The latest opinion polls in the United States conducted by the BBC, ABC and the German broadcaster ARD show that 20 percent of people think that the Afghan Karzai government is doing a poor job, compared with only eight percent in 2007.

Since he took office, President Obama has instituted many changes that break with the policies of the Bush administration. The new president has ordered that no government agency will be allowed to torture, that the US prison at Guantánamo will be shuttered, and that the CIA’s secret black sites will be closed down.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping wrapped up his official visit to Venezuela yesterday, signing a dozen new agreements with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the areas of energy, telecommunications, information, and agriculture.

Nicaraguan Miguel D’Escoto, President of the UN General Assembly, today paid tribute to the late Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania, and to the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.

President Barack Obama's announcement this week of his decision to send two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan by this summer earned a swift response from peace groups.

With foreclosures skyrocketing and U.S. families sinking deeper into poverty, a number of organisations are turning to a new strategy to end homelessness: moving families into vacant, foreclosed houses that are currently owned by banks or the government.

What do you do when congressional Republicans, out of a rigid ideological desire to see you fail, appear set to block any proposal you make? Go around them.

The Rudd government’s $42 billion stimulus package passed through the Senate last Friday, with the support of the five Greens senators, South Australian independent Nick Xenophon and Family First Steve Fielding. The Coalition were politically left out in the cold.

The government has finally begun to move to set Japan’s mid-term goal of greenhouse gas emissions cuts to be achieved by 2020. A government panel on global warming will examine six plans aimed at cutting emissions by 7-25 percent from the 1990 level and establishing Japan’s goal by June.

The new US administration this week reversed the country's position on the control of mercury by calling for a legally binding treaty to limit global mercury pollution.

Nearly 30 percent of Blacks have zero net worth. We should remember racial inequality is most pronounced during economic hard times.

More than a dozen humpback whales have been seen in ocean waters off Lucrecia Point, on the northern coast of Holguin, eastern Cuba, something unusual in the island nation.

When President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law Tuesday, Feb. 17, he put into motion a mammoth effort to invest in the US economy and create or save 3.5 million jobs over the next two years.

Peace and justice activists in Virginia's Fifth District were thrilled last November when we and our neighbors replaced Congressman Virgil Goode with Tom Perriello.

The so-called "war on terror" launched by the United States following the 9/11 terror attacks has resulted in serious damage to the world's respect for human rights, according to a report released on Monday.

Cuba and South Africa look forward to expanding bilateral cooperation in the field of biotechnology, as revealed during the current working visit to that nation by the director of the Cuban Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center.

With close to 70 percent voter turnout and affirmations of the transparency of the process by international election observers, Venezuelans approved an amendment to their country's constitution to remove term limits on certain elected officials, Sunday, Feb. 15th.

Despite intense and expensive propaganda campaigns against "government-run" health care programs, more than seven in 10 Americans believe that a public health insurance plan should be among the choices available to people.

The Canadian Labour Congress has responded to news that Canada lost 129,000 jobs in January with a renewed call for the federal government to make urgently-needed improvements to the Employment Insurance program.

ATLANTA-Campus Progress held their first Southern Regional Conference at Morehouse College from February 06 to 08, 2009.The conference included a journalism track and an activism track.