Military interrogators posing as “lawyers” are attempting to trick Guantanamo prisoners into providing them with information, “The Catholic Worker” (TCW) reports.

Rep. John Conyers has probably done more than anyone in Congress to expose the depths of the constitutional crisis in our country and to fight to protect and restore civil rights and liberties. He is a champion of the broad people’s alliance to defeat the ultra-right.

The US and fellow imperialist powers Britain, France and Germany are engaged in a far reaching and deadly serious campaign to carve up and take over the energy resources of the entire world.

The US House Financial Services Committee approved on July 31, 2007, HR 2895, the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2007, with broad bipartisan support.

TIAA-CREF's $9 billion CREF Social Choice Account, the nation's largest socially-screened fund for individual investors, will not allow any investments in either The Coca-Cola Company or its two largest U.S. bottlers, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

A sheriff came to let Tameka “Cookie” Brewer know that she and her daughter and their belongings need to be out of their home by this Friday, August 17, 2007.

As promised, US Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) and US Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) have introduced matching censure resolutions this week in the Senate and House, respectively, concerning misconduct leading up to and during the US invasion of Iraq, as well as disregard for the rule of law.

The press this week reported that the U.S. stock market decline related to the unstable nature of the U.S. mortgage industry (or the home mortgage department of U.S. finance capital) is spreading to other stock markets.

Thursday night, six of the eight Democratic presidential candidates participated in a forum sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and MTV to talk about their views on LGBT issues. The forum was broadcast live via the Web at visiblevote08.com.

In the past two years, America has experienced two tragic and shocking disasters—the toppling of the levees in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and last week's collapse of the I‑35W bridge in Minneapolis.

am an American. I used to be a proud one. This was before a realization that hit me hard concerning the casualties of a dirty war. I am not talking about the war in Iraq. I am talking about the other war – the war on drugs.

In this, the fourteenth year of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it is of the utmost importance—in terms of its continued application in the future—to look back and examine the economic impact of free trade on the U.S. and Mexico over the last decade and a half.

On July 25th the International Herald Tribune ran a piece titled; "Teens march across America in lonely opposition to war."

Concerned activists held a press conference at the State Capitol, Tuesday, August 07, 2007, to update the public on developments in the Troy Davis death row case, and to present witnesses regarding overall problems with the death penalty in this country.

The press is running with a story in which a few Democratic presidential hopefuls have criticized Senator Obama’s comments that he would not use nuclear weapons against Al Qaeda in Pakistan.

Fifty two years ago today, on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing more than 200,000 people, mostly civilians.

Sen. Barack Obama's recent assertion that under his administration if "actionable intelligence" became available regarding the location of terrorist organizations in Afghanistan and Pakistan he would use conventional rather than nuclear weapons to destroy those targets fits into his larger foreign policy aims of "de-emphasizing the role of nuclear weapons."

CIA interrogation techniques approved by President Bush are described in a confidential Red Cross report as “tantamount to torture,” according to a report in “The New Yorker” magazine.

Twenty-four people met in Chicago's City Hall August 2 to initiate a call for a three-month-long campaign to stop the war in Iraq, culminating with a Midwest regional mobilization in Chicago Oct 27.

Wilfred Gibson, 42, former owner of a small landscaping company, Gibson Landscape Management, has filed suit against the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) for allegedly discriminating against his company and putting him out of business.