Last year Harry Frankfurt, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, wrote a great non-Marxist book about our time and place in the "information age." "On Bullshit" is its catchy title.

In view of the contemporary myth of the all-powerful character of US transnationals, it is important to start by stressing the real power exercised over them by the US government. Both right-wingers and some on the left have claimed that such companies are beyond the control of any particular state and can now move capital without detection across any border.

The greater recourse to military pressures and to war by imperialism and its main surrogates have led to more acute sufferings in many parts of the world. Iraq continues to bleed from the sectarian strife stirred up by the US occupation.

The Democrats got their 7-million vote victory majority November 7th and regained control of Congress in good part from educated voters who think for themselves.

It has long been clear that the main danger facing the world community is U.S. imperialism. In our view, curbing the interventionist war policies of U.S. imperialism is crucial to the self determination and sovereignty of all nations.

I finished John Nichols' book entitled, "The Genius of Impeachment." The Founders Cure for Royalism." So who hasn't heard the term, King George? Who hasn't cringed at Dick Cheney's know-it-all, my-way-or-the-highway attitude throughout this White House "occupation?"

The Queen’s Speech may have promised action to provide ‘strong, secure and stable communities’, but its proposals to attack civil liberties and privatising public services will do exactly the opposite, Emily Mann told the Communist Party of Britain’s executive committee last month.

Canadians are constantly told that "we live in the best country in the world." But millions still live in poverty, and everything positive that working people have struggled to achieve is being wiped out by corporations and rightwing governments. This excerpt from the Communist party of Canada's Draft Resolution for its upcoming 35th Central Convention presents the CPC's views on this stark contradiction.

With International Human Rights Day, December 10, less than two weeks away, the AFL-CIO and its affiliates are preparing to commemorate the day with renewed vigor, resolve, and hope that we can restore fundamental workers' rights in America.

As long as there has been a U.S. military, people have been leaving it.  That choice has never been more appropriate than today.  Individuals who signed up to defend the United States are engaged in a war that was sold on the basis of lies.

Turkey’s bid to join the European Union could suffer by its refusal to admit the genocide of its Armenian Christian population nearly a century ago.

To defeat the Howard Government voters need to ensure that they are on the electoral roll and on polling day put the Liberals last on their ballot paper. At the present time the only alternative to a Liberal/National Party Coalition Government is an ALP Government.

The Porsche family wants to sack 3,700 blue-collar and 500 white-collar workers in VW-Forest (Brussels). Among with them, around 8,000 wage-earners from the subcontracting factories nearby would also lose their jobs.

The astonishing comeback of Rafael Correa from what appeared to be a definitive first round defeat marks one of the most extraordinary reversals of the political fate of a South American leader within memory. Correa’s victory also represents a significant triumph for the average Ecuadorean who refused to be beguiled by Álvaro Noboa’s well-fueled, so-called populist, but splash-dash campaign.

Many years ago, I received as a birthday gift an LP (also known as "vinyl" to those unfamiliar with the format of sound recordings prior to compact discs and MP3's) entitled "Richard Nixon Superstar" by vocal impressionist David Frye. One of the tracks featured Frye, as Rev. Billy Graham, saying of Richard Nixon: "He ignored his critics. He ignored the polls. He ignored the wishes of the American people." I am getting somewhat that same sensation about Vice President Dick Cheney.

Those whose forefathers have lived together for thousands of years on this land as brothers ... come today so we can write our history, our present and the future, for our children and grandchildren, in forgiveness . . . Do not let those who are depriving you of security impinge on your unity." -- Kurdish leaders [yesterday], in a joint statement.

??? ethical, and human conditioning of how we moved in four short years from the idea of "defending a nation" to simply following "unlawful orders." The human, soul-searching questions we must now ask of ourselves, our leaders, and even our troops.

Hanging deposed dictator Saddam Hussein after a seriously flawed trial, one in which he was denied due process, could provoke an apocalyptic firestorm by his followers.

The recent American overtures to induct Iran in any political settlement over Iraq have immensely troubled the Israel. So perturbed has been the government in Tel Aviv that she has mounted a concerted campaign in America to keep alive the notion that Iran poses a grave danger to the US and must be thwarted at any cost.

A London-based Haiti solidarity group with ties to shadowy U.S./Canadian-backed non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that participated in the campaign to destabilize the former center-left Haitian government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is behind efforts to discredit a new report from the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet.