When J. Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly last July that CNN's Lou Dobbs should be kicked off the air for his biased and racist anti-immigrant claims, O'Reilly defended Dobbs and accused the civil rights activist of "overreacting."

In the latest of a string of policies that will benefit America's veterans, the Obama administration this week announced the creation of a new Veterans Employment Initiative. The measure will make the federal government a "model employer of America's veterans," the White House said.

Just like every other industry, going green has become a mantra among airlines, car rental companies and even hotel chains. The fuel crunch of a few years ago forced all the airlines into belt-tightening mode and the results—lower fuel consumption and fewer emissions—are good news for the environment.

The bipartisan passage of the House health reform bill Sat. Nov. 7 met with mainly positive reviews from the labor and democratic movements. Political disputes over abortion rights, however, threaten total unity for passage of a final bill.

30 community organizations called for police accountability during a rally at City Hall on Thursday, October 29, 2009.

Many columnists throughout the sports world were aghast when the volcanic bigot Rush Limbaugh wanted to be part owner of the St. Louis Rams. Many columnists also praised National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern when he attempted to crack down on players' conduct.

The latest news out of Honduras is very alarming. It would appear that the much ballyhooed “accords” worked out last week between negotiating teams for President Manuel Zelaya and coup leader Roberto Micheletti are being used as yet another cynical delaying tactic by the latter, and as a cop-out stratagem by the Obama administration.

The first of what may be many strikes hit San Francisco's Class A hotels, when workers launched a 3-day strike against the Hyatt Grand, one of the city's largest and most luxurious. The contract with the workers' union, UNITE HERE Local 2, expired in June.

Whether it’s a wind farm, a coal-fired power plant, a nuclear reactor or even just a big box store, there are always going to be locals opposed to it, declaring “not in my back yard!” (NIMBY).

Washington has been negotiating secret and “highly sensitive understandings” to “provide added security for the Pakistani arsenal in case of a crisis,” investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports.

Our contemporary moment marked the collapse of global capital, ecological crises, war and U.S. occupations, and intensified racial inequality challenges all of us to speak truth to power and to deepen our politics of solidarity with all who experience oppression.

he fight for health care has been harder than anticipated by many. Even though it is moving toward an historic moment, many are frustrated with the pace of change. Worse, the rising unemployment is getting very scary.

Shouldn’t it be natural for public schools to put labor history front and center? After all, it is the story of the working people who built the community. It is the story of their struggle for dignity, rights and a decent standard of living by organizing labor unions, building a labor movement and creating a diverse working-class culture.

In a span of 5 weeks and one day earthquakes, floods, mudslides, typhoons and tsunamis swept through 10 nations leaving thousands of people dead and rendering millions more homeless.

In Oceanside, Carlsbad, Del Mar and north San Diego County, immigrant day laborers wait by the side of the road, hoping a contractor will stop and offer them work.

Jerry Fodor, the American philosopher, has a review in the October 16, 2009 TLS entitled "The truth is not out there." This review is of Michael Tye's "CONSCIOUSNESS REVISITED: Materialism without phenomenal concepts" and Tye is a follower of Hilary Putnam a Harvard philosopher who defends a position called "externalism."

Today marks the 30th year since the 444 day Iran Hostage Crisis began in 1979. On this day the media traditionally offers us images of Iranians burning American flags and effigies of Uncle Sam. We are reminded of the great chasm of mistrust and misunderstanding that has marked the last three decades of US-Iranian relations.

When the first Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) was published in 2002, a star glistened in a vast, gloomy sky. The fact that a UN-sponsored report, authored by independent Arab scholars would receive so much attention in Arab media, was in itself a promising start.

Two recent police raids of gay bars in Atlanta, Georgia and Fort Worth, Texas have sparked mass protests in the two cities and led activists to question whether equality for persons of all sexual orientations in the U.S. has come as far as some would like to believe.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Japan to urge the new government led by the Democratic Party of Japan to implement the Japan-U.S. agreement on a new U.S. base in Okinawa.