On June 11, eight year old Hadeel Al-Sumairi was killed when her home in south eastern Gaza was shelled by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Less than a week earlier, eight year old Aya Hamdan Al-Najjar was killed by a rocket fired from an IOF helicopter.

Plans to store the majority of our nation’s spent nuclear fuel and other highly radioactive waste at a central repository underneath Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert 80 miles from Las Vegas were first hatched in the mid-1980s.

It is customary to run into brazenly racist commentary coming out of the U.S. liberals and right-wingers alike, especially when it comes to the question of oil.

John Grisham's latest thriller, The Appeal, is chilling. Corporate polluters attempt to buy a seat on Mississippi's State Supreme Court in order to overturn a jury verdict that has awarded victims of the company's negligent actions millions of dollars.

The new Russian President Medvedev traveled to China on his first visit abroad. Beyond the new announced cooperation agreements, which confirm the forward momentum of the commercial relations between China and Russia, the two countries also signed a joint statement on some important international issues.

The US is becoming more and more restless with the liberating winds that blow in Latin America. That was the reason the Pentagon decided to reactivate the Fourth Fleet and detach it to the Caribbean and the South American seas.

Five Palestinian landowners and human rights organizations Yesh Din and B'Tselem claim in first petition of its kind: Ofra is an illegal outpost built mostly on private land.

Despite the all the resources and political bullying and blackmail from both the the Irish and the EU establishments and a hostile mass media they overcame all of them and secured a victory for national democracy not just for Ireland but for all the peoples of EU.

The not so jolly green giant is back to battering the US military machine, which is still seeking to discover the secret that they believe will help them to produce an army of such mutant monstrosities.

Well, we set it up because I have finished two books. I have a book on Alice Neal that maybe you saw some reference to, and I just finished a novel that I started out for my grandson, years ago, and I finally completed it – it’s called Iron Mountain.

The blockade against Cuba, which was initiated some 40 years ago by the U.S., suffered a major setback this week as European Union leaders announced their intention to end their sanctions against the island country.

In the summer of 2005, the AFL-CIO convention in Chicago passed a groundbreaking resolution. After several speakers rose to argue vigorously for a “friendly amendment”, the convention called for the “rapid” withdrawal of US Troops from Iraq.

Thus begins a disturbing and racist article entitled “Don’t Expect Jacob Zuma to Fix South Africa” by Joel Hilliker, found in the March 2008 issue of the reactionary protestant periodical, The Philadelphia Trumpet.

In the wake of the widespread U.S. sub-prime mortgage crisis, speculative funds began to flow into the oil and grains markets, pushing up their prices. The trend is so powerful that it is very difficult to keep these moves under control. Observing this situation, some economic analysts are saying, “Capitalism is reaching its limits.”

The Communist Party USA rejects unequivocally the decision announced June 4 by a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that puts off freedom for five Cuban men who as of September 12 will have served ten years of unjust imprisonment.

One of the reasons behind the global upsurge in food prices was the diversion of land from foodgrain cultivation to biofuel production, which has been facilitated by high subsidies in countries like the US.

While talking down the likelihood of a serious financial crash in Australia, the federal government is taking a number of measures to equip it to bail out any financial institution in difficulties and to stave off panic if any such institution appears to be in trouble.

The idea that John McCain will pick up women voters who backed Clinton is "mythology" and a "pipe dream," said Ellen Malcolm, president of Emily's List, a women voter's organization that had strongly endorsed Hillary Clinton in the primaries.

Shortly after 10 a.m. on June 9, several thousand protestors from El Alto marched into La Paz and surrounded the US Embassy. The mainly indigenous protestors were demanding the return of ex-President Sánchez de Lozada and ex-Minister of Defense Sánchez Berzaín to Bolivia.

We can continue to believe our politicians as they echo messages of stability and order around our planet, and we can continue to feed off the BBC or the New York Times to get an insight into the normality of the global situation.