As the Bush administration continues to push its alternative fuels agenda, it has become increasingly evident that corn-based ethanol could be as much the global villain as a boon to society.

The 8th National Congress has acquired special significance in our party's life, coming after 31 years of holding its last congress in the capital Baghdad (the 3rd Congress in June 1976).

In Michael Chabon's latest novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Meyer Landsman is a member of the Yiddish Policemen's Union by virtue of being a homicide detective at Sitka Central, in the Provisional Jewish Settlement in Sitka, Alaska. And he's at the end of his rope.

MARTA’s Board of Directors voted Monday to preserve the Paratransit Fare Structure for fiscal year 2008, ending a standoff between the Board and the disabled community over a proposed alteration to the Paratransit Fare Structure.

Within hours of the Senate vote to kill its comprehensive immigration reform bill, the lobbyist for software giant Oracle Corp. had already declared that Silicon Valley's proposal for more guest workers was still alive.

"Nothing personal sir, but your packages are not allowed on passenger airlines," said a United Parcel Service customer service agent, sitting in an American call centre. She was explaining to me that my package could not be delivered on an "early a.m." basis from Toronto to Peterborough.

On June 23, 1947, U.S. labor law turned upside down. That’s when the Republican-run 80th Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, by overriding a scathing veto by Democratic President Harry S Truman and over intense opposition from organized labor.

As the popular HBO series The Sopranos came to a close; and the show's stars made the rounds of talk & late-night shows, I found myself perplexed by America's fascination with this program.

The Sopranos had its last episode yesterday after being hailed for eight years as "television drama" at its best, winning award after award, as its absurd soap opera was hailed as "realism" and its caricatures praised as characters.

"Just because we volunteered, doesn't mean we volunteered to throw our lives away for nothing. You can only push human beings so far," Marc Train, 19, a soldier from America's heartland, stationed most recently in Fort Stewart, Georgia, says.

The Bush administration has no love for unions anywhere, but in Iraq it has a special reason for hating them. They are the main opposition to the occupation's economic agenda, and the biggest obstacle to that agenda's centerpiece - the privatization of Iraq's oil.

While CODE PINK welcomes the participation of men (and when I'm in DC I stay at the CODE PINK house), the group is organized around the idea that women have a special role to play in working for peace. So, every once in a while I ask a bunch of Code Pinkers "Why don't we have a group of Men for Peace?"

We now know that Bush's strange visit to the capital of Albania really happened. There he resolutely spoke in favor of independence for Kosovo without the least respect for the interests of Serbia, Russia and the various European countries, all sensitive to the fate of the province which was the scenario for the latest NATO war.

Upon the invitation of the Palestinian People's Party (PPP) & the Israeli Communist Party (ICP), an international conference was held in East Jerusalem during the period 02 - 04 June 2007, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Bush administration officials have strongly pressured the Iraqi government to adopt the privatization law, with several top figures making surprise visits to Baghdad to do so.

Comics have said everything George Bush knows about foreign policy he learned at the International House of Pancakes. That’s not quite true.

Compared with the other five countries, the U.S. appeared to deliver better preventive care; however, low scores on all other aspects of quality care pulled the overall quality of health care score down.

n this nevertheless fascinating critique of the exploitative and cynical toy industry, author Eric Clark, unfortunately, seems to have been drawn into more than a little admiration for the ruthless bosses who make it to the "top."

The appreciation and support that the LDF government received on the occasion of its first anniversary in office was overwhelming.