On January 6 in the Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the Persian Gulf, U.S. Navy ships were approached by five small speedboats, allegedly affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. After some radio communication, the Iranian boats turned away.

11 January marked the sixth year anniversary of the establishment of the Guantánamo detention camp. Mere months after the start of the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, a large cargo plane landed in a US military base in Cuba's Guantánamo Bay.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez proposed Wednesday the establishment of a regional integration mechanism to meet food consumption needs of Latin America.

The newswires announced it ahead of time. On January 6th we learned of Bush’s trip to the Middle East, just as soon as his very Christian Christmas holiday break was over.

The year 2008 began with utter market chaos in which New York crude oil futures hit a record high and stock prices in the United States and Japan plunged partly due to the soaring oil prices.

A visitor from another planet, attending the press conference in Jerusalem, would find it hard not to answer: Olmert is the president of the great power, Bush is his vassal.

Thus far in the campaign for the Presidential nomination, the media has, as usual, been focusing on the personalities of the various candidates, their hairstyles and their “experience” or lack of it, and of course any bickering they can foment between the candidates.

Many residents of Qalandia refugee camp, just outside Ramallah, felt more frustrated than excited by the recent visit of US President George W Bush to Israel and the West Bank. Others were simply apathetic.

According to the neo-conservatives of the United States, the new American dream seemed a reality. Money would lose its value. What was important would be credit. "Yours with no money down," "Buy a car and your home appliances now, and pay for them in five years."

First, let us turn to the current state of the Canadian economy which, according to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and most Bay Street analysts and sycophants, is humming along just fine.

City Council of Atlanta today approved two bills offered by Councilwoman Felicia Moore, District 9, to codify their oversight role in the Atlanta Housing Authority’s mass eviction and demolition plans for all remaining public housing.

While the race for the Democratic nomination for president has just begun, it's clear that the people, many of whom are first time participants in the process, are hungering for change and to put their mark on this election.

As Susan Faludi detailed in Backlash, the 1980s conservative revolt against the feminist movement quickly permeated popular culture—the movies we watched, the ads we were fed—reinforcing the sorry stereotypes the women’s movement sought so hard to diffuse.

It’s hard to believe, but the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., just ruled three Muslim British humanitarian workers and a religious pilgrim captured in Afghanistan and detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison, were non-persons and, therefore, torturing them was legal!

A class action lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) over lengthy delays for medical care and disability benefits can go forward, ruled a federal judge last Thursday in San Francisco.

According to the UN Refugee Agency, some 2.4 million people have been driven from their homes to other parts of Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003. In the same period, an estimated 2.2 million Iraqis fled to neighboring countries.

In March of 2007, hundreds of acres of land owned by the people of Emmet County in Michigan were taken out of the public-use domain and made available to for-profit enterprises.

Leading up to the New Hampshire primary, the storyline on the Democratic side was the disastrous state of the Clinton campaign. Her loss was a given; it seemed the only considerations were the margin of defeat and whether or not she would even continue running at all.

Amnesty International (AI) today called for the government of the United States to close the prison at the Guantánamo military base in Cuba and give the location of the 38 prisoners who are believed to be held in secret detention centers.

Carbon offsets are monies that consumers and businesses pay voluntarily to compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions they generate directly by driving, flying, running the air conditioning and otherwise using non-renewable energy.