Much as I wish I could take credit for the word "matriotism," another woman wrote to me and gave me the concept. I was so intrigued by the word that I have been meditating on the possible ideology behind it, and a new paradigm for true and lasting peace in the world.

Oh, Canada -- you're not really going to elect a Conservative majority on Monday, are you? That's a joke, right? I know you have a great sense of humor, and certainly a well-developed sense of irony, but this is no longer funny. Maybe it's a new form of Canadian irony -- reverse irony! OK, now I get it.

According to a Congressional report on the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the agency made an estimated $1.4 billion in improper payments in 2003, the last year for which financial records are available.

Were I to list all the pieces of evidence that Bush took us to war with lies, we'd have lost tens of thousands of lives and tens of billions of dollars before I finished.  So, I'll give you a short version. 

The Republican Party "came and invaded the Black Church and tricked people into supporting Bush," Reverend Al Sharpton told a National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) Summit here.

Like Forrest Gump, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a witness to history. He likes to say that he remembered the horror of Soviet tanks on the streets of his native Austria, even though he was born two years after the war ended and the Americans liberated Vienna.

Some representatives from East European countries – who still like to present themselves as "victims of Communism" – are trying to find an opportunity to halt the re-strengthening of the communist parties and their youth organisations in their respective countries, and they even would like to eliminate those parties from the political landscape.

The possibility of a Conservative victory constitutes the main danger for the working class and its allies today, for women, Aboriginal peoples, for youth and seniors, for New Canadians and oppressed minorities, and for all those concerned about peace and social justice issues here and around the world.

The "new" world order of capital The collapse and the destruction of the socialist states in Europe, especially the Soviet Union paved the way for capital to subjugate all areas of social and cultural life under its interests. Pre-existing crises have worsened and new trouble spots have emerged.

As someone who has for years been a faculty advisor to a group at Rutgers campaigning for a death penalty moratorium, I was very happy that New Jersey's legislature had the courage to establish a death penalty moratorium.

The Japanese government plans to submit to the next ordinary Diet session a bill to revise the special agreement on Japan's funding for the stationing of U.S. forces in Japan under Article 24 of the Status of U.S. Forces in Japan Agreement (SOFA) so that it can be extended two more years.

The peace process continues to be stalled as both governments attempt to put the pieces back together and get the Executive and Assembly running again. The British Secretary of State, Peter Hain, has stated that he intends cutting off the salary of members of the Assembly if the Executive and Assembly are not operational later this year.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is preparing, at the end of January 2006, to pass a resolution entitled "On the Need for International Condemnation of Communist Regimes".

On a global scale, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is the most revered American of the second half of the twentieth century. His I Have a Dream speech, given at the August 1963 National March on Washington, is the most praised and admired speech by an American in modern history.

"There is a conspiracy among mayors since they hear the Mayor of Atlanta has outlawed panhandling," Michael Stoops, Executive Director of the National Coalition of the Homeless (NCH), said in a press conference, January 11, 2006.

Given the recent political death of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, many in Israel and the Occupied Territories are wondering who will the former premier’s spot. Likewise, Palestinians and Israelis are closely watching to see who will govern Palestinian society.

During Indonesia’s occupation of Timor there were some 18,600 unlawful killings or disappearances between 1975 and 1999. The Report says that the Indonesian military was responsible for 70% of the killings.

The mainstream media’s lionizing and exalting of the fatally ill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could only be compared to that of great men and women of past years.

In December 2005, the reactionaries who are running the government and ruining the country decided to cut about $42 billion from the human services budget over the next few years. Most of the cuts will come out of the hides of the very poorest among us.

"Don’t they have anything to do? I am just a mom of a teenage son. I just don’t want my son or anyone else go to a stupid war," Susan Keith told Atlanta Progressive News.