Nearly two weeks after hearing arguments in the January 4 pre-trial phase of Lt. Ehren Watada’s court martial for refusing to deploy to Iraq, and explaining his refusal to the press, military circuit judge Lt. Col. John M. Head today issued brief, tersely worded rulings January 16, 2007.

While a bill to pass the federal minimum wage passed the US House just last week, an identical bill in the US Senate is uncertain to pass at this time, particularly when 15 Senate Democrats have not cosponsored the bill.

Throughout December of 2006, tensions began to flare between Ecuador and Colombia over the latter’s continued policy of sanctioning aerially-dispersed defoliants as a means to destroy narcotic crops along the two countries’ shared border.

As the Scottish nationalists stand poised to take power at Holyrood after 300 years of the UK union, it seems somewhat ironic that this week sees the release of a film called The Last King Of Scotland.

Over the past few days, major newspapers in the United States, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, have published editorials aggressively and harshly criticizing recent declarations and decisions made by re-elected President Hugo Chávez and his cabinet.

In the early morning of New Year's Day, the Six Nations people signalled a turning point in their history by removing the lock that barred the Haudenosaunee Chiefs from the building that was the seat of their government since before Confederation.

President George W. Bush’s paradoxical “new strategy” in Iraq is doomed by its own contradictions as much as by Iraqi and regional paradoxes and would in no time prove that the U.S. president’s go-it-alone approach will only extend the failure of the 2003 military invasion.

According to the dust jacket this book is "brilliant", has "uncommon insight", is "trenchant" and in the words of one writer the author is "one of the most creative and original thinkers of our time."

By any serious standard of journalism, impeachment should be in the news right now.  This illustrates the worst problem with our media.  It's not how they cover stories.  It's how they do not cover stories. 

Although the nuclear power lobby claims "we need all energy options," there is no need for the atomic choice when so many safe, renewable, alternatives are becoming economically feasible.

'The Attorney-General should issue a government health warning that capitalism seriously harms you and those around you', Graham Stevenson told the Communist Party executive committee at the weekend.

We have consolidated the success of the Left Front government set up in 1977, and we must give it a legal characteristic. Today 78 per cent of the land in Bengal is with the marginal farmers. There is no parallel instance in the whole of the country.

Dr. King’s views on militarism and war are especially important now when permanent war seems to be the only rhetoric coming from our national leaders. We can look into his words and deeds for guidance to recovering a saner and peaceful approach to equalizing our relationships with each other, other countries and groups of people around the world.

After Venezuela's Hugo Chavez told the United Nations he could smell the sulphur in the chamber where President Bush spoke the previous day, some angry Bostonians wanted to pull down the big CITGO neon sign in Kenmore Square, since CITGO oil is pumped in Chavez Country.

Traditional commercial carpet-cleaning solutions contain a cocktail of noxious synthetic chemicals. One, perchloroethylene, commonly called “perc” in the industry, is a notorious dry cleaning additive known to cause dizziness, fatigue and nausea if ingested or inhaled.

The contrast between the formidable possibilities to satisfy human needs generated by the development of the capacities of humankind, and the waste of material resources, lives and intelligence, is the dramatic paradox of this era.