The term “greenbelt” refers to any area of undeveloped natural land that has been set aside near urban or developed land to provide open space, offer light recreational opportunities or contain development.

I began the preface of my latest book, “The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle,” by making the following claim: “The second Palestinian uprising will be etched in history as an era where a major shift in the rules of the game has occurred.”

As developing countries like the Lao PDR play a growing role in the global economy, they must tread carefully to take advantage of the tremendous opportunity while avoiding the economic pitfalls that have plagued many countries around the world over the past few decades.

The dispute over the governments decision to appoint ambassadors in 14 diplomatic missions and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seemed to be intensifying today with the leaders of the ruling seven-party alliance (SPA) engaging in claims and counterclaims over the cabinet decision.

There's a song from the legendary 1960 musical, "Bye, Bye Birdie," titled "Kids," which laments the peculiar behaviors of kids. It famously ponders, "Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way? What's the matter with kids today?"

Those telling words were the lyrical musings of adults. And logically so, for the questionable behaviors of kids are a never ending bemusement for adults. Kids are silly. They lack the logic and moral framework from which to make reasoned decisions and act in civil respectable ways. They lack the character building acquired through the process of aging.

Former President Jimmy Carter says by “rejecting or evading almost all nuclear arms control agreements negotiated during the past 50 years, the United States has now become the prime culprit in global nuclear proliferation.”

ately, relations between Kabul and Islamabad have taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Hamid Karzai has accused Pakistan of spurring the Taliban to carry out attacks against his fledgling government and the NATO troops that defend it.

Three months after receiving reports of serious worker rights abuses and police violence against protesting workers at its Chong Won Fashion supply factory in the Philippines, Wal-Mart is still delaying taking the necessary steps to fix the problem.

In violation of the U.S. Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, offensive germ warfare than the $2-billion spent in World War II on the Manhattan Project to make the atomic bomb.

he US Department of Justice’s (USDOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) opened a review of the USDOJ’s role in the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless wiretapping program.

Augusto Pinochet died December 10, escaping justice. An Italian scholar of progressive views whom I know said to me cynically that it was a “good death.”

The Bush administration and its "justice department keeps finding ways to block justice and circumvent the rights the constitution grants.

For that reason this is an Urgent Request For Funds To Buy Trial Transcripts in defense of a blessed man wrongfully convicted by the Bush Justice Department for his crime of compassion.

Since the midterm elections, my primary focus has shifted from denouncing the Bush regime to exploring how to employ the newly won Democratic power.

The launch of Aljazeera International on November 15, the English arm of Aljazeera Satellite Television was hardly an ordinary event.

The two Houses of the US Congress have now passed the Hyde Act, which is going to be the basis for the final version of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal.

It is now clear that our victory at the polls didn’t move the Congress immediately to take up national single payer healthcare for all – not yet.

Immigrant workers and their supporters protest outside the Woodfin Suites hotel in Emeryville, the morining after hotel managers fired 20 workers.