Last week the major economies of the world, including the US, European Union, China, Russia and Brazil, carried out an unprecedented and coordinated reduction of interest rates in an effort stabilize the global financial crisis. The effort itself was not immediately successful.

In an op-ed posted Tues. Oct. 14th, titled "Obama and Acorn," the Wall Street Journal's editorial board attempted to link Barack Obama to the activist group ACORN, and by association to recent false allegations that ACORN engaged in deliberate voter fraud.

A preliminary report released earlier this month by Veterans for America (VFA) held Gov. Sarah Palin in no small part responsible for enormous difficulties faced by Alaska National Guard members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

To the tune of tens of millions of dollars, multinational retail giant Wal-Mart has been funding a right-wing political agenda, according to the Web site WaltonInfluence.com.

As the Dow Jones dropped to nearly 8000 last week, losing around 30 percent of its value since the crisis began, John McCain continued to campaign against Bill Ayers, a "weather man" of four decades ago.

Believe it or not, condominiums may be some of the most environmentally responsible housing out there today, especially since more and more developers are paying attention to sustainability from the get-go.

In the first presidential debate John McCain professed love for veterans and insisted, "They know I'll take care of them." But his record is making many veterans doubt the basis for that claim.

Much has been written about Bob Dylan's life and work, and much of it is very good. From Christopher Ricks' investigation of Dylan's "Visions of Sin" to Mike Marqusee's look at his protest songs in the 1960s and Clinton Heylin's biographical work – not to mention Dylan's own autobiographical "Chronicles" – we have come to learn a great deal more about one of our age's great voices.

A US journalist says that in the Cuban city of Bayamo, "a communist experiment is letting average government workers in this eastern city enjoy a few things that only foreigners and moneyed Cubans can usually afford: a good burger, a kicking jazz bar, and stiff cocktails."

So-called “ocean deserts” or “dead zones” are oxygen-starved (or “hypoxic”) areas of the ocean. They can occur naturally, or be caused by an excess of nitrogen from agricultural fertilizers, sewage effluent and/or emissions from factories, trucks and automobiles.

Nearly 750 Christian families, about 3,750 individuals, have fled their homes in Mosul, a city about 400 km north of Baghdad, as Sunni Muslim extremists have increased attacks against this religious minority since 4 October,

ATLANTA - On September 8, 2008, Judge Michael Johnson heard the case filed in 2006 by Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia (VoterGA) challenging the State of Georgia on the use of electronic voting machines in Superior Court of Fulton County.

It's hard to describe McCain's role in the savings-and-loan scandal as "peripheral"; as one of the Keating Five, he was a key player in the highest-profile political scandal connected to the financial disaster.

During the presidential debate this week, John McCain appeared to debate his own record on the question of lobbyists. At one point, McCain said, “There is too much special interests and too many lobbyists working there." But no presidential campaign has had more ties to Washington's lobbyist culture than John McCain's.

What will be impact of the Wall Street bankruptcies, bailouts and blunders on working people in this country and worldwide? What's the solution to the crisis?

The free trade agreement between Central American and the US has failed to accomplish all the supposed fairness and pledges advocated by its promoters, participants at the Social Forum of the Americas stated here this week.

With the spreading financial crisis likely to take center stage at the upcoming annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Washington on 11-13 October, the global trade union movement is urging the international financial institutions (IFIs) not to overlook the millions of low-income workers whose buying power has declined drastically because of food and fuel price hikes.

In what hidey-hole is economic growth going to take refuge, amid this unprecedented financial crisis? France is now in a recession according to the latest figures from the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies.

John McCain's late arrival to the economy debate this week with another plan to address the housing crisis is meeting with derision, across the political board. It has been seen more as a political stunt to cover for months of pretending the "fundamentals of the economy are strong."

Should Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin do less campaigning and more governing? Some veterans of the Alaska National Guard returning home from the war zone may think so.