Despite its weakened position, the Bush administration with the assistance of the Republicans in Congress continues to be the main obstacle to social progress and to a speedy exit from Iraq.

We the undersigned are shocked that the state of Texas aims to execute Kenneth on August 31 for the "crime" of driving a car. His 10-year-old daughter will live without a father because of a law obscene in its existence, and repellent in it's application.

As for bottled water, it is first important to know that 25 to 30 percent of it comes straight from municipal tap water systems, despite the pretty nature scenes on the bottles that imply otherwise.

Hermilo Lopez, a Mixtec immigrant from San Juan Mixtepec, Oaxaca, works in a crew picking bell peppers. He's 61 years old.

Freedom, perhaps, may be the main differential characteristic of art. And when this freedom does not turn its face away from the tragic reality of its people, then the characteristic turns into moral consciousness.

US Reps. Hank Johnson (D-GA), John Lewis (D-GA), and David Scott (D-GA) have each signed on a new letter, joining 67 others Members of Congress in promising they will not support any more funds for the US occupation of Iraq.

The question of how the Constitution defines Congress' power to tell the president how to deploy military forces is often raised in current debates about how and when to end the war in Iraq.

I think the peace movement played a very significant role in making the war in Iraq a top issue in the 2006 elections, and I think the peace movement is going to play a crucial role in keeping Iraq the top issue in the 2008 election.

The Iraq war, health care, the Big Three auto negotiations, immigrant rights, racism, equality and the 2008 elections were the main topics considered in the meeting.

As we go to press the national media reports of a dangerously disturbing development that India is to launch an Israeli spy satellite called Techsar (ToI, July 18). Once launched this satellite will be completely under the control of Israeli military.

Iraq is rich with a variety of natural resources, in the forefront of which is the enormous oil wealth, that is the real nerve center of the political and economic life of both Iraq and the world.