What would be less costly to taxpayers than the U.S. military industrial complex, but likely more effective in providing global security?

On the 4th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, Bush is pulling out all the stops to attack a House Democratic defense spending supplemental proposal, called the Iraq Accountability Act.

What is happening today in Latin America? First let us look at the facts. What Europeans and Latin Americans call “neo-liberalism,” that is the free” market capitalism and compete or starve policies.

The establishment of a united Palestinian government is an important step forward in the battle for Palestinian rights and for a just peace coming as it does when Israel is on the defensive and US policies in the region are in deep trouble.

Guestworkers who come to the United States are routinely cheated out of wages; forced to mortgage their futures to obtain low-wage, temporary jobs; held virtually captive by employers who seize their documents; forced to live in squalid conditions; and denied medical benefits for injuries, according to a new report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center today.

In its most recent editorial, The Nation calls for opposing the Democratic defense spending supplemental, also known as the Iraq Accountability Act, which would provide $124 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan tied to a timetable for withdrawal.

"Health care should be a right, and not a privilege," said Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) as he introduced legislation this week which would guarantee health care coverage for all of the nation's children.

Religious conflict, interlocking with economic and political disputes, vastly intensified their destructiveness. That was what led me to start working on this book, which came late in my career.

On March 9, The New York Times ran an obituary on Rufina Amaya who died at 64 in El Salvador, of a stroke, the previous Tuesday. We should all remember the ordeal experienced by Amaya at the hands of troops specifically trained by U.S. Special Forces.

In December, I finally made it to New Orleans for 12 days to help stop the war on the poor. And they sure need help! In both the lower and upper ninth ward most of the homes are still empty.

Major 2008 Democratic candidates for President of the United States–including Clinton, Edwards, Kucinich, and Obama–have already begun addressing health care in their campaigns.