The free trade agreement which the George Bush administration signed with Colombia is stalled in the US Congress and could face further delays because of the alleged links of the Colombian President Alvaro Uribe administration with paramilitary forces.

The polls are showing that the Howard Government and even Howard himself could be defeated in the Federal elections due in the second half of this year.

Bush administration officials are censoring top scientists on global warming. This is part of an effort to deceive the public about its effects and to block policies aimed at controlling it.

How often have we been told that when fascism comes to the USA it will be wrapped in the American flag and spouting patriotic slogans and speeches? I don't want to suggest that that day is near.

Days before an African peacekeeping force is deployed in Somalia, violence has spiralled in the capital, Mogadishu, forcing hundreds of families to flee the city and set up temporary camps on the outskirts.

Nobody should be fooled. Washington still has the huge bone of Daniel Ortega’s victory in the November presidential elections stuck in its throat.

Two articles in the recent issue of the US periodical, Dissent, set out to ridicule the utter folly and opportunism of the left in relating to its traditional enemy, Islamic fundamentalism.

“The rich are gettin’ richer on the backs of the poor, and we won’t take it anymore,” homeless advocate and folk singer, Lynn Griever, sang, at the Trinity United Methodist Church, as about 250 working class people and advocates met for the 37th Annual Poor People’s Day.

The phrase Strange Liberators, as many may know, comes from Martin Luther King's famous speech against the U.S. invasion of Vietnam at the Riverside Church in New York in 1967.

All-too frequently I encounter activists who don’t like to talk about money. While they crusade loudly for “economic justice”, they resist talking about their own relationship with money as if it were somehow an X-rated topic on par with sexuality or bathroom habits.

The industrial policy of the Bengal Left Front government is meant to accelerate development of the state – the rural poor in particular – and it will benefit from the rapid strides made in the realm of industrialisation.