Washington, DC -- On Wednesday, March 19, 2008, the U.S. occupation in Iraq will enter its 6th year. To mark this tragic anniversary, over 30 peace and justice organizations are uniting their efforts, under the umbrella of United for Peace and Justice, in an unprecedented day of coordinated nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience.

Leather is everywhere—from shoes and belts, to purses, wallets, jackets, furniture and car seats. Most probably assume that the leather that finds its way into our wardrobes and living spaces is a byproduct of the meat industry.

Although it may not have been the purpose of the authors of a recently published book on Cuba-Canadian relations, it is a good example of what could have been and still can be ties between the United States and Cuba.

With voters in the 41 primaries and caucuses so far this election season regularly listing health care high among their most important issues, the call for universal health care has been moved to the center of the public debate.

It is always good to know as a citizen that your leaders think everything is under control, for this reason I can only begin to imagine the relief people in the United States must feel when President Bush publicly acknowledges; "I believe that our economy has got the fundamentals in place.”

"This could be the start of a war in South America", Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez warned after Colombian military forces massacred members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) inside Ecuador.

Does former President Bill Clinton want to become a drug policy reform advocate? On its face, it would seem that way following President Clinton's keynote speech at the University of Pennsylvania last week commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Kerner Commission report that addressed the causes of racial disturbances in the 1960s.

For the third time in the last few weeks, Die Linke (the Left, as the new party is called) has made an entrance into the Parliament of one of Germany’s western "Länder".

From 27 February to the afternoon of 3 March, 106 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip. Contrary to the Chief of Staff’s contention that ninety percent were armed, at least fifty-four of the dead (twenty-five of them minors) did not take part in the hostilities.

(APN) ATLANTA – Even though the transfer of power between the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority (FDHA) and the new Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation (GMHC) may appear to be a done deal, members of the Grady Coalition say they are going to keep fighting for Grady Hospital, its patients, and its workers.

In surveying US press coverage of the recent tensions between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela one might come to the conclusion that Colombia has become the victim of the wrath of its’ evil next door neighbor, Hugo Chavez.

In his most recent op-ed in Solidarity magazine titled "It's time for a change," United Autoworkers (UAW) President Ron Gettelfinger fired both rhetorical barrels at George W. Bush and John McCain.

Ecuador´s Justice Minister Gustavo Jalkh, asked Colombia's aggression to his country be addressed by the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.

On Saturday, the Colombian air force attacked a FARC camp site in Ecuador, a mile from the Colombian border resulting in the death of Raul Reyes (Luis Edgar Devia Silva), the second in command of the FARC, and seventeen other members of his unit.

SpyGate is the sports scandal du jour. It centers on the New England Patriots surreptitious videotaping of the New York Jets last September and the subsequent destruction of the evidence by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

As one of the famed theoretical architects of the so-called "War on Terror," and of the subsequent US invasion of Iraq, Francis Fukuyama’s much celebrated postmodern, even in some respects deconstructionist, notion of the "End of History" repeated in a kitsch fashion that which others have already repeated of the philosopher Hegel, who said it far more eloquently a long time ago.

A Feb. 28 endorsement by right-wing religious television personality John Hagee has earned Republican presidential hopeful John McCain renewed criticism from both the left and right for appearing to embrace the sharply bigoted Hagee has staked out over the years.

Although the South African government's Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is on track to achieve its main objective of creating one million jobs for the poor by 2009, significant and sustained poverty alleviation is unlikely, according to an independent review of the project.

DETROIT – South Africa is at a crossroads, said Political Affairs Editor Joe Sims here at the Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery, Mar. 1.

Two women Communist candidates are on the ballot for Alberta's March 3 election. In Edmonton Mill Creek, Naomi Rankin is on the ballot. Bonnie Collins is the Communist candidate in Calgary East, where she has lived for nine years with her spouse and their four children.