History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned and died for human freedom against political oppression and economic slavery.

On a commercial radio program broadcast on March 25, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shimomura said, “Although there were war nurses and war correspondents, there were no comfort women serving the Imperial Army. However, it is true that comfort women existed. I think it was a fact that some parents sold their daughters, but the Imperial Army was not involved in it.”

Giuliani pronounces the battle between the great ideas of our epoch as those between Roosevelt and Reagan. He chooses to be an instrument for destroying the advances of the New Deal.

For George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, 2008 is too soon to end a war that they intend to last forever. 2008 is too soon to stop constructing enormous military bases in Iraq and abandon them.

The Georgia Working Families Caucus (WFC) is the Georgia General Assembly’s newest legislative caucus, having officially formed this session “in order to develop and promote legislation and policies that invest in workers, families, and communities,” Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

That is not an exaggerated figure, but rather a cautious one. I have meditated a lot on that in the wake of President Bush's meeting with U.S. automobile manufacturers.

Autoworkers face one of their biggest challenges ever: how to fight in an era of globalization when companies threaten to move ever more production abroad to get the lowest wages and benefits possible.

For George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, 2008 is too soon to end a war that they intend to last forever. 2008 is too soon to stop constructing enormous military bases in Iraq and abandon them.

Congress steps up fight to end the war; NYPD spied on Bush protesters; Activists urge Congress to Protect Social Security; NOW Endorses Sen. Clinton; Hate Crimes Bill Introduced; Bush Administration Cause of Erosion of Civil Rights.

It was a combination party and antiwar rally the drew 200 or so mostly youthful participants who gathered in downtown Indianapolis at Monument Circle, the major public gathering place there, on Saturday afternoon, March 24, to commemorate and protest four years of war in Iraq.

There are more books about Muhammad Ali than Abe Lincoln: 300 titles in the children's section alone. You can also purchase The Muhammad Ali Reader, the Tao of Muhammad Ali, or the $10,000 G.O.A.T. - a massive coffee table book about all things Ali that is slightly larger than a typical coffee table.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is right to point Unitary Executive George W. Bush toward a copy of the Constitution. The President (should Bush care to resume that legal role) is permitted to veto bills but not to write them.

Flanked by international and regional non-Arab dignitaries representing the UN, EU, OIC, NAM and the leaders of Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan as well as the foreign minister of Iran, the leaders of the 22-member League of Arab States on Wednesday re-launched in Riyadh their five-year old Arab Peace Initiative.

The signing of agreements to sell food from the US state of Nebraska to Cuba confirms Wednesday the increasing rejection of that country΄s managerial sector of the economic, financial and trade blockade against the island.

American history as taught in the US frequently emphasizes that one of the by products of the Civil War between the states during the mid-19th century was the elimination of slavery. And students learn about the 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United States that made slavery illegal.

A closer look at the amendment, however, shows the prohibition against slavery to be far from absolute...

The people of the US, Britain, Australia and some other countries were rushed into the invasion and occupation of Iraq on a litany of lies — lies about weapons of mass destruction, that Iraq was preparing nuclear weapons, that it had relations with al Qaida, lies that it had an arsenal of chemical weapons.

First of all, I would like to thank both the CPUSA and NYU for this marriage – it is one, perhaps not made in heaven but no less celestial and lofty for that.

In the first 11 weeks of the 110th Congress, several pieces of progressive legislation, including the Employee Free Choice Act and an increase in the minimum wage, have passed in the House.

The House of Representatives took a huge step toward ending the war in Iraq last Friday by passing the Iraq Accountability Act, a bill that ties troop withdrawal to a White House funding request.

On March 20, student free speech joined the steady string of endangered fundamental rights ready to be stripped away from us due to the tragedy of the drug war.