“Nothing is off the table unless the American people allow it to be so,” US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) said in an exclusive interview with Atlanta Progressive News (APN) about her Articles of Impeachment against President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.

This week (Dec. 6), the Iraq Study Group issued a bipartisan report calling the situation in Iraq “grave and deteriorating,” with civilians killed daily and electricity, water and other basic infrastructure lacking. 

Con la propuesta de reforma constitucional para su próximo mandato, el presidente Hugo Chávez coloca hoy a Venezuela en el centro de un debate que trasciende las fronteras nacionales: la vigencia del socialismo.

As millions around the world celebrated International Human Rights Day on December 10, the event was overshadowed throughout Chile as its citizens both mourned and celebrated the death of ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled the South American country from 1974 to 1990.

Recently the New York Times published an article by Richard A. Shweder (11/27/2006) a professor at the University of Chicago. Shweder's article is an attack on the Enlightenment tradition and indirectly gives a boost to the antiscientific and superstitious ultra-right political environment in the US.

Another December 7th has come and gone and Americans once again are reminded how their alleged lack of military preparedness almost led to their defeat by the Japanese and Germans. Trouble is, the U.S. had been building up its military machine as never before under President Franklin Roosevelt and in 1941 it was manufacturing more warplanes than Germany, Japan and Italy combined.

Against such threats as these, no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.

As hundreds of union organizers and supporters attending the AFL-CIO Organizing Summit marched down New Jersey Avenue in Washington, D.C., heading to the Capitol this afternoon, we chanted: “Union power on the rise. Now’s the time to organize!”

I never felt it was my place to question Negro League players. To me their parks are to be viewed as temples, undefiled by incompetence and me-ism. Hard-core athletes whose only performance enhancement was their love of the game, good times, and their own camaraderie.

Pelted by a perpetual hail of electrons fired through a cathode ray tube, the pixels on my PC monitor feed me a generous intellectual bounty of words and images emanating from virtually infinite points dotting the globe.

THE Cuban ecclesiastical authorities met in the Pastoral Forum of the Cuban Episcopal Cathedral in Havana in order to respond to provocative and offensive statements to the Cuban government and the Cuban Council of Churches by Jitka Klubaloba, general secretary of the Ecumenical Council of Churches of the Czech Republic, and signed a statement condemning her utterances.

WHAT happened at Singur on December 1? According to the description offered in a section of the TV and newspapers, democracy was supposedly raped that day at Singur, and ‘tigers’ personified in the police launched a barbarous attack on some innocent and harmless ‘sheep’.

Paul Wolfowitz was interrupted four times by a total of five protesters tonight during his invited Leo and Berry Eizenstat Memorial lecture on the World Bank at the Ahavath Achim Synagogue. The title of his speech was “Why Africa Matters to Americans.”

"We saw how people voted. It was very transparent," stated John Rummel who traveled to Venezuela as part of a delegation of election observers to witness the voting process in that country’s December 3rd presidential elections.

Experts say that just a four-square mile area of rainforest may contain as many as 1,500 different types of flowering plants and 750 species of trees, all which have evolved specialized survival mechanisms over the millennia.

Palestinian groups have recently suggested a ceasefire, in exchange for a cessation of Israeli violence. Ehud Olmert responded with a conciliatory speech, cleverly timed with President Bush’s arrival to Jordan on November 29 for a two-day conference with top Iraqi officials.

The Bush administration, faced by a serious setback in Iraq, is seeking to bring together an international police force under its leadership. This is being done under the guise that they will be NATO or UN forces and not American-controlled.

El Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV) triplicó el volumen de sus votos en las elecciones presidenciales de este domingo 3 de diciembre con respecto a los sufragios obtenidos en los comicios legislativos.