Several decades ago a fish-centric diet was considered to be not only healthy but also environmentally friendly. But today those of us who eat a lot of fish may not be doing ourselves or the environment any favor. The two major concerns are overfishing and pollution.

A US company that administers several servers in Sweden and Europe blocked the web sites of the Bolivian Information Agency and Rebelion, an alternative Spanish media.

Since 1900, the world population has tripled, but the amount of fresh water consumed has multiplied by six.

There is no doubt, judging by comments from environmentalists, politicians, trade unionists and any other concerned group you can imagine, that a low carbon economy and massive reductions in the production of greenhouse gases are essential to the future of the world.

The new imperialism is part a recognition that, yes, the United States is an imperial power as accepted and supported by various neocon pundits and apologists, and part a recognition that it takes a different form than previous empires, no longer so much as colonial-settlement projects but an economically-ideologically based empire.

If you thought burning food for fuel -- agrofuels -- has been an unmitigated disaster, just wait until we start chopping up our last natural forest habitats for cellulosic ethanol biofuel.

Discussions have been going on inside NATO about intervention in Latin America and in every other corner of the world, even without a UN mandate. This discussion has come about because the conservative and imperialist political forces in Europe and the United States are faced with the sweeping changes that have taken place in many countries in the recent period.

DETROIT – South Africa is at a crossroads, said Political Affairs Editor Joe Sims here at the Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery, Mar. 1.

There is an excellent review of John Bolton's new book, "Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad" by Brian Urquhart (a former UN under-secretary general) in the March 6, 2008 issue of The New York Review of Books ("One Angry Man").

It is an idealized interpretation - favorable to Franklin Delano Roosevelt - of his differences with the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, that are a true view of the contradictions between the decadent British Empire and the rising imperialism of the United States.

In yet more signs of changing times towards the political left is the election of Demetris Christofias as President of Cyprus and the smooth change in the leadership of Cuba. Both events took place last Sunday and both have their own significance.

Last year the UN declared that the struggle against climate change should not prevent developing nations from addressing their social and economic needs.

As the race for the United States presidential nominations progresses, the stances of and attitudes towards both Republican and Democratic candidates continue to bring up causes for concern, in terms of their past behavior, current appeal and general trustworthiness.

Fears of a global slowdown triggered by US housing market problems wiped 5.2 trillion US dollars off global stock markets in January, analysts estimate. According to ratings firm Standard and Poor's, 50 out of 52 share indexes around the world ended the month lower.

Group of Seven policymakers said the U.S. economy may slow further, eroding global growth, and officials forecast more financial-market turmoil.

The current financial crisis is less likely to cause a global recession than a radical realignment of the global economy, with a relative decline of the US and the rise of China and other countries in the developing world.

In this wonderfully written work, Jonathan Schell reviews the history of the doomsday weapons that have affected all our lives to a significant degree whether we realize it or not.

In his final State of the Union address to Congress on January 28, U.S. President George W. Bush devoted much of his time to the Iraq issue and said that the deployment of an additional 30,000 U.S. troops last year brought a success to the military operation in Iraq.

Solidarity flourishes the more adverse our external reality gets. Somehow during hardship, as humans we have an innate intuition which draws us closer to each other. Sure, it seems unreal in a time of such consequential conflict in the global society we are constructing, to be talking about fraternal unity.

As this article is being written, expectations are that the US Federal reserve would cut interest rates by a quarter to half a percentage on top of an unscheduled and unprecedented 0.75 percent cut it announced recently.