It is this new China – making tremendous advances, which, in the process is throwing up compelling socio-economic problems with the surfacing of trends alien to socialism like corruption, inequalities, unemployment etc – that is being built today.

The opposition to the setting up of a motor plant in Singur in West Bengal has, indeed, attracted very strange bedfellows. BJP president Rajnath Singh, Trinamul Congress’s Mamta Banerjee, sections of state Congress leadership and Medha Patkar have all come together spreading canards against the West Bengal Left Front government.

With the toll of Aids-related deaths accelerating each year, and faced with reluctance on the part of wealthy nations and industries to take their fair share of the responsibility, the plight of HIV/AIDS sufferers in poor countries looks increasingly desperate.

US Rep. Cynthia McKinney today became the first US Congresswoman to introduce Articles of Impeachment against President Bush, as well as Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. The remarks are expected to become part of the Congressional Record but will not be available on thomas.loc.gov until next week.

IN THE publicity material for this documentary about John Lennon, Yoko Ono is quoted as saying: "Of all the documentaries that have been made about John, this is the one he would have loved." It deals with Lennon's life between 1966-76, the decade in which he became politicised and made his very vocal stand against the Vietnam war in 1972.

Do you think President Bush has committed one or more impeachable offenses? If you said no, I want to talk to you for a second. If you said yes, let's talk in just a minute – but stick around for this first, you'll enjoy it.

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has introduced articles of impeachment against George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice.

According to the New York Times and Washington Post leaked versions of the Iraq Study Group’s consensus position (Nov. 29 and 30), their recommendations will tinker around the edges of Bush’s strategy, but not propose a wholesale alteration, let alone an actual policy reversal.

Did you notice something about the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group Report?  It recommends all sorts of changes, all of them far short of actually ending the war, but it recommends them all to the same person responsible for the disastrous situation we're in now.

EFCA would amend the National Labor Relations Act to allow workers to form unions by simply signing a card or petition, impose real penalties on employers who violate the law, and allow for arbitration to settle first contract disputes.

For the fourth time in eight years of leadership, the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution submitted himself to the verdict of the voting booths. For the fourth time, he received the growing vote of support of the immense majority of Venezuelan people.

Today (December 6), at 5:00am, hundreds of policepeople accompanied six bulldozers demolished 17 homes and 3 animal shacks in the village of Twail Abu-Jarwal in the southern part of Israel.

Though the report presented by the Iraq Study Group (ISG) is a sharp criticism and rejection of the Bush war policy, its recommendations simply "continue the occupation in a new form," said Hany Khalil organizing coordinator of United for Peace and Justice.

The US government implicitly acknowledged the legitimacy of Venezuela’s December 3rd presidential election on Monday, where Hugo Chávez comfortably retained his position as president for the next 6 years.

The government and the ruling parties are rushing to pass through the House of Representatives a bill to revise the Self-Defense Forces Law to include overseas dispatch of the SDF in its primary duties and to revise the Defense Agency Act to upgrade the agency to a ministry that is capable of commanding overseas operations.

Last week's massive demonstrations by the trade union movement, community organisations, and progressive political parties was a powerful message to the Federal Government despite the attendances being below those expected.

Brushing aside questions about Robert Gates' past involvement in the Iran-Contra debacle, and ignoring his role in the funneling of intelligence to Saddam during the Iraq/Iran war, and overcoming their own hesitance 15 years ago to advance him to the position of CIA director, the Senate Armed Forces Committee voted unanimously for the former analyst to replace the primary architect of every aspect of Bush's military muckraking abroad and assume responsibility for Rumsfeld's war against Iraq, effective with the anticipated vote of the full Senate later this week.

Several human rights organizations, including the FIDH (Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l’homme) and the American-based Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a complaint in Germany. This legal procedure became possible in 2002, when the country adopted a law of universal competence.*

One of the points of the book is that migration is a community process. It’s not an individual process. Whole communities participate in it, but migration also creates communities.

Columnist George Will has found senator-elect Jim Webb (D-Va.) guilty of “careless and absurd assertions,” for writing the wealth gap between rich and poor is “the least debated issue” in American politics.