The original idea came from living for a number of years in New York City and becoming aware of the fact that the Black community of New York has a high percentage of people from the former British West Indies, that is to say, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados.

In the event that John McCain is elected president, the stage soon could be set for a confrontation with the present Dominica leadership if it continues to follow an independent road.

Once upon a time there was a "guy" and a "girl." The unnamed boyishly handsome Guy (Glen Hansard) meets the beautiful Girl (Marketa Irglova) while playing for coins on the streets of Dublin.

The Japanese government and energy industry are trying to use nuclear energy as a “trump card” to fight global warming, advertising it as “clean energy” that does not cause CO2 emissions.

ATLANTA – The Bush Administration rolled out a $3.1 trillion budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2009 on February 4, 2008 that calls for increased spending on national defense and foreign aid, while calling for cuts in funding for key domestic priorities.

In yet more signs of changing times towards the political left is the election of Demetris Christofias as President of Cyprus and the smooth change in the leadership of Cuba. Both events took place last Sunday and both have their own significance.

The online activism group MoveOn.org has launched an “Iraq/Recession” campaign, aiming to “make sure that politicians and pundits understand what voters already know: As long as we keep pouring that money down the drain in Iraq, we won’t have the money we need to solve our economic woes.”

India's policies on defense-related acquisitions from abroad and production within India are believed to have been directed not only at ensuring India's security interests but also at promoting self-reliance and indigenous capability in this vital sector often involving advanced technologies.

Sen. John McCain tried to prove his ethical good standing Monday, Feb. 25, by claiming to have acted "exactly" like former Democratic presidential hopefuls Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt.

The most recent and failed uprising of opposition groups to the government of Chad is another episode in the drama lived by a people in one of the poorest nations on Earth.

With scores of doctors killed over the past few years, an exodus of medical personnel, poor medical infrastructure and shortages of medicines, Iraq's health sector is under great pressure, a senior Health Ministry official said on 26 February.

The outcome of this story couldn't have been more frustrating and unexpected for the enemies of the Cuban revolutionary process, nor more promising for its heroes: the Cuban people.

Honoring the life and contributions of actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson. Robeson stood for peace, equality, and civil rights. He was a champion for workers rights and social justice. Thank you, Paul!

Cuba's newly-elected President Raul Castro said Sunday that he would bring about changes in the country to make its government more efficient and economy stronger.

The Democratic National Convention will host 3,515 pledged delegates and 852 unpledged delegates from all over the country in Denver, Colorado, from August 25 through August 28, 2008.

Republican party politicos espouse an unflagging devotion to old-fashioned morality and family values, inveighing heavily against gay marriage, abortion, homosexuality, adultery, feminism, crime, stem-cell research, secularism, and liberalism.

"How about a thousand years of affordable health care?," asks Iraq war veteran Rose Forrest in a new TV ad produced by VoteVets.org in response to presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain's recent statements suggesting he didn't care if US troops stayed in Iraq for that period of time.

Anger is boiling up in Okinawa and across the country due to a recent rape of a junior high school girl by a U.S. Marine. Okinawa Governor Nakaima Hirokazu met with Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo and other government officials in Tokyo to lodge a strong protest.

Last year the UN declared that the struggle against climate change should not prevent developing nations from addressing their social and economic needs.

Strategy for a Black Agenda first came out in 1973. The book was and remains a fundamental contribution to the struggle. The issues that Henry Winston raised centered on the unity of the class and national questions.