Forcing the Pace: Partido Komunista NG Pilipinas from Foundation to Armed Struggle
The Philippines Communist Party is best known for leading a heroic and successful armed struggle against Japanese occupation between 1941 and 1945 and an equally heroic but ultimately unsuccessful armed resistance to the new US-backed government from 1946.
Women's Advocacy Orgs. Applaud Biden Pick
The same day Barack Obama announced his decision to select Joe Biden as his running mate, three major national women's health and advocacy organizations expressed strong approval of the decision.
New Bush Rules Confuse Birth Control with Abortion
Despite a public outcry, which included over 325,000 signatures on a petition, the Bush administration has moved forward with new Health and Human Services regulations that deliberately confuse birth control with abortion.
New Web Site Reveals McCain to be 'Worse than Bush'
Recent polls show that a growing number of voters see a potential McCain administration as pushing the same policies as George W. Bush. But a new Web site, WorseThanBush.org, created by people at the Change to Win labor federation highlights key items on McCain's agenda that would make him a worse president than Bush.
The Scoop on Recycling Bottle Caps and Lids
Many municipal recycling programs throughout the U.S. still do not accept plastic lids, tops and caps even though they take the containers that accompany them. The reason is that they are not typically made of the same kinds of plastics as their containers and therefore should not be mixed together with them.
Intersex: I am not Disordered, I am Human
Recently, I read an article in which Amy Hinton was discussing her work as an intersex activist. I found myself needing to respond to a few of her points.
Editorial: A Response to Investors.com and Right-wing Media Bias
A recent Investors.com online editorial, 'Finding Friends On the Far, Far Left,' of August 20, 2008, provides a welcome opportunity for PoliticalAffairs.net to remind our readers of where we stand on the hot-button issues in this election.
WTO must break with ‘free trade’ as principle
The mini-ministerial talks of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha Round ended without an agreement being reached. With no clear possible outcome in sight, the need now is to examine the role of the WTO.
Clear Channel Removes 2nd Anti-Nukes Ad
Just three days after a pulling a billboard ad produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) from the Minneapolis airport for being 'scary' and 'anti-McCain,' the media company, Clear Channel Communications, removed a second anti-nuclear weapons billboard from the Denver International Airport.
The Worst of Poverties
'To be poor in the midst of riches is the worst of poverties' is a thought by Seneca that seems to guide the ideas summarized in a substantial article titled 'Unequal America' that appears in the July issue of Harvard Magazine. It is written by its associate editor, Elizabeth Gudrais.
