Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has authorised the country to break the patent on an AIDS drug made by Merck & Co – importing a generic version from India instead.

As cellphones proliferate they are giving computers and monitors some competition for the dubious distinction as the largest contributor to the world’s growing e-waste problem.

The recent FDA debacle over the discovery of the toxic chemical melamine in pet food from China should remind us all that cheap goods, whether animal feed, denim jeans or the latest electronic gadgets, have a price attached.

The undersigned organizations write to urge you in the strongest possible terms to respond to President Bush's veto of the supplemental appropriations bill with a stronger bill, not a weaker one.

The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest US military site in Europe, but the people of Vicenza, and all of Italy, have sworn it will never happen.

Countries should abide by the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) obligations during the course of peaceful use of nuclear energy, a Chinese official said here on Tuesday.

Kevin Cooper is a sports fan. Kevin Cooper loves the Steelers. Kevin Cooper makes his home on death row at the notorious San Quentin Penitentiary in California. Cooper awaits execution for a crime many observers are convinced he did not commit.

While the Bush administration denounces Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez for “terrorism” and non-cooperation with Washington on a whole range of issues, it is Bogotá and certainly not Caracas which should be seen as South America’s most perfected rogue nation.

Innocent and executed: the death penalty in America; A plan for Medicare for at least some; Are Republicans abandoning Bush?; Can environmental sustainability create economic growth?

Statements made by former New York City Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani during the 2008 presidential campaign on issues such as Iraq, terrorism, and foreign policy have been essentially to endorse and completely embrace the Bush doctrine without providing any policy specifics of his own.

The Page Turner (French, subtitled), directed by Denis Dercourt, is an understated thriller that spins a tale of class-based terror so gut-wrenchingly genuine that this reviewer can not believe it is not marketed as first-rate social commentary.

On Tuesday, March 6, 2007 ICE agents in a show of repressive force swooped down on a New Bedford, Massachusetts manufacturing plant and arrested 361 undocumented workers.

We here at Political Affairs have been pointing out the danger of right-wing ideology since our founding. In the neoconservative resurgence that began with Reagan and culminated with George W. Bush, Political Affairs has long warned against the militaristic and imperialistic urges deeply rooted in right-wing ideology.

Defying President Bush's stubborn refusal to change course in Iraq, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Congress would provide no "blank check" for a failed Iraq policy without "benchmarks, guidelines, or standards."

The Winograd Commission appointed by the government to examine shortcomings during the prosecution of the recent war in Lebanon, issued a report this week thoroughly condemning the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and the former Chief of Staff for “serious failure” and “rash decision making.”

I hold nothing against Brazil, even though to more than a few Brazilians continuously bombarded with the most diverse arguments that could well confuse even people who traditionally have been friendly to Cuba, we might sound callous and careless about hurting that country’s net income of hard currency.

It took thirteen seconds. In these thirteen seconds, four young people died, and nine others were maimed. But now, thirty seven years after shots were fired by National Guardsmen at Kent State University in Ohio, a newly disclosed audiotape may put new perspective on the events of May 4, 1970.

Gray makes an important point early on in his article, and that is, that if evolution is correct, then the human capacity for morality must have come about “in some part from evolutionary processes.”

Presidential fundraising stats issued last week revealed some interesting and surprising trends with Senator Obama leading the pack in contributions coming from Wall Street. Giuliani was a close second, with Clinton a hair behind.

In our time, May Day, the international holiday of the labor and socialist movements, developed out of labor's struggle against exploitation and socialism's dedication to the regeneration and empowerment of the working class.