Reflecting the thinking and spirit of Noam Chomsky, Hugo Chavez delivered an impassioned speech yesterday [Sept. 20] to the assembled delegates who came to hear him. It's one likely to be favorably remembered many years from now.

Assuming the electricity is generated by a typical power plant with an efficiency of around 30 percent, it means that the average electric water heater is responsible for about eight tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, which is almost double that emitted by a typical modern automobile.

An expert in international law and an old friend of the Palestinian people wrote me with utter distress a few days after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh were reported to have reached an agreement Sept. 11 to form a national unity government.

The Non-Aligned Movement Summit held in Havana, Cuba, ended on September 17 after adopting the "Declaration on the Purposes and Principles and the Role of the Non-Aligned Movement in the Present International Juncture."

THE reaction of Washington's reactionary po-faced politicians to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's light-hearted reference to George W Bush as the devil showed his remarkable ability to get under their skin.

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) calls for the immediate extradition of known terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who is wanted in Venezuela for a string of bombings.

These days Hungary is characterized by turbulent political events. On Sunday, September 17 a confidential speech by Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany was leaked and published on the Internet. It was a speech made by the Prime Minister in a meeting with the parliamentary members of the Hungarian Socialist Party in May 2006.

Borrowing a line from U.S. linguist and foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky, Venezuela’s President Chavez told the 61st UN General Assembly that the world currently faces the choice between continued U.S. hegemony and human survival.

We are sending missiles to Iran on a ship departing my home state of Virginia next week, and the water the ship will be passing through is warmer than it used to be, and there's more of it.

Pope Benedict XVI is not having a good week and yet doesn’t seem to mind. Upsetting one out of every five people living today may be of no concern for the His Holiness—made evident by his half-hearted, “sorry my infallible words offended you” apology.

Religious figures, veterans and peace movement leaders kicked off a national week of moral witness against the Iraq occupation at a press conference in front of the White House today.

A top United Nations envoy warned on Thursday that the Darfur peace agreement was on the verge of collapse and lambasted the Darfur Ceasefire Commission (CFC), which is responsible for monitoring and implementing the accord.

Violence and the use of torture has increased exponentially in Iraq since the United States-led occupation of the country began in 2003, according to local analysts.

Chilean investigators say the Bush administration is undercutting their case against former dictator Augusto Pinochet for his alleged role in the terrorist assassination of a political rival on the streets of Washington three decades ago, a crime that then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush appears to have tolerated and then helped cover-up.

Just weeks after reluctantly re-authorizing the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a major provision of the Civil Rights era aimed at eliminating discrimination against certain groups of voters, the Republican-controlled House moved to nullify some of the VRA’s major provisions by approving a new "poll tax" bill (H.R. 4844).

The Evo Morales government continues to confront right-wing separatist actions against its reforms, and has denounced a conspiracy to topple the Bolivian president.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a farewell address to global leaders yesterday, depicted a world divided by an unjust economy, contempt for human rights and a failure to make peace in the Middle East.

The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads.

The United States, which warned time and again to impose sanctions against Iran, has softened its tone on Iran's nuclear program, the Washington Post said on Wednesday.

No mistake, the Successor of Saint Peter, the Vicar of Christ on Earth, the Sovereign Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI has erred and the damage is done: His anti-Islam remarks are out and cannot be retracted, like bullets that cannot be retrieved once shot.