Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary Sicko.

The Prime Minster, the Defense Minister and the former Chief of Staff are still desperately trying to get out from under an avalanche of censure and condemnation that came down on them when the blue ribbon Winograd commission of inquiry gave the government and its leaders a failing grade for their performance during last summer’s war in Lebanon.

Atlanta Housing Authority’s (AHA) Board of Commissioners consists mostly of Members with ties to the real estate, construction, and banking industries.

Prime Minister Abe Shinzo visited Washington and held talks with U.S. President George W. Bush at Camp David on April 27. They met at a time when the U.S. Congress and media were increasingly critical of Abe’s remarks that “in a narrow sense” Japan had never coerced foreign women into wartime sex slavery.

Capitalism is preparing to perpetrate a massive euthanasia on the poor, and particularly on the poor of the South, since it is there that the greatest reserves of the earth's biomass required to produce biofuels are found.

In the 1960s radioactive gas emissions from nuclear plants caused public alarm. In 1973 the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania, USA, suffered an extremely dangerous accident, and in 1982 the nuclear power station at Chernobyl in the Ukraine suffered a catastrophic "meltdown," surely the worst environmental accident in human history.

Renowned antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan is considering a run for US Congress in 2008, Atlanta Progressive News has learned in the process of interviewing Sheehan about her upcoming rally in Washington, DC, this Mothers’ Day weekend.

In the wake of renewed government aerial bombardments in North Darfur, reported yesterday by United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Africa Action today stressed that civilians in Darfur remain acutely vulnerable to violent attacks in this ongoing genocide.

Previous art theory/history has taken certain routes to understand art that I think, always accidentally-on-purpose, bypasses the most crucial element that can make sense of it. This is the role of the Aesthetic State Apparatus (ASA).

The former colonies or neocolonies that had been promised a glowing future after World War II had not yet awakened from the Bretton Woods dream. From top to bottom, the system had been designed for exploitation and plundering.

We are trained to accept crumbs when our nation can really afford to provide the greatest healthcare system in the world to all of our people without spending an additional dollar.

Congresswoman and House Judiciary Committee Member Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) has spoken up in support of impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

You know you've arrived as a presidential candidate when the US Secret Service is offering their services. They're purpose in this regard is to make sure someone else doesn't arrive; your killer.

In further defiance of the international community the Mugabe government yesterday ordered police to assault lawyers who attempted to march in the capital Harare against unlawful interference with their profession.

Hardship in the daily life of the people continues to increase. The vast majority of people are facing intolerable economic distress, and the future shows no signs of brightening up.

In Wales, some 3,700 electors – one voter in every 200 - supported the Communist Party of Britain regional lists despite the party's limited campaigning in many areas where it has little or no organization.

The race tax is alive and well in Bush's America according to a story in today's news. African Americans pay higher car loan rates than whites.

Jose Antonio “Toñin” Llama, the Cuban-American National Foundation leader who made headlines months ago when he revealed how he was cheated after investing millions in an anti-Cuba terrorist conspiracy, has just confirmed to The Miami Herald that he participated in meetings of Miami groups where plans were made for the bombing attacks that occurred in Havana throughout 1997.

May 8 marked the 34th anniversary of New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws. On this day Jim Jones the hip hop superstar released his new rap single and video titled "Lockdown, USA," a powerful song calling for real reform of the laws.

So we have recently been reading about all that contaminated cat food (also dog food and feed for some other animals) that had to be recalled because it was full of Chinese wheat gluten.