THE information and communications technology (ICT) industry is today seen as truly global, with the process of diffusion worldwide having been particularly rapid over the last decade. Diffusion, however, has two separate components: the diffusion of supply, involving production of ICT equipment and services, and diffusion in use, whether in or outside production.

Health advocates have worried for decades that exposure to frequencies emanating from these many sources might be harmful. And the ubiquity of such technology today--especially considering the quantum leap in cell phone usage in recent years--only makes such concerns that much more pressing.

A young communist activist from Tel-Aviv and occupation refuser Omri Evron was sentenced Sunday, Oct 15, 2006, to 14 days in military prison after he announced his refusal to enlist for regular mandatory service in the IDF.

Karl Rove’s fear factor is falling flat. Yes, the threat of terrorism is a scare, but a lot of folks are getting even more scared by the combination of Bush in the White House and a Republican-controlled Congress. “Too dangerous!” is a familiar refrain from voters on the campaign trail.

The word Holocaust has come to describe the horrors of the planned extermination campaigns launched by Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II. But the history of the Holocaust during World War II in what was then "former Yugoslavia" is not at all well known.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Coke continues to grow at a rapid pace. Coca-Cola's image, its brand names and its financial performance are being questioned and challenged as never before.

A meeting between union representatives and Education Minister Marietta Giannakou yesterday failed to find the formula to end a five-week teachers’ strike as hopes for an immediate end to the standoff faded.

Anti-poverty Day protesters declared the IAG building in Auckland’s CBD a “GRIME SCENE” on International Anti Poverty Day yesterday.

More than 100 sanitation workers have gone on strike in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, because they have not been paid in full as promised.

Guatemala and Venezuela have persistently fallen short of the two thirds majority needed to secure GRULAC’s (the UN’s Latin American and Caribbean caucus) seat in the UN Security Council (UNSC) after more than two days of voting and 22 grueling rounds of balloting.

"Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers," by far the best film Robert Greenwald has created, is not about the military industrial complex.  Rather, it is about the remaining shell of the former military, having embedded within itself not just the media, but numerous other corporate entities.

The most alarming thing I learned about American politics in the past decade is that one powerful group of political leaders is dedicated to keeping American citizens from voting. This group is the leadership of the modern Republican Party. This fact is carefully hidden from the average republican voter who clearly does not support this approach to politics.

There’s no competition for this week’s top story -- a new survey of excess mortality in Iraq, put together by some of the same researchers at Johns Hopkins and al-Mustansiriyah University who did the last one in 2004, concludes that there have likely been 655,000 excess deaths of Iraqis during the first 40 months of the occupation, 601,000 due to violence.

The report states that the Botswana government used physical force and 'coercion and intimidation' to evict Bushmen from the reserve, and recommends that the government allow people who wish to go home to do so.

The 35th Convention of the Communist Party of Canada will take place in February, 2007. Meeting in Toronto over the Sept. 30-Oct. 1 weekend, the party's Central Committee adopted a resolution on the international situation and the turn to the right by the Harper Tory federal government. The Draft Resolution will be the main focus of debate for three months leading up to the CPC's Central Convention, scheduled for the first weekend of February in Toronto.

Well, so much for Iraqi "sovereignty." So much too for "staying the course" and for "fighting the terrorists there so we won't have to fight them here." And while we're at it, so much for all the young Americans who've tragically given their lives or their bodies and health in the interest of advancing President Bush's criminal political agenda.

Bush’s timeworn hostility for President Chávez is well known. Top secret US government documents released through Freedom of Information Act requests show that the administration’s anti-Chávez operations may even pre-date the September 11th terrorist attacks and the launch of the "war on terror."

Lewis Lapham, essayist extraordinaire and editor of Harper's magazine, asked Congressman John Conyers what he thought the point was of publishing a lengthy report laying out evidence of Bush's impeachable offenses.  Conyers' response was: "to take away the excuse that we didn't know."

Venezuela’s Minister of Planning and Development, Jorge Giordani, said last Monday that the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was expected to reach $150 billion by the year’s end, up from $100 billion just a few years ago.

THE HISTORIC STRUGGLE of the Six Nations of the Grand River to maintain their ownership and control of land resulted last February in the occupation of land sold during a legal dispute process by the federal government of Brian Mulroney.