The danger which threatens Iraq's childhood, in its present and future, has become greater than ever before. The devastation inflicted on children by the wars and militarization of society by the dictatorship, was further aggravated by occupation.

This is not the best of times for those who make a living out of being financial intermediaries. Recent times have seen more than an apparent meltdown in some major financial markets, such as that of the United States.

Harman believes that there is an essential logic to the apparently bewildering confusion of history. For instance, he answers a question that has always puzzled me.

Researchers were astounded when, in the fall of 2007, they discovered that the year-round ice pack in the Arctic Ocean had lost some 20 percent of its mass in just two years, setting a new record low since satellite imagery began documenting the terrain in 1978.

The strange logic of western political discourse consists of paradigms such as the following: the "Third World" is named as such by the "First World" because it somehow inherently inferior and developmentally backwards compared to the "First World," even though its shortcomings are largely due to exploitative, extractive "First World" economic policies.

The price of crude oil more than doubled in 12 months and more than quadrupled in five yeas since May 2003. The big oil corporations empty people’s pockets and pump out record profits, while the government sits by and says there is little else it can do.

Pero si yo tuviera que resumirlo y proyectar un escenario, creo que nos enfrentamos a varios años con una economía muy débil y temblorosa que para mucha gente equivaldrá a una recesión prolongada, aunque no lo será formalmente.

If I had to put it all together and lay out a scenario, I think we are facing years of a very weak and stumbling economy that will feel to many people like an extended recession, even if it is not formally one.

Marxists and non-Marxist economists have predicted the current financial crisis for some time. Its conditions have been in operation since the acceleration of the deregulation processes in the monetary and financial markets.

Globalization has created a situation which generated a worldwide phenomenon of migration of millions of workers to other countries. Finance capital’s thrust for cheap labor to bring down the cost of production in an environment of cut throat competition has given a powerful impetus to the phenomenon of migration of labor both within as well as outside the country.

The effects of global warming manifest themselves differently in different locations, and winter is no doubt getting shorter and warmer across New England, the Canadian Maritimes and Northern Europe.

Sooner rather than later, we must all take a deep look into ourselves, evaluate those values which were indoctrinated into us from very early age, through our faiths, religions, education and social interaction.

The natural disasters that have caused so much destruction and loss of life in recent times are going to continue and perhaps become more frequent and destructive.

BANGKOK, 20 May 2008 (IRIN) - More than two weeks after Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, only 500,000 of the estimated 2.4 million people affected have received some form of international assistance thus far, according to the UN.

Bobbitt is a distinguished professor of constitutional law holding degrees from Princeton, Yale and Oxford. He has served in important government positions under Presidents Carter, Bush 1 and Clinton. He is now at both the University of Texas and Columbia University.

In a speech May 16 in Watertown, South Dakota, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama rejected criticisms this week leveled by George Bush in the Israeli parliament about Obama's plans for a diplomatic surge to bring peace to Iraq, Iran and the Middle East.

Economists…some so intent on their money, not able to truly release themselves from their fundamental neoliberal values, afraid to admit that many of the policies they are advocating fall squarely into the rubric of "socialism."

The data provided in the US State Department's annual terrorism report for 2007 points to some interesting if puzzling conclusions. The much publicized document, made available 30 April via the State Department's website, makes no secret of the fact that Al-Qaeda is back, strong as ever.

The current 1.1 billion people worldwide without access to potable water only opens one of the smaller windows on the injustices and the multiple casualties being wrought by private water-related industries.

True to the American manner of meeting challenges and desiring to overcome them, a recent Time magazine cover led off with the title “How to Win The War On Global Warming.”