The intensification of fighting between the students of Lal Masjid and the Pakistani army has left hundreds dead and many injured.

In nine days, on July 17, 2007, Georgia may execute an innocent man, after both State and Federal Courts refused to hear the recanted testimony of 7 out of 9 witnesses in his case,.

Moving may be inherently unfriendly to the environment given that carting stuff around means expending lots of fuel and emitting a lot of pollutants, but there are ways to “relocate responsibly.”

Some residents of the mainly Shia Baghdad suburb of Sadr City are fleeing their homes - apparently scared of reprisals by US troops searching the area for militants.

Contrary to Philippine government claims, the mid-term May elections sounded a dirge to the Arroyo regime’s barbaric repression of its citizens and its subservience to U.S. imperial dictates.

For Janaan, 11, it is not important who killed his father, Shier Mohammad. He only knows that his father died during a clash in the Sangeen District of southern Helmand Province in March 2007.

Several of the nation's largest civil rights organizations representing communities of color unveiled a strategic plan for high school reform to a packed room on Capitol Hill.

British terrorist threat level set to highest. White House admits bombing Afghani women and children. Bush commutes sentence for FBI scammer and loyal patriot Scooter Libby. Reality sure sets the tone for Die Hard's latest.

In 1992 the Chilean Ariel Dorfman debuted his work Death and the Maiden. Although without specific references, the drama alludes to the years of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and the first years of the formal recuperation of democracy in Chile.

August 6, 1945, was a terrible day, in which the first atom bomb in history was dropped by the Truman administration on Hiroshima, Japan, to be a followed by another atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

The Kadima-led government of Israel is implementing a plan to block African refugees from entering Israel and forcing those inside the country to return to Africa.

Cubans are debating a new set of proposals to update the country’s Family Code to include the legal recognition of same-sex relationships and transgender people. Supporters are hoping that the National Assembly will approve the reform package later this year.

The Pentagon is intentionally underreporting US casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a recent report by veterans' advocacy group Veterans for Common Sense.

The mayors of the atom-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hibakusha (atomic-bomb survivors), and representatives of peace organizations on June 30 staged a protest against Defense Minister Kyuma Fumio’s remark that the U.S. atomic bombings on the two cities “couldn’t be helped.”

Morality based on empathy, rejection of unfairness (exploitation), and human solidarity (at least on the level of kith and kin) has been characteristic of our species when not overlaid by class struggle and class interest.

For many years now, the right wing in the US has used the term "politically correct" to caricature those who try to remove racist, sexist, militarist and other similarly motivated forms of speech from popular usage.

The four leaders at Sharm al-Sheik did not sit together at an intimate round table. Each one sat alone behind a huge table of his own. That ensured a striking separation between them.

Since the day I first realized that I was a Communist some thirty-five years ago, there have always been certain things I counted on to keep me in good stead.

Paris Hilton is free. Hooray! Sometimes it takes a traumatic experience to awaken the hidden self. The 23 days she spent at the Century Regional Detention Facility was far short of doing "hard time."

How to confront climate change, considered the greatest environmental challenge of the 21st century, was the important focus of discussion at the 6th International Convention on Environment and Development in Havana.