Religious leaders representing churches, synagogues, and mosques throughout Michigan have come together to voice their strong opposition to Proposal 2, a ballot proposal to ban affirmative action and equal opportunity initiatives in state contracting, education, and employment in the state.

"Mr. Swanson – Can you address the counter-argument to your idea.  That if we leave Iraq a worse leader will take power and attack the US again?" Again?

Bangladesh has entered into a period of political crisis and turmoil following the end of the government tenure of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party/-Jamat four-party alliance.

I spent the last eight days of Israeli-Lebanon war, Aug. 7-14, in Beirut, Lebanon’s capital. I had traveled there as part of a peace delegation from the United States. Our aim was to express solidarity with the people of Lebanon.

The U.S.-led occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are increasingly recognized as disasters, even at the top levels of the military. General Richard Dannatt, the highest-ranking military officer in Britain, has warned that the occupation troops in Iraq must be withdrawn soon, since their unwelcome presence is exacerbating security problems.

Saying the ruling broke international compacts the U.S. signed, the AFL-CIO on Oct. 23 filed a formal case with the International Labour Organization contesting the National Labor Relations Board’s ruling declaring new groups of workers are supervisors. The federation wants not just a decision against the U.S. government, but a full-scale international investigation.

With the mid-term elections one week away, it has become a regular occurrance in my home to receive pre-recorded messages from the candidates urging us to cast our ballots in their favor. Perhaps many readers have had similar experiences.

Nothing prepared me for the phone call that came this morning...from the Republican National Committee.

Journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater received wide acclaim for their first book exposé of Karl Rove's role in the Bush campaign in 2000 and in the first term of the administration, Bush’s Brain.

The Iraqi government must move quickly to prosecute all Ministry of Interior personnel responsible for "death squad" killings in Baghdad and elsewhere, the New-York based NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Saturday.

Terry Eagleton really puts down Dawkins, not so much for being an atheist as for not knowing much about what he is criticizing. He compares Dawkins to a person holding forth on biology who has only read the Book of British Birds.

Many Americans are cynical about what they hear from politicians – and often with good reason – but perhaps no U.S. political leader in modern history has engaged in a pattern of lying and distortion more systematically than George W. Bush has.

Next week, it looks like the Republicans are going to lose big. They deserve to. They'be been corrupt, dishonest, more loyal to corporations and religious extremists than to our nation, our workers, our industries.

Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s warning the War on Terror promises to be a long, drawn-out struggle akin to the Cold War comes from an eminent authority on war-making and must be taken with the utmost seriousness.  

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan officials, politicians and others denounced over the past week, what they believe are plans to destabilize the Venezuelan Presidential Elections, which is set to be held in less than six weeks, on December 3rd.

Congress has just approved a bill legitimising the detention of certain detainees for an arbitrary period. This means it violates the very foundations of democracy.

TORONTO - After three years of relatively progressive municipal government, the right-wing has launched an offensive to take over City Hall and the School Board.

The assault on the KSM is an assault on democracy, an assault on all of those who seek to join together to create a better world, and to defeat the ideologues of capitalism and extremism who have taken over greater portions of the world since the fall of the Soviet Union.

The mid-term provides the backdrop to see how the Manmohan Singh government has undertaken to implement the CMP provision to pursue an independent foreign policy and promote multi-polarity in international relations.