How will such an historic setback impact the Israeli collective psyche is yet to be seen, though I worry that Palestinians will feel the brunt of Israel’s attempt to restore its confidence.

What you may not know about your congressional representative or Senator may shock and anger you.

Despite Bush administration claims that the economy made strong gains this past year, real median household income did not grow and for full-time, year-round individual workers, real income actually declined more than 1%.

This wave of violence comes on the heels of US military claims that it had succeeded in tightening security in Baghdad and surrounding areas. Widespread fears of sectarian violence breaking out into open civil war have so far not been alleviated.

Faced with strong opposition from the Australian Government, backed up by the US, Japan and Britain, the UN Security Council backed away from the call for both military and police contingents to be under UN control in Timor-Leste.

Pedro Alvarez, president of Cuban Food Import Company (ALIMPORT), described as very positive and successful the recent signing of a letter of intent with Navajo farm businesspeople from the US state of New Mexico.

Natalie Maines, of the Dixie Chicks (an unfortunate name for a great country group), in England, spoke up a few days before the start of the Iraq war.

Qatar's leading English language daily reports 500 Pakistani students will leave for Cuba to start their medical education as a result of scholarships provided by the Cubans.

Venezuelan supporters of President Hugo Chavez are openly questioning who the United States is funding in their country. A lawsuit may soon give the answer

Over the last five years, there has been a new concentration of wealth in the hands of the few in the US. Meanwhile, middle and lower-income families have seen their already precarious financial solvency eroded by rising debt and stagnant wages.

The main product of this war is hatred. The pictures of death and destruction in Lebanon entered every Arab home, indeed every Muslim home, from Indonesia to Morocco, from Yemen to the Muslim ghettos in London and Berlin.

Incontestably, Guatemala has been one of the worst human rights violators in Latin American history, a fact made evident by the bloody state-sanctioned military rampage that raged from 1962 to 1996, and took at least 200,000 lives.

Like the dinosaur, "the US economy is mind-bogglingly enormous, two and a half times as big as the next largest economy in the world and almost as large as that of the six other members of the Group of Seven combined.

A growing grassroots campaign is demanding the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

If anyone knows anything about international law it's Dr. Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he's more than a little ticked off at the moment at President Bush.

One year after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, waste, cronyism, and abuse have outpaced recovery and reconstruction, according to a recent report titled "Big, Easy Money" published by CorpWatch.

Allan Burns, running against the powerful incumbent, US Rep. John Linder (R-GA), in Georgia's 7th Congressional District, knows he has an uphill battle.