How do we gauge social system failure? Sociologists understand that an ideal social system with its network of institutions, held together by a culture, functions to fulfill needs of a society. When it fails to meet those basic needs, we can conclude that it has failed or become dysfunctional.

"The killing of civilians, raping of women and girls and pillaging of entire villages continued in Darfur," [the UN report] said. "As a result of the fighting, Darfur’s civilian population suffered from indiscriminate attacks, loss of property, and massive displacement."

The international community has spoken: it opposes a unilateral withdrawal from the Occupied Territories. But it opposes a unilateral withdrawal much like I oppose Britney Spears having more children—it is not actually going to do a damn thing about it.

“Mr. Harper and the Conservative Party want to drag our country into even closer collusion with U.S. imperialism’s drive for economic and strategic domination around the world, under the hypocritical pretext of ‘fighting terrorism.’ "

The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), an organization committed to achieving a just and peaceful world community with full dignity and freedom for every human being, stands in solidarity with the millions who have rallied, boycotted, and marched during recent months in defense of basic human rights for undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Big Brother is watching you. At least when you’re on the phone -- he knows what numbers you’ve called, how many times and for how long, what numbers people at those numbers have called, and so on.

Iraq is a disaster and the treasury is hemorrhaging red ink to pay for it. Gas prices are soaring. Osama taunts us on videotape. Iran's going nuclear. Seven in 10 think the country's heading in the wrong direction. What do you do when you're in power and there's an election just around the corner? You trot out some old diversionary scapegoats once again.

Just as the Bush administration’s market liberalization drive seemed to have been reaching its apogee, serious setbacks were registered as the utility of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and various bilateral FTA’s began to be successfully challenged.

THE story of subversion of the UNCTAD itself by GATT that later morphed into WTO, enveloping within itself subjects like investments, intellectual property rights and a plethora of non-trade issues, is the story of continuing poverty of nations and backwardness of their development.

"We're old men. We probably all have life insurance," jokes Thom Yorke on the opening night of Radiohead's British tour, looking really rather pleased with himself.

The General Secretary of the CC of AKEL Demetris Christofias delivered his speech outside the building of the Central Committee of the Party where the members, voters and supporters of the Party had gathered for the announcement of the results of the Parliamentary Elections.

The Australian Government seems to have lost out, at least for the time being, in its attempts to destablilise East Timor and impose a government more to the liking of Howard, Downer and their allies.

Love your neighbor as yourself sums up all the commandments...Our neighbors are everywhere. They are in Iraq, they are in Iran, they are in Israel, they are in Palestine, they are in Mexico, they are in our border towns and in our work places.

People across the country can not even imagine a world without war, poverty or nuclear weapons. But that is our job. We are like our ancestors, the Abolitionists, who came along and announced an astonishing, breathtaking new vision, a world without slavery, the equality of everyone on earth.

The SACP is of the strong view that we must disrupt this emerging alliance between some of our leading political cadres and emerging capitalist interests in order to defend the values and the objectives of the national democratic revolution.

The plaintiffs who won this victorious ruling include Hibakusha who were denied government recognition as having A-bomb radiation-related illnesses on the grounds that their exposure to radiation was 3.3 kilometers away from ground zero

The US military doesn’t allow the compilation and publication of Iraqi casualties, and it is very difficult to know how bloody the occupation of Iraq has resulted. The only indication of the intensity of the conflict are the military fatalities.

The Da Vinci Code has been condemned by a number of religious leaders including leading figures in the Catholic Church, and, ironically, no less a personage than ultra-right religious TV personality Jerry Falwell.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared on Tuesday that Venezuela would consider putting the sale of its oil in Euros.  His comments come after Iran had announced that it too is contemplating switching to the European currency.

The Abuja Agreement reached between the government of the Sudan and the Sudan National Liberation Movement, Arkowi, was disappointing for the Sudanese people and for the people of Darfur, who made great sacrifices in order to attain a comprehensive agreement that meets their demands for a just division of wealth and power.