Since it invaded Iraq in 2003, the US has detained thousands of juveniles – some of whom were tortured and sexually abused, according to published reports. Figures of the number of children behind bars vary. Some estimates put the number as high as 6,000.

Given the massive recall of toys contaminated with lead last year, let alone all the other bad news about chemicals seeping out of just about every other conceivable type of consumer item, it’s no wonder that people are nervous about what might be inside the wrapping paper this next holiday season.

A group of over 15,000 U.S. physicians has called on President-elect Barack Obama and the new Congress to "do the right thing" and enact a single-payer national health insurance plan, a system of public health care financing frequently characterized as "an improved Medicare for all."

(KHARTOUM) – The Secretary General of Sudan’s communist party (SCP) Ibrahim Nugud announced today that he will visit the Southern capital next week for talks with political forces there.

New polling data released this week by the AFL-CIO revealed the extent of union support for Barack Obama in the presidential election.

Thomas Frank's previous books established his reputation as a thinking person's Michael Moore, moving beyond standard liberal howls of anguish to explore the underlying causes of the rise of the Republican right.

Japan's Defense Ministry budget request for the next fiscal year starting on April 1, 2009 includes an expenditure for the relocation of 8,000 US Marines to the US territory of Guam in the South Pacific from Okinawa.

Before the war in Iraq started Robert Kagan wrote a wonderful little narcissistic view of the United States and its abilities to provide peace in a world of democratic capitalism.

In a letter of congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama this week, Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) called on the future president to strengthen the Department of Veterans Affairs and impose mandatory funding for benefits for veterans.

NORTH ANNA, VIRGINIA - Two Atlanta anti-nuclear activists were among six people arrested at a sit-in at the Visitor's Center of the North Anna nuclear power plant in Louisa, Virginia, on August 08, 2008.

Like many in our movement, I found myself in Southern California last weekend. There, I had the opportunity to speak with a man who said that Proposition 8 completely changed the way he saw his own neighborhood.

The sovereignty of an independent, stable country that has carried out many constructive moves in recent months and weeks, which could have surely contributed to the stabilization of the Middle East, has been violated, its borders breached and its civilians killed.

Immediately after Barack Obama was pronounced the victor in the 2008 presidential election, corporate media began to tell him how he ought to govern – in most cases, urging him to hew toward the center.

Wondering what may be first on the new Obama administration's agenda? At a Nov. 7th press conference, his first as president-elect, Barack Obama announced that fixing the economy is "job one."

More than 1.1 million jobs have been lost since the beginning of 2008, according to the latest data from the Department of Labor released Nov. 7th.

While working families and the people as a whole scored a major victory by electing Barack Obama and claiming larger majorities in Congress on Nov. 4th, several states set back the rights and equality of LGBT people.

Toyota is readying a limited run of a plug-in Prius, which can average 100 miles per gallon, for use in government and commercial fleets starting in 2009.

In a letter circulated this week to the staff and leadership of the United Steelworkers union (USW), USW President Leo Gerard expressed jubilation at the election of Barack Obama.

If there were a Mount Rushmore for political athletes, who would be carved into the great monument? For my money, it would include Muhammad Ali.

There are plans to deploy "black boxes" in UK ISPs’ networking hubs so that the government can capture and record every website that UK citizens visit. A similar operation is in full swing in the United States, where the NSA has hooked up their own "black boxes" to American Internet Service Providers'.