Even before the full impact of revelations about the treatment of prisoners captured in Afghanistan hits home, recent polls showed that a majority of Canadians want to end our military role in that country.

It took 13 colonies to throw out the last King George. Thirteen state Democratic parties have now passed resolutions demanding impeachment, nine of them since Nancy Pelosi ordered the Democratic Party away from impeachment.

The glow of city lights blotting out stars in the night sky has frustrated many a stargazer, but recent studies have shown that “light pollution”--defined as excess or obtrusive light at night--can actually have serious health effects.

The 8th National Congress of the Iraqi Communist Party was held in Baghdad during the period 10- 13 May 2007, under the slogan “Let us consolidate the party ranks and work for uniting the people’s patriotic forces, to achieve security and stability, restore full national sovereignty, and build a unified democratic and federal Iraq.”

Another day, another impeachable offense. If this one were on a television show we'd all flip it off in disgust as too unlikely.

Open letter to congressional leadership...We recognize and applaud your escalating efforts to bring peace to Iraq and to bring our troops home.

The latest report of a world scientific panel on global warming has called for what amounts to a social revolution, one of the report’s authors said.

At the 6th Hemispheric Meeting in Havana, when the discussion turned to the subject of production of biofuels from foodstuffs, which are constantly getting more expensive, the huge majority voiced their opposition with indignation.

“The right has apologized for being right-wing for too long”, Nicolas Sarkozy explained over and over again to the newly seduced UMP militants who joined the party as soon as he took it over.

The ruling Liberal Democratic and Komei parties on May 14 used their majority to pass a bill to extend for two more years the period of the Self-Defense Forces deployment to Iraq through the House of Representatives Special Committee on Iraq.

Alexander Downer cannot stop grinning and jumping for joy. His puppet Ramos Horta has won the presidential election in East Timor and the oil companies can heave a sigh of relief in the knowledge that Horta will play along with them.

We are aware that most of the wars in the last few decades have been waged over control of energy sources. Both in central and peripheral nations, energy consumption is guaranteed for the privileged sectors, while the majority of the world's population does not have access to basic services.

May 9 marks the end of the war against fascism and Nazism in Europe in 1945. It will be largely ignored by the government and the media of Australia as it has been for a number of years.

The news that Rev. Jerry Falwell died yesterday at the age of 73 will doubtless be followed by any number of encomiums to this television evangelist who founded an organization he called the "Moral Majority," and who mounted a largely successful public relations campaign to make ultra-right politics synonymous with his brand of Christian faith.

Never before in U.S. history has an actual decline in the economic fortunes of workers across the board been so clearly the deliberate, planned result of public policies.

Afro-Colombian families displaced by the expansion of oil palm plantations, and by Colombia's paramilitary and military groups who protect the projects, have created squatter communities next to mangrove swamps at the edge of Tumaco, a coastal city in Nariño department.

Just months after Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Vélez’s landslide re-election in May 2006, some critics began pointing to ‘cracks in the pedestal’ of his popularity.

Reading David Brooks, the ultra-right New York Times op-eder, never fails to amuse. He is able to take the simplest facts and twist them around to such a degree that they come out looking like the exact opposite of what they really mean.

The Atlanta Housing Authority has agreed to a more thorough review process of each family in public housing who is noncompliant with work requirements before forcing them onto the streets.

Luis Posada Carriles is one of Latin America's most notorious criminals, a terrorist protected by the U.S. and allowed to live freely within its borders.