The far reaching financial crisis which began in August 2007, Horne contends, encourages the foreign creditors of the U.S. to turn their dollars into “investment funds” to in effect acquire U.S. assets. This in a truly remarkable role reversal leads to U.S. private firms being controlled by foreign governments.

Activists plan to protest a federal appeals court ruling Wednesday to uphold the convictions of five Cuban intelligence agents accused of spying in the United States.

Prof. Gilbert Achcar of the School of Oriental and Asian Studies in London has made a unique contribution to the ongoing “one-state or two-states” debate in a recent wide ranging interview to Mesele, a progressive periodical in Turkey.

Praising Sen. Hillary Clinton's long record of fighting for equality for LGBT people, Obama for America Deputy Campaign Manager Steve Hildebrand extended a warm welcome to LGBT supporters of the New York Senator on a conference call June 6.

Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo at the 4th International Conference on African Development held in Yokohama City (May 28-30) promised to double Japan’s Official Development Assistance volume for Africa to 200 billion yen within the next five years.

A new UN task force on the food crisis is analyzing the situation in at least 45 affected countries to help develop action plans to meet urgent and long-term needs, said John Holmes, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.

Native Americans and others are about half-way through their journey along the Chattahoochee River, to walk and give thanks to the river.

About fifty heads of state gathered before cameras from all over the world : the reason why the summit of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization that opened in Rome yesterday is arousing so much interest is that it comes at a time when mankind is confronted with a tragic situation.

Georgetown, Jun 5 (Prensa Latina) Caribbean officials and businesspeople will meet in this capital of Guyana on June 6-7 to discuss about two dozen proposals to be presented to investors in order to attract them to put their money into food production in this region.

An Iraqi parliamentarian told a congressional committee June 4 that as many as 70% of Iraqis want the US military to leave their country.

Between 700,000 and one million jobs in the service sector face the chop in the biggest off-shoring of Australian jobs in our history, according to a comprehensive analysis of Australian labour market trends.

As much as 15 billion to 20 billion U.S. dollars would be needed yearly to help fight the food crisis amid soaring prices, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said here on Wednesday.

Cuba stressed in Rome today that hunger and malnutrition are the consequences of an international world order that maintains and deepens poverty, inequalities and injustice.

Biofuel is in the dock at the global food summit in Rome this week, with counties divided over whether it is the villain behind food insecurity, or the cheap energy of the future.

Three days ago, on 1 June, Hadeel Abu Kwaik was sitting in her computer lab at Al-Azhar University in Gaza looking worried, and perplexed. Today, having just been told her Fulbright scholarship has been reinstated, she says she is “Happy but still worried. I’m still not sure we will [all] be able to leave for the US.”

The New Deal government represented new forces and politics. It operated through the Democratic Party. It made the Democrats as a party the majority party of the country, something they had not been since before the Civil War.

"Sen. McCain’s record shows he’s in lockstep with President Bush and the Administration’s corporate allies," said AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker in a press statement today responding to John McCain's June 3rd speech in Louisiana.

Caracas, Jun 4 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela expressed suspicion Wednesday of a hearing for terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in US that could be followed by a pardon and evasion of his extradition.

Barack Obama was right; working Americans are bitter. "More than half of US workers say the American Dream is unattainable and nearly half blame the political system for the deterioration in their economic circumstances," according to a new Zogby International survey released last week.

With the final two primaries in South Dakota and Montana, Barack Obama secured the nomination of the Democratic Party. It is the first time an African American candidate has been nominated for a major political party in the US in its history.