Why don’t we call America the United States of England? It may be a separate entity politically and geographically, but it truly carries forward the imperial spirit of the old British Empire.

Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) has gone on record as stating that the separation between church and state is "a lie." Harris gained notoriety when, as Florida's Secretary of State, her decisions resulted in awarding Florida's electoral votes to George W. Bush in November of 2000.

The Israeli and the western media has built the myth that the attacks on Gaza and later on the Lebanese population are a response by Israel to their one soldier being kidnapped by the Hamas on June 25 and two others being kidnapped by Hezbollah on July 12.

An estimated 5,000 Nepalese citizens have disappeared over the last decade of armed conflict following their arrests by the state-controlled security forces, the Society of the Family of Disappeared Citizens by the State, said on Thursday in the capital, Kathmandu.

Thousands of displaced Israelis have headed back to their homes after a United Nations-brokered ceasefire silenced the Hezbollah rockets being fired into the north of the country.

Ever since a Shi’ite shrine was attacked last February in Samarra, 125km north of Baghdad, sectarian violence has raged throughout the country, creating a climate of lawlessness that criminal gangs are exploiting.

The President of the Lebanese Government's Council for Development and Reconstruction, Nabil Jisr, says the country would be rebuilt to a higher standard than before 34 days of conflict with Israel.

Venezuela’s plans to reduce its dependency on the US market for its oil exports took a step forward yesterday as President Hugo Chávez signed several agreements with the Chinese government in Beijing.

The 2006 World Conference against A & H Bombs was held August 2-9 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Overseas and Japanese participants made a pledge to largely advance the movements to establish a "Nuclear Weapon-Free, Peaceful and Just World."

An incident that took place last week in Red River Parish, Louisiana, serves as a grim reminder that racism remains a virulent virus that can grow and multiply in a political Petri dish laid out by the ultra-right.

In a report published earlier this week, Amnesty International characterized Israeli military policies of destroying civilian infrastructure during its recent 34-day war on Lebanon as "deliberate" and "on a catastrophic scale."

We write to you in anguish, to express what cannot possibly be contained in words. We need a new language to speak about what humanity means and still can mean, what our humanity must create in this danger.

When somebody, anybody, tells you “the only way” to do a thing is their way, and it happens to be the military way, this usually means they are going to take you for a ride down the fiery road to war.

The next few days could herald a decisive outcome for left-leaning presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the post-electoral quandary, which has deeply affected Mexico for almost two months.

The Prime Minister John Howard and the Governor-General, Michael Jeffrey, who was a participant in the Vietnam war and is well-known for his military attitudes and anti-communism, were at pains to apologise to the participants in the Vietnam War.

"Peace in the Middle East" may make for a snappy bumper sticker. But a more relevant message to send to fellow motorist – and to the presidential motorcade in particular – is "Free Palestine." Because getting that message right would not only mean peace between Israel and its neighbors, but also the elimination of the greatest reason terrorists target the United States and its allies in the first place.

Since May 22, Oaxacan teachers have been occupying the main plaza in the city of Oaxaca. In the beginning of the occupation, the teachers' demands from the government were simple: fair wages to adjust for their cost of living and the guarantee of a better educational environment for their students.

In 1775, Thomas Paine stated his belief that "any excuse can be made to serve the purpose of malignity when it is in power." A perfect example of this more than two centuries later is President George W. Bush's claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

After vetoing minimum wage legislation two years in a row, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has finally agreed this week to sign a Democratic bill to raise that state's minimum wage to $8 by 2008.

And yet another menacing terror plot was thwarted 10 August, with the arrest of 24 suspects, all British Muslims. It was an ominous conspiracy aimed at committing "mass murder" on an "unimaginable" scale, British authorities quickly concluded.