These meetings were initiated 9 years ago by the Communist Party of Greece. For a number of years they were held in Athens, but beginning last year they began branching out.

The world today is entering a period of rapid climate change due in large part to increasing the atmospheric concentration of energy-trapping gases. This amplifies the natural “greenhouse effect” that makes the Earth habitable.

What do an organic farmer from Spain, a union worker activist from Brazil, and a human rights scholar living in London have in common?

New Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has vowed to sign a global pact on climate change and to negotiate to withdraw frontline troops from Iraq after an emphatic national election win on the weekend.

The inspiration behind the book was basically a sense by my co-author, Gabriel Greenberg, and I that there is a form of stereotyping in the United States, which parallels and is similar to stereotyping against African Americans, women, and other groups, that we now see being perpetuated against Muslims and Islam itself.

Although green-friendly goods are starting to show up just about everywhere, finding all the right products is still not as simple as a one-stop trip to the mall or major grocer.

We are writing to invite you to participate in a groundbreaking new media project: The People Media Project, aimed at promoting a broader and more balanced understanding of global issues, conflicts and concerns.

The United Nations will start its work in the plenary of the General Assembly this week by discussing a report on enlargement of the Security Council.

Events keep piling up that show how the aspirations of the US and European governments to reimpose colonial regimes in their lost empires are steadily unraveling.

The General Secretary of the Venezuelan Workers Union, Orlando Chirino voiced in Caracas his strong rejection to the anti-Cuba speech pronounced by US President Bush on Wednesday and said if Cuba were attacked it would receive the unconditional support of Venezuela.

During his 26-year papacy, John Paul II elevated 483 individuals to sainthood, reportedly more saints than all previous popes combined. One personage he beatified but did not live long enough to canonize was Mother Teresa.

Most environmental advocates believe that keeping cats indoors is better for both the health of the felines themselves and for their prey.

Officials, diplomats and activists joined their voices against poverty during a meeting that took place in the gardens of the UN headquarters in New York.

According to marine scientists, the world’s coral reefs—those underwater repositories for biodiversity that play host to some 25 percent of all marine life—are in big trouble as a result of global warming.

Ernesto Ekaizer, who revealed the minutes of a secret meeting between George W. Bush and ex-president Jose Maria Aznar in which they made a plot to attack Iraq, asserted on Thursday that there is enough criminal evidence to try the Spanish president.

Fresh water scarcity is already posing major problems for more than a billion people around the world, mostly in arid developing countries.

October 2nd will mark the birth anniversary of Human Rights Activist, Mahatma Gandhi and for the first time, the United Nations is officially proclaiming this day to be the International Day of Non-violence.

August’s financial crisis originated in the United States from the practices of its private financial institutions. These firms have made a heavy entry into the credit sector in recent years, in the housing market but also in consumables, secured by residential mortgages.

This article is a review of Naomi Klein’s important article in the October 2007 issue of Harper’s Magazine (“Disaster Capitalism: The new economy of catastrophe”) based on her new book, The Shock Doctrine.

There are many origins for this book. One of them was that I grew up in a period when the Third World Movement was beginning to fall apart. That was in the 1970s, when my lingering interest, you might even call it my obsession, with the early years of the Third World Project began.