Fox’s free-fall lack of statesmanship regarding the election has truly been his greatest disservice to Mexico after a tenure marked by embarrassing indecision, a weak-willed and limited vision, and a Forrest Gump-like capacity to deal with complexity.

Dick DeVos, billionaire co-owner of Amway, will likely win the Republican Party primary for the governor’s race in Michigan. He sure has paid enough for it.

The Tudeh Party of Iran warns against the rising tensions and the issue of Security Council resolution against Iran. We believe the world public opinion in its vast majority, and definitively, are against a new war and military intervention in the internal affairs of Iran.

In the face of mounting international isolation, eroding popular support and growing discontent even within the U.S. political and corporate elites, the Bush Administration has put the nation and the world on a collision course with Iran.

From here we will express to Bolivia and the whole world that [this is] the struggle of our people, of the indigenous peoples historically on this land, the struggle of our ancestors such as Tupac Katari, Tupac Amaru and Bartolina Sisa and so many other leaders. 

Charlie Hardy is a former US Catholic priest who spent eight years living among the poor of Caracas in a house of compressed cardboard without sanitation during the dying days of Venezuela’s ancien regime that were triggered by the Caracazo or social explosion of February 27th 1989 following a hike in the price of petrol.

Rocketing oil prices have made Cuba search for less polluting energy sources as biofuels. It has become ever more urgent the need to stop irrational hydrocarbon consumption, led by the United States, the greatest polluter worldwide..

The long arm of Wal-Mart has reached Africa and threatens union representation in a garment supplier in Ghana...The company is currently refusing to sign the required form that would permit formal certification of the union in the factory.

Talks between a Security Council delegation and Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir...failed to reach a consensus on the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force. It was the first time the Council had come to the Sudanese capital for face-to-face meetings with Sudanese authorities.

Nominal leader of the Democrats in Congress Nancy Pelosi, following talking points produced by the Republican National Committee, recently told her fellow Dems to keep impeachment off the table.

Recently, the Aljazeera online English service posed a seemingly simple question: "Should (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert talk with Hamas?"

The ICP sees its continuing role as combating the damage caused by sectarianism and terrorism, consolidating national unity and democratic forces, strengthening the integrity of the Iraqi national security forces and preparing the way for the end of the occupation.

Three years ago, I wrote a piece talking about attempts to oust Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri in East Timor, then a new struggling independent nation.

Universal government-run health care – specifically the program built on Medicare and advocated by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) – was one key cause that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union convention endorsed

In order to distract voters from the burning issues like ballooning gas prices, the degenerating situation in Iraq, Republican corruption in Congress, a slowing economy, and declining US credibility around the world, Bush and congressional Republicans have announced their support for extremist policies, say civil rights activists.

The delegation will also seek the support of the Sudanese government to allow a UN force to take over the peacekeeping mission from 7,000 underfunded African Union (AU) troops.

Have you ever heard someone try to argue that the Iraq War was a mistake but that now the proper course is to continue the mistake a bit longer or to carefully end it in a long and complicated way that could take months or years?

United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) has organized a coalition of organizations, all of which are asking their members to phone their U.S. Representatives on Wednesday, June 7, to urge them to sign a Discharge Petition that would force, for the first time, a full and open debate on Iraq.

In this ambitious book, Karen Armstrong attempts to explain the origins and goals of the major fundamentalist movements in Judaism, Christianity and Islam...Her explanations are almost uniformly conditioned by idealist fantasies on the nature of religion...

A popular uprising took place in Shanir Akhra, a suburb of Dhaka. Thousands of people came out on the street demanding adequate supply of water and electricity.