Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800) as "a top priority" for House Democrats. Speaking at a news conference as part of a series of nation-wide events sponsored by the AFL-CIO, Pelosi said, "It’s time to restore the right of American workers to join a union without harassment from employers."

As any board or body surfer will tell you, the ocean’s tidal currents pack considerable wallop. So why wouldn’t it make sense to harness all that formidable power, which is not too unlike that of the rivers that drive hydropower dams or the wind that drives wind turbines, to make energy?

After separate meetings with President Bashar Assad of Syria, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei declared Muslim unity and resistance against US-Israeli conspiracies in the Middle East urgent matters for all Muslims in the region to rally around.

Former Guatemalan dictator General Jose Efrain Rios Montt, who prosecuted a Reagan administration-supported war of genocide against the Mayan population, on January 17, 2007 announced that he plans to run for Congress in September.

George Springer came to the United States as an immigrant from Panama. He came here to attend college in New Britain, Connecticut. In 1951 he wrote an insightful paper about the labor and anti-racist equality struggles of the Panamanian working class.

If only there were more Republicans like Clint Eastwood. Apart from his transformation from cowboy in Rawhide to spaghetti western star, he has become an award-winning film director and successfully contradicted his political persona.

Elizabeth de la Vega, a former federal prosecutor, has written a new best-selling book, US v. Bush, which includes a federal indictment against President George W. Bush and other top administration officials for conspiracy to defraud US Congress and the American people over the need to invade Iraq.

There may have been a period when all roads led to Rome, but for the Palestinian people, all roads lead to checkpoints. The latest checkpoint Palestinians find themselves at is not manned by Israel but rather the ostensible mediator of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the Quartet (which is comprised of the US, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations).

President Bush's tough talk with Iran, like his rhetoric prior to invading Iraq, is racheting up oil prices around the world and picking the pockets of American motorists.

Hundreds of lawmakers stood on the House floor this week to denounce President Bush’s decision to send 48,000 more combat and support troops to Iraq.

Con más de dos mil 200 sindicatos y cinco centrales gremiales, el movimiento obrero venezolano vive hoy un proceso de fragmentación que para muchos se contradice con los cambios en marcha en el país sudamericano.

Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Ichida Tadayoshi on February 19 criticized a US bipartisan group of experts for "moving to assist advocates of Japan's constitutional revision and further strengthen the Japan-U.S. military alliance" in its report on the Japan-U.S. alliance.

Lawyer Jose Pertierra, representing Venezuela in the extradition process to terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, said the US is still ignorant of his criminal actions and is only trying him for migratory crimes.

The configuration of the New Middle East — as envisaged by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Israeli war against Lebanon in July-August 2006, most certainly has no place for more than one regional power broker, namely Israel.

Atlanta’s CBS 46 News reporter Joanna Massee called the Gateway Center out for misleading her, and indeed, the public, in what was her second report on homeless women in Atlanta and the Gateway’s mass eviction policies, which aired last week.

Rather than submit disputes to international arbitration or have United Nations peace-keepers get involved, Bush, like his father before him and presidents Nixon and Johnson, the Viet Nam war-makers, prefers to take international law into his own hands.

“We are appalled by the announcement that the Federal Government has secretly agreed to set up a new USA base at Geraldton, in WA”, Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition National Coordinator Denis Doherty said.

President Bush has been witnessing the advent of a new bloc of left-leaning and sometimes robustly anti-American leadership that has sprung up in countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, among others.

The Bush administration is significantly ratcheting up its threats against Iran, in the context of arguing about a battle between “moderates” and “extremists” in the region.

The German film The Life of the Others (Das Leben der Anderen) has a one-in-five chance of winning an Oscar next week. The film is cleverly written, well directed and well acted. So, why do I hope that it does not win a valuable little statuette?