More than two years after Hurricane Katrina caused a mass displacement of Gulf Coast residents, thousands of people, predominantly low-income Blacks, still struggle to return home.

More than 100 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, many family members of veterans, and experts gathered this weekend, Mar. 13 - Mar. 16, to testify about their experiences of the wars.

If you thought burning food for fuel -- agrofuels -- has been an unmitigated disaster, just wait until we start chopping up our last natural forest habitats for cellulosic ethanol biofuel.

The United States mainstream media is a major tool in the hands of the power elite; it constructs images of reality that are subsequently widely believed in by the masses, images whose definitions ensure that inequality will continue without revolt or redress.

For centuries, the idea that the Sun revolved around the Earth was unanimous. Ptolemy's old system – pretty new if we consider that other Greeks believed that in reality the Earth moved around the Sun – was the "vox populi" on cosmology.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts ~ not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution: Abraham Lincoln

I was disappointed that Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for "There Will Be Blood," not because he's not a great actor (he is), but because the movie was such a betrayal of the book on which it was based.

Media coverage of the presidential campaign has lately been dominated by discussions of videotaped comments made by Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

In a key briefing to Congress on 13 March, General William “Kip” Ward, head of the US Command for Africa, AFRICOM, devoted only 15 seconds of his four-and-a-half minute opening remarks to a possible humanitarian role.

ATLANTA – Two former editorial staff members of Georgia’s two largest circulation periodicals, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) newspaper and Creative Loafing (CL) magazine, have joined forces with Rick White, the public relations representative of the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA).

An upsurge in neo-nazi activity in Alberta is meeting increased resistance from community groups. On March 21, members of the fascist Aryan Guard are organizing a white supremacist "Pride" march from Millennium Park to Calgary City Hall.

Havana, March 13 (acn) The President and scientific director of Canada’s Terry Fox cancer research center, is in Havana to attend the 10th Marathon of Hope scheduled for March 15.

Following in the wake of the US invasion of Iraq, there have been some notable critical films - Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs, Paul Haggis's In The Valley of Elah and Nick Broomfield's Battle for Haditha.

Once again the pro-US media aided by sources in the prime minister's office and the ministry of external affairs are busy fabricating another "successful" step forward in the Indo-US nuclear deal.

t could have been an episode of ER or House: a popular patient battles against all the odds, survives a near-death experience, triumphs in the end but still faces challenges in the next episode.

Attached to the most clandestine US reactionary policies, the French organization ‘Reporters without Borders’ (RSF) announced with a great fanfare its “Online Free Expression Day,” that was supposedly supported by UNESCO.

Discussions have been going on inside NATO about intervention in Latin America and in every other corner of the world, even without a UN mandate. This discussion has come about because the conservative and imperialist political forces in Europe and the United States are faced with the sweeping changes that have taken place in many countries in the recent period.

When the head of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Neil Portnoy, applauded the Writers’ Union for its successful labor contract negotiations during the February 10th showing of the 50th Grammy Awards, millions of viewers saw a side of the industry rarely put forward.

After nearly a half century of service Admiral William J. Fallon resigned Tuesday from his post as top U.S. military commander for the Middle East because of growing publicity of his differences of opinion over Bush Administration policy on Iran.

John McCain's top campaign advisers lobbied for European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS), which recently won a lucrative Pentagon contract to replace Air Force tankers over fierce competitor Boeing, according to an Associated Press report yesterday, Mar. 11.