In the process of the presidential elections of 2005, Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad, referring to the increasing privation and poverty, promised to lead the society to social justice and reduce poverty and privation by putting the “oil money on people’s table.” Close to two years after these promises, a look at the critical economic situation of the country only shows that the “oil money” and the national wealth has been put on the tables of the big merchant-capitalists and their dependants.

Only an alliance of civilizations could oppose the United States’ empire: the Russian civilization whose orbit includes the Community of Independent States (CIS); the Chinese, the Indian, the Islamic and the Latin American civilizations.

Research has shown that in countries with a wide disparity between rich and poor, environmental protection tends to be a lower priority. The inverse is also true: Countries with greater economic equality assign higher priority to safeguarding their environment.

Wilfred Gibson, 42, former owner of a small landscaping company, Gibson Landscape Management, has filed suit against the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) for allegedly discriminating against his company and putting him out of business.

Bush is well known for his habit of awarding sensitive posts to old friends, as if the prime objective of the president of the United States is to protect the administration's secrets and rubber stamp whatever compulsive policies he and his self-serving neoconservative associates concoct.

I recently showed Citizen Kane, which many regard as the greatest American film of all time, to a summer school course on US history that I teach. The film, of course, was loosely based on the life of media Robber Baron William Randolph Hearst, war monger, red-baiter, and uncrowned king of "yellow" journalism.

Minneapolis-Saint Paul is the last place on earth I would have expected a "structurally deficient bridge" to collapse, but it happened. As sure as the levees broke in New Orleans, the bridge is no more.

Known within the packaging industry as expanded polystyrene (EPS) and usually bearing the “#6” recycling symbol, Styrofoam (which is actually the trademark name for Dow Chemical’s product) has long been an environmental bugaboo.

In a July 26th op ed piece in the New York Times, historian Jean Edward Smith made a suggestion as to what should be done if the current Supreme Court continues on its merry way, if it continues to follow what so many see as a conservative, even right wing, agenda...

Both Democratic-led Houses of Congress this week easily passed separate bills that would reauthorize the State Children Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) and provide new funding to cover at least an additional 3 million uninsured children under the popular 10-year old program.

Rice’s “Transformational Diplomacy” initiative mainly comes down to serving the Bush Doctrine, and leaves out a number of other areas of crucial strategic importance to long-term U.S. national interests.

The war has had grave consequences for the situation in the country and people's lives and for building democracy and the country‘s reconstruction. Iraqi Communists were therefore correct when they stood against the war, while rejecting the dictatorship and striving to overthrow it.

It was rather curious, that when Mr. Bush met with then Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, he expressed surprise that there were Black people in Brazil.

Members of VoterGA held a press conference to update the public on a pending seven-count lawsuit filed one year ago in Fulton County Superior Court over Georgia’s current electronic voting system and the State’s Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) Pilot Program.

OK, so you're rich and famous and have a drug problem. You relapse and get arrested. What do you do? It seems the latest trend in countering your likely conviction is not hiring a "dream team" of legal defenders but immediately enrolling in a rehab drug program.

I am overwhelmed by the response to "Sicko." And I'm not just talking about all the wonderful, heart-felt letters you've sent me and the stories you've shared with me about the abuse you've suffered from our health care system.

During the House and Senate debates on the Employee Free Choice Act, some of my friends got riled up by all the right-wing nuts attacking the EFCA because the Communists support it.

China has approximately 1.3 billion people or around 1/6th of the world's population living in one nation. The economy is growing at 10 percent per annum and the urbanization of China continues.

In the midst of news about political upheaval and war globally, I recently came across a news story about diabetes, a disease that killed my mother and threatens me along with millions of other Americans.

The Senate opened debate yesterday (July 31) on a bill that would reauthorize the State Children Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) and provide new funding to cover an additional 3 million uninsured children not already covered by the popular 10-year old program.