As a result of the surge in military activity on its western border with Afghanistan, Pakistan is currently in deep waters politically. The present predicament is the direct result of continued subservience to the United States by the Pakistani civilian and military establishment.

Originally the brainchild of Lebanese-born entrepreneur/inventor Nicolas Hayek of Swatch watch fame, Smart Cars are designed to be small, fuel-efficient, environmentally responsible and easy to park—really the ultimate in-city vehicle.

Contrary to its ideology of capitalism and market economy, the US government has, by force of circumstances, taken control of two heavily loss-making American mortgage companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, on September 7, 2008.

Dallas Mavericks All-Star Josh Howard has been raked over the coals of public opinion this week for daring to say what more than a few athletes think. He was caught on someone's cell phone camera saying that he doesn't stand for the national anthem.

The air of pride and dignity being breathed in Cuba in the days following the onslaught of a succession of atmospheric phenomena that swept through the Cuban archipelago in less than three weeks can only be compared with the air breathed here after the revolutionary victory at Bay of Pigs in 1961.

The week of September 15, 2008 has been a dramatic and unprecedented period in the world of high finance. The economic crisis is not over despite what some pundits and politicians have claimed. A series of government interventions have changed the map of banking and finance.

Linking the financial crisis on Wall Street to the economic struggles of working families, Barack Obama, in a speech today, Sept. 19th, in Miami, Florida, called for "even bolder and more decisive action" than the Bush administration has been willing to take.

It's easy to become apocalyptic contemplating the vast sums of wealth being destroyed in the unfolding financial crisis gripping Wall Street. The economic tsunami unleashed there will soon reach every corner of the nation.

The ACLU of Michigan, and other organizations, filed a lawsuit in a federal court this week on behalf of a student organization, seeking an immediate injunction against what it calls illegal voter purge programs conducted by the Michigan Secretary of State, Terri Lynn Land.

The labor movement sharply criticized the Bush administration's and John McCain's responses to the failure of two major US financial institutions this week.

On September 18, 2008 Human Rights Watch released a report entitled “Venezuela: Rights Suffer Under Chávez.” The report contains biases and inaccuracies, and wrongly purports that human rights guarantees are lacking or not properly enforced in Venezuela.

Since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993, the U.S. Congress has debated and passed several new bilateral trade agreements with Peru, Jordan and Chile, as well as the Central American Free Trade Agreement.

As the 2008 presidential campaign continues, the question of “experience” has been put forward as major issue. First, Hillary Clinton used it against Barack Obama during the Democratic primaries, and then the Republicans took up the issue after Obama secured the nomination.

The number of confirmed cases of cholera has risen to 107 in central and southern parts of the country, a Health Ministry spokesman said on 16 September.

The Shadow Man is a kind of classic haunted house story, but one very much driven by contemporary and edgy characters, which is what I think makes it fresh and different. My female protagonist, Maggie, is a Latina. She is a single working mother who inherits this strange toxic house...

The ruling Liberal Democratic and Komei parties agreed on September 9 to introduce in the upcoming Extraordinary Session of the Diet a bill to allow the Maritime Self-Defense Force to continue to engage in the refueling mission in the Indian Ocean.

“The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday, with the full support of the Treasury Department, authorized the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to lend up to $85 billion to the American International Group (AIG)”, said the Federal Reserve in a press release.

According to Department of Veterans Affairs data, 56,000 veterans live in VA facilities. Most of them are ineligible to vote, typically because, as a result of the Help America Vote Act, state voting laws nullify their existing voter registration when they move from their home residence to live in a VA facility.

In the same week that the US stock market has crashed hundreds of points due to the failure of two major US banks, the Obama campaign took time to point out the flaw in John McCain's Social Security privatization scheme.

Declassified U.S. documents show the possibility that U.S. nuclear-powered submarines may have discharged radioactive liquids in Japan's territorial waters for 44 years since their first visit to Japan.