May 9 marks the end of the war against fascism and Nazism in Europe in 1945. It will be largely ignored by the government and the media of Australia as it has been for a number of years.

Reading David Brooks, the ultra-right New York Times op-eder, never fails to amuse. He is able to take the simplest facts and twist them around to such a degree that they come out looking like the exact opposite of what they really mean.

En el marco del plan desestabilizador que se prepara para fines de este mes, denuncia realizada por el Partido Comunista de Venezuela PCV esta semana, el gobierno norteamericano viene adelantando una campaña de mentiras contra el pueblo y gobierno de Venezuela.

In the 1960s radioactive gas emissions from nuclear plants caused public alarm. In 1973 the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania, USA, suffered an extremely dangerous accident, and in 1982 the nuclear power station at Chernobyl in the Ukraine suffered a catastrophic "meltdown," surely the worst environmental accident in human history.

The former colonies or neocolonies that had been promised a glowing future after World War II had not yet awakened from the Bretton Woods dream. From top to bottom, the system had been designed for exploitation and plundering.

So we have recently been reading about all that contaminated cat food (also dog food and feed for some other animals) that had to be recalled because it was full of Chinese wheat gluten.

Cuban President Fidel Castro warned Tuesday of the extreme poverty and other catastrophes threatening millions of people in the Third World, especially in Latin America.

After the initial shock of the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding President Bush's abortion ban, it's time to acknowledge the full reality of the decision. According to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, the ruling is harmful to women's health.

Countries should abide by the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) obligations during the course of peaceful use of nuclear energy, a Chinese official said here on Tuesday.

In a spacious yet fortified UN compound in Rome members of the Palestine committee at the General Assembly repeated old mantras; they vowed support for the Palestinians, issued a press release and then went to lunch.

The 14th Congress of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) started in this capital on Monday, attended by 1,500 delegates from 84 countries, the organization s president Marcia Campos stated.

Jumah Al Dossari has been rotting in Guatanamo for five years now without ever having been charged of an offense. The prisoner believes “he has been condemned to live forever on an island where there is no law,” his lawyer says.

Venezuela is currently selling approximately 200,000 barrels of oil per day to China, announced the Chinese Ambassador to Venezuela yesterday.

Even as the world watches while the US threatens, bullies and blackmails North Korea into giving up its nuclear weapons, and does the same with Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons programme, the leaders of the axis of evil, the USA and Britain have unashamedly launched expansive programmes of building new nuclear arsenals for the 21st century.

That is not an exaggerated figure, but rather a cautious one. I have meditated a lot on that in the wake of President Bush's meeting with U.S. automobile manufacturers.

Something is wrong. There are more and more organizations on the left. But this plethora of NGO’s does not seem to signify an expansion of action on the left and growing impact on society here in Israel. There are signs that there are other processes at work.

The fact that the United States has military bases all over the world is not news; neither is its news that it uses them to back its imperialist geopolitical strategies.

On March 6 2007, North Korea and the US concluded their first set of normalisation talks, which are part of the agreement reached in Beijing last month.

Once again, Seymour Hersh has uncovered a remarkable and frightening story about the shadowy netherworld of U.S. military and intelligence operations.

On 10 January 2007, George W. Bush made the announcement that the US would send 21,500 more troops to Iraq. A few weeks earlier, Stephen Harper was insisting that members of NATO should provide more combat troops in Afghanistan.