DECATUR - DeKalb citizens spoke out Monday, April 13, 2009, during the public comment session at the DeKalb County Board of Education meeting against the DeKalb Marine Corps Institute, a new magnet school scheduled to open in August.

President Barack Obama campaigned on and has already implemented the largest tax cut for working families in US history. On April 1st, the Treasury Department revised its rules to make sure that 95 percent of workers will keep an extra $400 per year and working-class households will keep $800 per year.

Unions are good for workers. Today, median weekly pay for union members is $886, compared to $691 for non-union workers. Moving cargo on the Oakland waterfront pays three times what stocking shelves does at WalMart, because longshore workers have had a union contract since 1934.

In an effort designed to promote "democracy and human rights" in Cuba, the White House April 13 lifted a number of restrictions imposed on travel and trade with the island nation imposed by the Bush administration.

Hace algunos días falleció en La Habana, a la edad de 91 años, Carlos Lechuga, una de las figuras cimeras del periodismo y la diplomacia cubana. Era un consagrado periodista cuando se incorporó a las filas clandestinas del Movimiento revolucionario 26 de Julio.

Some days ago Carlos Lechuga, one of the shining lights of Cuban journalism and diplomacy, died in Havana at the age of 91. He was already an acclaimed journalist when he joined the clandestine ranks of the July 26th Revolutionary Movement.

President Barack Obama will travel to Trinidad and Tobago on April 17 with the opportunity to define the approach his administration will take towards Latin America. The region’s presidents, many of whom enthusiastically welcomed Obama’s election in November, now must hope that the new leader in the White House makes more use of this unique forum than was the case with his predecessor.

Recent controversies over the "Buy American" slogans advanced by the Steelworkers Union (and the Steel companies) in fighting for all purchases by the stimulus be to US producers – have also given rebirth to long-standing debates about globalization and "free trade."

I recently signed a petition sponsored by MoveOn.org to fire Ken Lewis, the CEO of the Bank of America. The petition was obviously inspired by the Obama administration’s removal of the President of General Motors.

It took several days and some Special Forces clout to take down the Somali pirates, and rescue Captain Richard Phillips, but no sooner had this took place than the fast fingers of the white American press dove in to discredit the pirates.

ATLANTA - Several dozen Atlantans gathered at the First Iconium Baptist Church in East Atlanta Saturday, April 04, 2009, to hear expert testimony on and ask questions about home foreclosures and predatory lending.

The 20th century is well behind us, but we have not yet learned to live in the 21st, or at least to think in a way that fits it. That should not be as difficult as it seems, because the basic idea that dominated economics and politics in the last century has patently disappeared down the plughole of history.

A 2007 assessment by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) predicts that orangutans will be virtually eliminated in the wild within two decades if current deforestation trends continue.

There are very few cases of writers who maintain total indifference toward the ethics of their work. There are not so few who have understood that in the practice of literature it is possible to separate ethics from aesthetics.

Any variation of the words “Palestine” and “massacre” are sure to yield millions of results on major search engines on the World Wide Web. These results are largely in reference to hundreds of different dates and events in which numerous Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army or settlers.

In April 2007, South Korea and the US reached a controversial free trade arrangement after fourteen months of negotiations. Unions and other organizations representing South Korean workers and farmers, supported by the local social democrats, consider the deal a threat to South Korean jobs, and their industries as a whole.

While there will always be a place for high-quality sunscreen on body parts exposed to the sun, covering up elsewhere—ideally with clothing designed to absorb or shield the sun’s damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation—can minimize a person’s skin cancer risk significantly.

In a statement exposing falsehoods contained in a TV ad against marriage equality produced by an anti-gay coalition, LGBT civil rights group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) this week accused the group of hiring actors to invent or distort social issues related to the question of same-sex marriage.

At the first round of climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, a delegate from the Philippines noted that the Christmas bonus of a Wall Street banker was higher than the amount of money allocated to the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF).

HAVANA, April 9 (Xinhua) -- After half a century of ever-widening political differences, Cuba and the United States appear to have reached an opportune moment for rapprochement based on respect and mutual benefit.