It is always good to know as a citizen that your leaders think everything is under control, for this reason I can only begin to imagine the relief people in the United States must feel when President Bush publicly acknowledges; "I believe that our economy has got the fundamentals in place.”

Does former President Bill Clinton want to become a drug policy reform advocate? On its face, it would seem that way following President Clinton's keynote speech at the University of Pennsylvania last week commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Kerner Commission report that addressed the causes of racial disturbances in the 1960s.

(APN) ATLANTA – Even though the transfer of power between the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority (FDHA) and the new Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation (GMHC) may appear to be a done deal, members of the Grady Coalition say they are going to keep fighting for Grady Hospital, its patients, and its workers.

In his most recent op-ed in Solidarity magazine titled "It's time for a change," United Autoworkers (UAW) President Ron Gettelfinger fired both rhetorical barrels at George W. Bush and John McCain.

A Feb. 28 endorsement by right-wing religious television personality John Hagee has earned Republican presidential hopeful John McCain renewed criticism from both the left and right for appearing to embrace the sharply bigoted Hagee has staked out over the years.

DETROIT – South Africa is at a crossroads, said Political Affairs Editor Joe Sims here at the Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery, Mar. 1.

There is an excellent review of John Bolton's new book, "Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad" by Brian Urquhart (a former UN under-secretary general) in the March 6, 2008 issue of The New York Review of Books ("One Angry Man").

My most recent return encountered Canada’s self-appointed guru of militarism, General Rick Hillier, pretty much demanding of Canada’s government that a doubling of forces would be necessary to hold even in Kandahar.

It is an idealized interpretation - favorable to Franklin Delano Roosevelt - of his differences with the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, that are a true view of the contradictions between the decadent British Empire and the rising imperialism of the United States.

ATLANTA – The Bush Administration rolled out a $3.1 trillion budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2009 on February 4, 2008 that calls for increased spending on national defense and foreign aid, while calling for cuts in funding for key domestic priorities.

Sen. John McCain tried to prove his ethical good standing Monday, Feb. 25, by claiming to have acted "exactly" like former Democratic presidential hopefuls Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt.

Honoring the life and contributions of actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson. Robeson stood for peace, equality, and civil rights. He was a champion for workers rights and social justice. Thank you, Paul!

The Democratic National Convention will host 3,515 pledged delegates and 852 unpledged delegates from all over the country in Denver, Colorado, from August 25 through August 28, 2008.

Republican party politicos espouse an unflagging devotion to old-fashioned morality and family values, inveighing heavily against gay marriage, abortion, homosexuality, adultery, feminism, crime, stem-cell research, secularism, and liberalism.

A comienzos de julio de 2007 la Suprema Corte de la nación, en una acción atrevida, contravino a los fundamentos legales de Brown v. the Board of Education. En un fallo de cinco a cuatro, la mayoría republicana en la Corte rechazó planes para la desegregación racial de distritos escolares en Louisville, Kentucky y Seattle, Washington.

The 1980s opened with a huge transformation in American political and social life unseen since the Great Depression. With the election of Reagan there began a shift in ideology and politics to the right and an economic restructuring unparalleled since Franklin Roosevelt.

In early July of 2007 the Supreme Court boldly struck down the legal underpinnings of Brown v. the Board of Education. In a five to four decision, the Republican majority on the court, overturned desegregation plans by school districts in Louisville, Kentucky and Seattle, Washington.

It seems that for the second time in 15 months members of the Buffalo Police department physically assaulted the same man who was beaten in his home and possibly saved from being strangled to death by a Black female officer.

The Fulton County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution Wednesday, February 20, 2008, consenting to the lease and transfer agreement by and between the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority (FDHA) and the Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation.

Calling for a boycott of the three largest multinational oil companies, ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP, Dallas-area "consumers for peace" are planning a public protest against the role of Big Oil in launching the Iraq war this Saturday, Feb. 23 in Dallas, Texas.