There's a song from the legendary 1960 musical, "Bye, Bye Birdie," titled "Kids," which laments the peculiar behaviors of kids. It famously ponders, "Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way? What's the matter with kids today?"

Those telling words were the lyrical musings of adults. And logically so, for the questionable behaviors of kids are a never ending bemusement for adults. Kids are silly. They lack the logic and moral framework from which to make reasoned decisions and act in civil respectable ways. They lack the character building acquired through the process of aging.

Against such threats as these, no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.

With the toll of Aids-related deaths accelerating each year, and faced with reluctance on the part of wealthy nations and industries to take their fair share of the responsibility, the plight of HIV/AIDS sufferers in poor countries looks increasingly desperate.

The Riga NATO summit of 29th of November 2006 constitutes a further step in the reinforcement of NATO as "gendarme du monde" and of its vital role in promoting the reactionary policies of big capital.

In view of the contemporary myth of the all-powerful character of US transnationals, it is important to start by stressing the real power exercised over them by the US government. Both right-wingers and some on the left have claimed that such companies are beyond the control of any particular state and can now move capital without detection across any border.

Treasure hunt is always a great game to play. As the objects are hidden curious children search until they find the winning prize. Children in Afghanistan play the same game, but what they find can cost them their life.

Today it is more necessary than ever that revolutionary and left-wing forces get together to analyze the current world situation and propose concrete actions.

The imperialist character of the "New World Order" has been demonstrated in the most evident way through the NATO raid against Yugoslavia, the invasion and continuous occupation of Iraq, the recent Israeli raid against Lebanon and so many other tragic examples.

The end of the cold war was not the beginning of the peace proclaimed by some and dreamed of by many. The real history has been that of increasing domination by a nation that exerts economic and political pressures without scruples, that claims the right to invade any country in the pursuit of its goals and which is leading the planet down the path to destruction.

Without a doubt the 2006 elections transformed the political landscape in the U.S. Immediately following the news that his party had been swept from power, President Bush sacked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Fifteen years after the disappearance of the USSR, imperialism's global offensive has brought to our planet more war, more militarism, more violence, more torture, more illegal prisons, more restrictions of freedoms and more anti-democratic repression.

An International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties took place, in Lisbon, on November 10, 11 and 12, 2006, under the theme "Dangers and potentialities of the international situation."

The White House has arranged to announce two days before the November 7, 2006, elections a guilty verdict for Saddam Hussein and, no doubt, plans to finally murder him.

The carnage in Iraq is clearly getting much worse. The Iraqi people are being terrorized in their daily lives by assorted guerilla armies, "private" warlord "militias," and of course the U.S. and British "coalition forces."

THE information and communications technology (ICT) industry is today seen as truly global, with the process of diffusion worldwide having been particularly rapid over the last decade. Diffusion, however, has two separate components: the diffusion of supply, involving production of ICT equipment and services, and diffusion in use, whether in or outside production.

Hugo Chavez’s speech at the United Nations in New York two weeks ago ignited a firestorm of indignation from politicians, TV pundits, and editorial writers that has yet to be extinguished. The president of Venezuela referred to President Bush as “the Devil” and warned the world about the threat of the “American empire.”

The world’s slum population is expected to double to two billion souls within a generation -- a festering sore that traces back to the British Empire as well as to the post-World War II policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, according to the just published “Planet of Slums”(Verso) by Mike Davis.

THE 14th Summit of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) reaffirmed in its final document the strong commitment to, “its founding principles, ideals and purposes, particularly in establishing a peaceful and prosperous world as well as a just and equitable world order.”

The Non-Aligned Movement Summit held in Havana, Cuba, ended on September 17 after adopting the "Declaration on the Purposes and Principles and the Role of the Non-Aligned Movement in the Present International Juncture."

Borrowing a line from U.S. linguist and foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky, Venezuela’s President Chavez told the 61st UN General Assembly that the world currently faces the choice between continued U.S. hegemony and human survival.