Just because that old shirt you used to love is too threadbare to wear anymore doesn’t mean it has to end up in a landfill. “Consumers don’t understand that there’s a place for their old clothing even if something is missing a button or torn,” says Jana Hawley

The Georgia House of Representatives approved an amended bill Wednesday, March 20, 2008, that would allow a non-unanimous jury to hand down the death penalty. However, the Georgia Senate successfully stripped the controversial amendment on Thursday, March 21, 2008.

When Admiral William J "Fox" Fallon was chosen to replace General John Abizaid as chief of US Central Command (CENTCOM) in March 2007, many analysts didn't shy from reaching a seemingly clear-cut conclusion: the Bush administration was preparing for war with Iran...

According to historical evidence, the slave trade was responsible for the alarming underdevelopment of Africa today. Slavery caused ethnic fractionation and undermined states constituted as such.

Recent attacks by militias and Sudanese government troops on West Darfur villages in which scores of people were killed and thousands displaced, violated international humanitarian and human rights law, the UN said.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 19MARCH08 - Thousands march and demonstrate in San Francisco to oppose the war in Iraq, on the fifth anniversary of the start of the war.

Peter Sprigg, vice president of policy at the Family Research Council, discussed the group's opposition to the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) saying "I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe homosexuality is destructive to society."

“I never looked at the primaries before, but this year they got my notice,” a former factory worker now stuck in a low-wage health care job exclaimed to me recently. She stays glued to the election news on TV whenever she can.

The statistics cited by the above commentators and many others show that racial prejudice among white residents of the United States has in many respects declined markedly in the past 20, 30 or 40 years.

Though the president’s party, the union for the popular majority (UMP), attempted to minimize the significance of the results at first, it is now clear that the blow has struck home.

Following the successful launch of its Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign with events across the nation, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) activists are participating with a broad range of groups at events commemorating the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

In a major speech on Mar. 17, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton laid out her plan for changing course in Iraq and to bring US troops home.

But for the demutualisation of Northern Rock, their jobs would have remained secure, providing mortgages on the basis of secure income rather than opting for higher profits on the basis of an ultimately unsustainable practice of borrowing short and lending long.

The videos below show exactly how much fun it can be to interrupt the day of war profiteering oil barons and educate the public about an occupation that we said six years ago would be blood for oil and that we say now is blood for oil.

It is inevitable that in the next few days the Pentagon will announce the 4,000th U.S. military death in Iraq. But as the Iraq War begins its sixth year, a significant number of deaths connected to the invasion have remained off the books, uncounted by the U.S. military and seldom noticed by the media.

The FBI appears to be investigating Bear Stearns along with 16 other companies involved in the subprime mortgage crisis for criminal misconduct, according to suggestions made by FBI agents in recent media reports.

While thousands of people in big cities and small communities around the country staged protests on the 5th anniversary of the launch of the Iraq war, the presidential candidates attempted to present distinctions among their various positions on the war.

In this short volume, Helen Caldicott and Craig Eisendrath provide a sharp and concise analysis of the American nuclear weapons industry and its many ramifications for society and the peoples of the world in general.

When a company has a whopping $2 billion debt and the markets believe it is worth only $1 billion, they act. And that is what happened to ABC Learning Centres and its CEO Eddy Groves.

The Georgia State Supreme Court ruled 4-3 Monday, March 17, 2008, to deny a motion for a new trial for Troy Anthony Davis, who claims he is on death row for a crime he did not commit.