Whether you’re a consumer in search of green products and healthy organic foods, an environmental advocate looking to network, or a businessperson who wants to “green up” operations, there is an environmental event out there for you.

Venezuela's Energy Minister, Rafael Ramirez, characterised a series of court orders obtained by Exxon Mobil Corp. in Britain, the Netherlands, and the Dutch Antilles, freezing up to $12 billion in assets of Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA, as "judicial terrorism."

It is an adventure story, the kind one imagines young boys pour through and reenact on boring summer afternoons. Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road, an enormous departure from his previous books, follows the exploits and travels of two companions in Middle Ages Central Asia.

At its midwinter meeting last week, the U.S. Conference of Mayors called on Congress to reform the Federal Housing Administration so it will give more help to troubled borrowers, and to increase funding to help borrowers and neighborhoods hard-hit by soaring mortgage foreclosures.

Libero Della Piana, Chair of the New York State Communist Party, speaks about the radical legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Della Piana references King's famous "Beyond Vietnam" Speech made at The Riverside Church in Manhattan on April 4, 1967 where he called for "revolution of values" and an end to the U.S. war in Vietnam.

I was willing to be wowed by Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel Oil! which has been hailed as a masterpiece by the US media.

In his final State of the Union address to Congress on January 28, U.S. President George W. Bush devoted much of his time to the Iraq issue and said that the deployment of an additional 30,000 U.S. troops last year brought a success to the military operation in Iraq.

Despite the pundits who predicted that February 5th would determine the 2008 Presidential nominees, neither the Democratic nor Republicans have a clear nominee at this point.

I may be a United States Senator and a candidate for President and the Republican frontrunner. But I am, more importantly (assuming you'll take my word for it) a man who has been tortured.

Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has attacked a federal government plan, championed by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, that would mandate "clean feed" filtered internet connections to all homes and schools.

The recent opening of an exhibition and related events celebrating his life at the time of his 110th birthday is not earth-shattering, but certainly a welcome remembrance of a man who is beloved by his community but largely forgotten by American society.

Rich countries preach free markets and free trade to the poor countries in order to capture larger shares of the latter's markets and preempt the emergence of possible competitors.

Solidarity flourishes the more adverse our external reality gets. Somehow during hardship, as humans we have an innate intuition which draws us closer to each other. Sure, it seems unreal in a time of such consequential conflict in the global society we are constructing, to be talking about fraternal unity.

The first thing to talk about is the tremendous excitement and engagement of people in this election. Voter turnout is breaking records. People went to vote in the primaries almost as if it were the general election.

Last fall, Clinton supporters predicted that last night Feb. 5 would cement their candidate's position as the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. With commanding leads in both the national polls and most state polls, Hillary Clinton seemed inevitable.

Last week the Communist Party USA launched its presence on YouTube with five new videos.

When John Edwards announced that he was suspending his bid for president, he said that he was proud of his campaign's contribution to the presidential debates and its influence on the other Democratic party candidates.

Indonesia's former dictator General Suharto has died in bed and not in jail, escaping justice for his numerous crimes in East Timor and throughout the Indonesian archipelago.

In a city of 100,000 people, you can call 300 each night. You'll talk to a dozen. Maybe one will commit to voting for your guy. The people of this city will grow to hate your voice, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.

The City Council of Atlanta voted Monday, February 4, 2008, 10-5 to override Mayor Shirley Franklin’s veto of a resolution that asks the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) to consider putting on hold the demolition of Bankhead Courts, Bowen Homes, and Hollywood Courts.