The House of Representatives yesterday (11-07-07) passed the Employment Non-discrimination Act (ENDA), an historic civil rights measure that would bar discrimination against workers in hiring, firing, or promotion based on sexual orientation.

On November 6, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-8 to send the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey to the full Senate for a vote to become the next U.S. Attorney General.

The liberal economist and New York Times op ed columnist Paul Krugman has just published a new book, THE CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERAL. It got a big write-up in The New York Review of Books by Michael Tomasky (11-22-07).

In opposition to the anti-terrorism special measures bill, constitutional revision, and consumption tax hikes, a rally was held on October 28 in Tokyo, in which some 42,000 workers and citizens took part from across the country.

Key Democratic electoral victories in Kentucky and Virginia this week – fueled mainly by labor movement volunteers – signal good things to come for working families in those states.

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) puts the number of Iraqi refugees in Lebanon at 50,000 people, of whom only 8,476 are registered. Another 500 are being held in prison, it says, merely for violating immigration rules.

The U.S. House of Representatives set the stage for what could be the first override of a President Bush veto Tuesday when Republicans and Democrats joined forces and voted 361-54 to approve a $23.2 billion water resources bill.

Tensions over U.S. killings of civilians in Iraq received another jolt with reports that American forces killed 17 civilians and wounded several dozen others, including old people and children, in Baghdad’s impoverished Sadr City neighborhood Oct. 21.

The draft treaty, an inextricable tangle designed to discourage any debate, takes no account of the reasons that led the citizens, two years ago, to vote "No."

Oil prices reached a record high Wednesday affected by the drop of the dollar compared to currencies like the Euro and sterling pound.

Always an artist with a good understanding of his craft, Bruce Springsteen once told an interviewer that he sees his live shows as part circus, part dance party and part political rally - an apt description of Magic, his fifteenth studio album

Jean Ziegler, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, said in Havana that the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba particularly affects the Cuban people’s right to food.

Though the Bush administration has been slow to even admit that global warming is a serious issue, and has rejected the terms of the Kyoto Protocol, more than 30 U.S. states have passed legislation and/or formed regional coalitions on their own to promote energy efficiency and reduce the emissions that cause global warming.

The Communist Party USA takes the occasion of the vote October 30 by the UN General Assembly against the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba to express solidarity with the Cuban people.

Events keep piling up that show how the aspirations of the US and European governments to reimpose colonial regimes in their lost empires are steadily unraveling.

The concept of boot camps as a substitute for long prison stints for non-violent or pre-adult felonies is an early ‘90’s phenomena. It came as a replacement for convicts who opted for the military as opposed to doing their time in a federal penitentiary.

The ongoing socio-economic and political ills that mar potential progress in Middle Eastern countries can largely be attributed to the ill-defined foreign policy of the United States.

It’s no secret that glossy coatings on magazine covers make pictures really “pop” and attract the eye, thus helping publications compete for attention on ever more crowded newsstands.

US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), also a US Presidential candidate for 2008, will force the issue of impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney on the floor of the US House of Representatives next week.