In its fourth year, the annual Take Back America conference opened with 2,000 attendees... [including] representatives from progressive, liberal and labor movements

These 2500 men and women, most of them just entering adulthood, died not defending America, but in a war designed to bolster the political prospects and political power of the president.

The UN children’s agency UNICEF said in a 2006 report that it was impossible to determine exactly how many minors were living alone across the globe.

FGM involves the cutting and/or removal of the clitoris and other vaginal tissue, often under unsanitary conditions, from the genitals of girls and women. It is practised in at least 28 countries globally.

Hamas movement spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri expressed his reservation over the European decision, refusing any conditioned assistance and stressing that such assistance should pass through the government.

In his introduction, John explains how the imperial notion of "colonial assumptions have not changed," and to sustain them the great majority of people everywhere "remain invisible and expendable."

Apparently the White House is so worried about the reliability of the Iraqi government, from its chief of state on down, that it didn't dare to inform a single soul in that puppet regime in Baghdad...

DeVos has spent millions on slick TV ads describing himself has a "job-maker." He claims he will bring jobs to the state, but he doesn’t say how. And his record shows something altogether different.

The Republican resolution falsely equates the quagmire in Iraq with the greater "war on terrorism." It fails to say that the U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq are the primary reasons the country has become a breeding ground for terrorism.

The ruling party and those churches perceived as pro-Mugabe seized the initiative by cancelling the annual day of prayer and renaming it the Zimbabwe National Day of Prayer

As part of the homage, Morales will inaugurate a medical center donated by Cuba and head the graduation of a group of Bolivians who learned how to read and write through the Cuban campaign "Yes, I Can Do It."

On Tuesday, June 13, Israeli missile fire killed seven Palestinian civilians in Gaza City. Among the dead were two children. The strike follows an Israeli assault on a Gaza beach late last week which claimed the lives of seven family members—including five children.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the primary federal agency for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace, is facing a $4.2 million budget cut, another blow to workers from the Bush administration.

When the coup attempt by some dissident military and police forces failed the Australian Government sent in a powerful contingent of military forces to help create a situation in which regime change could be brought about.

The New Herald and the US government spokespersons are "telling a bare-faced lie when they accuse our government of an alleged cut off of electricity and the reduction of drinking water supply to the USIS," notes the official Cuban daily.

I went to a tribute to my late friend, Wells Keddie, at the Labor Education Center of Rutgers University on Monday. Wells died recently after a lifetime of struggle in the labor movement and as a labor educator.

The book covers the history of the Pentagon from its opening in 1943 until the present. What gets Grimes’ goat is that Carroll portrays the U.S. as basically war like and an enemy of, or at least the major threat, to world peace.

“Spying on citizens for merely executing their constitutional rights of free speech and peaceful assembly is chilling and marks a troubling trend for the United States,” states Joyce Miller,AFSC

The peace group CODEPINK is widely known for bringing its anti-war message to the halls of power, including inside the Republican National Convention and at President Bush’s Inauguration

Soldiers patrolled the streets of Guinea’s capital Conakry on Tuesday after a second day of violence in the midst of a crippling nationwide strike that has inflamed political tension.