"The Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group was established nine months ago and its general proposals were not unexpected, having been widely leaked over previous weeks," Salam Ali says. "What gave it political prominence was the defeat of the Bush administration in the recent US Congress elections...

Organized labor’s successful mobilization that retook Congress in 2006 is the first step in a multi-year plan to restore primacy of progressive political forces and ideas in the U.S., AFL-CIO Political Director Karen Ackerman says.

In his six years as President of the United States, George W. Bush has accumulated a long list of criminal activities which mark him as a dangerous criminal, enough reason to try him and expel him from the White House.

The use of vegetable oil for diesel fuel has grown in popularity in recent years, thanks to both high fuel prices and ecological concerns. Analysts estimate that some 5,000 North Americans have converted their diesel cars or trucks to run on vegetable oil in the last few years alone.

We look back at these past 12 months with mixed emotions. An awful situation in Iraq has become even worse. The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health concluded that approximately 600,000 Iraqis had been killed since the U.S. invasion in March 2003.

New, repressive measures will soon be implemented in the European Union in the name of “combating terrorism.” Critics say the measures are actually aimed at nipping a growing European left-wing radicalism in the bud.

The upcoming immigration hearing for Luis Posada Carriles, the 78 year-old felon who is a self-confessed co-conspirator responsible for the detonation of a bomb which killed 73 passengers and crew members aboard a Cuban passenger airliner as it flew over Barbadian waters on October 6, 1976, represents a huge political burden for the White House and its deteriorating relations with Latin America.

The impeachment of President Bush has become an important issue. For some people on the left impeachment has even become a litmus test for the "true" progressive.

The White House portrays the impending execution of Saddam Hussein as a milestone in Iraq's transition to a democracy, which speaks volumes for Washington's understanding of both justice and democracy.

The number of suicides in war-ravaged Iraq is increasing due to psychological stress caused by relentless violence, medical experts said.

Se está especulando mucho sobre la posibilidad de que se produzcan cambios significativos en la política exterior de Estados Unidos, en razón de los estruendosos fracasos que ha cosechado últimamente esta pandilla fascista del clan Bush.

The reduction this year in the amount of pollution to the environment in Cuba was highlighted yesterday by Dr. José Antonio Díaz Duque, deputy minister for science, technology and the environment.

Leaders of Iraq's labour movement today criticised government plans to "hand control" over the country's oil production to multinational companies.

Winter was the perfect season for the release of "The Good Shepherd" which exacerbated December's icy chill and masterfully depicted the bloodless, emotional vacuity of CIA cold warrior, Edward Wilson.

With most of the votes counted, Hugo Chavez has won Venezuela's Dec. 3 presidential elections with 7,161,637 votes (62.89% of the total), against 4,196,329 votes (36.85%) for his right-wing rival, Manuel Rosales. A total of 14 candidates competed, supported by 79 parties, 24 of which supported Chavez, and 43 of which backed Rosales. No other candidate received over 1% of the vote. Chavez begins his second six-year term in February.

Borrowing the opening line from Dickens' Tale of Two Cities - "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." He referred to the French Revolution promising "Liberte, egalite and fraternite" that began in 1789, inspired by ours from 1775 - 1783. It ended a 1000 years of monarchal rule in France benefitting those of privilege and established the nation as a republic the way ours did for us here a few years earlier.

Unbeknownst to many Americans, there is overwhelming consensus among scientists that we are very close to reaching a point of no turning back on global warming, which is caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

In two famous books, Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism, Palestinian American literary critic Edward W. Said detailed some of the relationships and interactions between European/North American cultures and their imperialist enterprises.

Veterans and military families are planning dramatic actions in the nation’s capital in late January to appeal to ordinary Americans to speak out for an end to the Iraq war.

The standard argument for the proposition that a capitalist class is at all socially necessary is that this class undertakes productive investment: it thereby causes the development of the productive forces, which is a condition for social progress.