Current international realities have repeatedly posed the question of the relationship of the peace movement and the left to clearly reactionary regimes that have fallen victims to aggression by the United States and its proxies. 

With more than 6,000 stores spread out across the globe--Wal-Mart is the world’s biggest retailer, hands down, and also a magnet for criticism for its low wages, inadequate health coverage and effect on struggling downtowns. Wal-Mart has also had its share of environmental problems.

The revised "National Strategy for Combating Terrorism" that the U.S. government released on September 5 concluded: "America is safer," and "We have liberated more than 50 million Afghans and Iraqis from despotism, terrorism, and oppression." The reality, however, is the opposite of this.

HADI Saleh was the International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions. He visited Britain as part of a trade union delegation last year. A month later, he was dead, murdered in his home by former members of Saddam Hussein's secret police.

This writer believes that an assessment of all data available, from all sources, yields a figure of approximately 500,000 deaths from disease, malnutrition, and violence over the past 43 months of conflict in Darfur.

hese are tough times for Mustafa Kubaissy, a 48-year-old shopkeeper in Baghdad. He has been leading a troubled life for the past three years since the US-led invasion of Iraq which ousted former president Saddam Hussein.

Rampant insecurity in North Darfur State is preventing aid agencies from distributing food and stopping many farmers from planting crops. The result is very precarious food security, aid workers warn.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) qualified as outrageous and dishonest a report presented by a U.S. congressional intelligence committee on Iran’s nuclear program, according to diplomatic sources.

FBI agents responsible for getting a confidant of Osama Bin Laden to betray Al Qaeda's innermost secrets say the Bush administration's rough interrogation tactics employed against other captives since 9/11 are the wrong approach.

On Thursday United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), the nation's largest antiwar coalition, learned it would be given a permit for a peaceful antiwar protest march in New York City to coincide with President Bush’s visit to the United Nations.

U.S. workers who have the greatest need for employee benefits – workers earning less than $15 per hour – are the least likely to receive them.

A report released yesterday by the non-partisan Apollo Alliance says that investments and reforms contained in the so-called Clean EDGE Act would help create jobs while cultivating a strong alternative energy sector.

Oaxaca has many dangerous teachers like Gutierrez. In the in the 1970s and 80s, more than a hundred Oaxaca's teachers were killed in the struggle for control of their union, Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers.

Removed from reality, self-consumed and desperate, the Bush administration went on another PR offensive, in what is considered the "third most major public relations effort" in the last year.

Several hundred Pennsylvanians joined local residents in a Sept. 3 rally here organized by labor, Latino and religious groups to oppose a city ordinance that would make it illegal to sell goods or services to, rent to, hire or aid undocumented immigrants.

In Haiti, the institution of slavery survives in the form of restavec, a system of forced child labour. Restavec is the Haitian Creole term meaning “stay with” and has its origins in the legacy of slavery, the sharply hierarchical class structure and the grinding poverty of Haiti’s masses.

Less than a week has passed since the cover of objectivity was blown for 10 journalist-agents receiving large sums of money from the US government for writing horrors about Cuba.

Despite his claim to support job creation in Michigan, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos again has shown himself to be on the wrong side of the issue.

A Milwaukee Human Rights Roundtable on Sept 15 to follow up the UN Make Poverty History Program astonishingly includes Milwaukee District Attorney E. Michael McCann as guest commentator.

The testimony that I presented in January to the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration was related to the evidence found in the Downing Street Memos.