In Freedom Next Time, Pilger explores five countries, exposing the contradictions between the actions viewed by the people of the land and the words of rationalization supplied by the politicians.

The Assembly of First Nations calls on First Nations, Canadian citizens and corporations, to stand together to insist that the Government of Canada respond to the crisis in First Nations communities.

At the Gleneagles summit, in the stated interests of addressing the challenges faced by Africa, the G8 committed to provide debt cancellation to a select group of countries and to work towards making universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment available by 2010, among other targets.

By a 5-4 margin, the Supreme Court voted on May 29 to limit a woman’s right to challenge lifetime pay discrimination on the job. Supporters of equal pay said the ruling shows the need to change the law to let her sue for past lost wages.

In the autumn of 1940, whilst Vichy was organizing the collaboration, the nucleus of a resistance network was being formed. The French Communist Party (PCF) was secretly developing a Popular Front strategy for confronting the enemy.

On March 28, less than two months ago, when Bush proclaimed his diabolical idea of producing fuel from food, after a meeting with the most important U.S. automobile manufacturers, I wrote my first reflection.

Since the dawn of civilization farmers have saved the seeds spawned by their crops and re-planted them to grow more crops. Such is the natural science of agriculture that has provided food for thousands of years.

In the last few days, pretty much everyone has weighed in on the final passage of the supplemental appropriations bill for Iraq. And, with the exception of Harry Reid, who fatuously suggested that the bill represented “great progress,” everyone across the entire spectrum from President Bush to Counterpunch agrees that it was a miserable capitulation.

"Nothing succeeds like success," says a typical American adage. The Israeli version, also typical, is: "Nothing succeeds like failure."

If travel and trade between the United States and Cuba were to be normalized, the first five years of those relations would yield an increase of some $21 billion in goods and services exchanged.