Appearing at a town hall meeting in Detroit, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) called for a "new American agenda" for the next session Congress.

According to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE) Green Book, an annual environmental rating of the best and worst cars, Honda and Toyota models led the pack as the world’s “greenest” automobiles for 2006.

Is there, or will there be, a revitalized Democratic Latin American policy as distinct from the farrago of ineptitude witnessed under the Bush administration?

As capitalist formula based mass production came to dominate all areas of life, including fiction, films, TV, recorded music and the majority of "live" concerts and plays, many artists ended up like Yossarian in Catch-22, that is, seeking to escape from the machine.

Israel's Supreme Court has overturned a controversial Israeli law banning Palestinians from claiming compensation for harm suffered at the hands of soldiers.

Smiling behind her desk, school teacher Sabita Adhikari is thrilled to see all 40 of her fourth grade students in class. "Nobody is absent anymore. It's because children feel safe to travel from their villages to attend class," said Adhikari.

A sword and sorcery saga, Eragon has all the ingredients to make this another money spinner for it's creator Christopher Paolini, who was only 15 years old when he wrote the original novel.

THE U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has just fined well-known filmmaker Oliver Stone for violating the laws of what they euphemistically refer to as an embargo, actually nothing more than a barbaric, brutal, systematic blockade, universally recognized as such and condemned by an overwhelming majority in the United Nations.

he Vietnamese Government leader has attributed the country's impressive economic growth and poverty reduction progress partially to international assistance.

In a report submitted to the U.S. president and the Congress, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group admitted that in Iraq the situation is "grave and deteriorating" and "there is no path that can guarantee success." The Bush administration's Iraq policy has clearly reached a dead end.

When the bipartisan Iraq Study Group released its recommendations Dec. 6, they were widely seen as an effort to identify the “least bad” options for U.S. ruling circles that would, to the extent possible, salvage their interests in Iraq and the region.

The perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress likely was a government scientist employed at the Army’s Ft. Detrick, Md., bioterrorism lab having access to a “moonsuit” that made it possible to safely process and manufacture super-weapons-grade anthrax, a bioterrorism authority says.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, which I am not, I would say that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's far right president, was an agent provocateur of the Bush administration, working to isolate his country from the civilized world and set the stage for a military attack on it.

In the 3 December 2006 presidential election, Chavez won 61.2% of the vote, carrying every state, including that of his opponent, Manuel Rosales, Governor of the State of Zulia. During the attempted coup against President Chavez, Rosales was the only governor to sign on to the Carmona Decrees, “on behalf of the governors.”

In Australia we are only at the beginning of the sort of changes that have taken place in Latin America, in Africa and Asia. None-the-less, there are several issues gaining momentum in this country, and the impact they are making on society should not be underestimated.

The decision to deploy the Army nationwide on the lame excuse that the situation requires “law and order,” will only make the country's political scenario more difficult and deepen the existing crisis.

Members of the National Assembly, on the second day session of the 2nd National Assembly meeting (Sixth Legislature), yesterday continued to share their concerns on the implementation of the the government's poverty reduction plan.

'Have you learnt nothing from your own history? You're doing what Hitler did - he began by banning the Communists', RMT rail union general secretary Bob Crow told Czech embassy officials in London yesterday.

Congress Members of both parties, not to mention the White House, have already forgotten the anti-war and anti-Bush vote of November 7th (the Republicans lost one more seat in a runoff on Wednesday) and are dreaming of big Christmas presents for war profiteers. Since we Americans apparently have no other need for any money, and since we enjoy paying our taxes so much, they're planning to approve another $160 billion in "emergency" (off the books) cash for the war early next year. That's billion with a B. This will be on top of the $70 billion they provided in October. I hate to play Scrooge here, but ain't that a bit much?

Having used Latino and labor votes to recapture control of the US Congress, some influential Democratic Party power brokers now seem intent on attacking the very base that produced their victory.