many different levels of action. Right-wing ideologues long ago convinced themselves that global warming isn't real.