Somebody just wrote a book about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. No it's not 400 blank pages, but it's co-written by Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher and much can be said about the timing of its release, only Thomas (rumored to be Black) won't say anything.

The Ronald Reagan library was the perfect location for the recent Republican presidential debates. The gruesome words of the Republican presidential candidates seemed to come from a séance communing with Reagan's departed spirit.

Six of nine non-police witnesses have recanted or changed their testimony over time since 1996 in a Georgia Death Row case, where Troy Anthony Davis of Savannah currently faces execution, but restrictive laws may prevent altered testimony to be considered in court.

In the wake of the first candidates' debate among the Democratic contenders for the White House (4/26/07), many media outlets and commentators seemed annoyed that the so-called "second-tier" candidates are even bothering to run.

The opportunist attempt at anarchism of the Bengal opposition and the corporate media, at Nandigram and elsewhere in Bengal, shall never be able to slow down, far from putting a stop to, the process of industrialization of the state.

Cuban President Fidel Castro warned Tuesday of the extreme poverty and other catastrophes threatening millions of people in the Third World, especially in Latin America.

So today we are entering a political context that is particularly serious and disturbing. Nicolas Sarkozy feels he can legitimately promote an ultraliberal agenda that is anti-union, generous to the rich, stigmatizing the poor, the unemployed, immigrants.

Print and television media coverage of Haiti since the early 1990s has been characterized by disinformation and deliberate omission of facts.

In the third consecutive defeat for the French left in a presidential election, NICOLAS SARKOZY has been chosen to lead France with a comfortable 53.06% of the vote, as the pre-election opinion polls had predicted.

The New York Times clearly believes that Americans' attention spans have been reduced to zero, and that we can now forget things even while they are still happening.

After the initial shock of the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding President Bush's abortion ban, it's time to acknowledge the full reality of the decision. According to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, the ruling is harmful to women's health.

On May Day immigrants and their supporters marched through the streets of Bridgeton, NJ, a small town with high unemployment, and a growing community of Latino immigrants.

Your friendly neighbourhood vigilante is back. This time, fighting to save New York from a trio of super-villains called Venom, Sandman and the Goblin. But the most important battle that Spiderman faces is with the dark side of himself.

An influential lawmaker in the new House Democratic majority urged advocates of government-run single-payer universal health care coverage to concentrate on kids’ care first.

Tucked away inside the the International Section of Thursday’s New York Times (5-3-07, page 14) is a small piece by Ian Austen in Ottawa (“Iraq Reconstruction Is Doomed, Ex-Chief of Global Fund Says.”)

The War of Terror the U.S. is inflicting on the Philippine people through its blanket support for Arroyo and the Philippine military and national police is also a War on the Poor...

By now, it’s not exactly a secret that the U.S. government has no consistent commitment to its universalist bombast about fostering democracy or even fighting terrorism.