The US president’s threatening speech against Iran, and the provocative raid of American military units on an office building in Irbil where Iranian government officials worked, and the detention of five office staff in the recent days, are worrying developments for all progressive and national forces of our country.

Even though Democrats rolled up a 7-million vote victory margin Nov. 7th in protest of the war in Iraq, President Bush's intransigent response January 10th was to call for the escalation of U.S. troops rather than for their withdrawal.

The reviews are in, and they are terrible. The reaction to the President’s speech of January 10 –from the public, the media, and the overwhelming majority of Democrats and many influential Republicans in congress — shows just how isolated George Bush has become on the question of Iraq.

While applauding the recent passage of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 in the US House of Representatives, eleven LGBT Organizations urged the quick passage of the accompanying bill in the Senate, and a speedy signing by President Bush.

The Bush Administration announced yesterday it will abandon the warrantless surveillance program operated by the National Security Agency (NSA), Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

G.W. Bush is preparing for his state of the union address, popping up on TV to push his Iraq policies, which he has “conceded” have not been without fault in recent months.

It began with that monstrous young man so evil we needed to blindfold him and strap him to a board, that confusing young man who looked like Christ but cast us in the role of crucifiers, that treasonous young man who brought dark and heathen evils across linguistic and cultural borders and brought torture onto the list of accepted government actions.

The Bush administration is pushing hard to complete negotiations on a trade deal with South Korea before its “fast-track” authority expires June 30. But thousands of Korean workers made it clear Monday that they will not accept a bad deal.

Bruno Salvador, the central protagonist in The Mission Song, the latest thriller from best-selling novelist John LeCarré, is an enthusiastic supporter of Britain, especially the humanitarian sounding goals of the Blair government.

Mother nature has given up on humanity. The evolutionary process has ceased, and the world of human beings has become a "failed state." This is the background for Children of Men (directed by Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and based on a P.D. James novel).

Americans angered by Bush's plans to escalate the Iraq war will flood the streets of Washington on Saturday, January 27, in a massive national peace march organized by United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ).

The Bring Our Troops Home and Sovereignty of Iraq Restoration Act is the first comprehensive legislative proposal to end the occupation and provide a framework to help bring stability back to Iraq.

Development projects anywhere in the world often have a high human cost. In Colombia, the price is often measured in human lives and blood.

The international media has reported that on January 11, 2007, the United States government, which for more than 18 months has been protecting international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, has been obliged to indict him on charges of fraud and lying when applying for U.S. citizenship.

The Bush administration’s call to escalate the war in Iraq has been met with a resounding “No!” Twenty-four hours after Bush’s announcement about sending 21,500 more troops, emergency protest actions were organized in nearly 1,000 neighborhoods and town squares.

More Americans are dying needlessly every day in the United States because of President Bush's illegal war in Iraq than are being killed in the fighting there.

'The Attorney-General should issue a government health warning that capitalism seriously harms you and those around you', Graham Stevenson told the Communist Party executive committee at the weekend. He referred to rising unemployment, escalating personal debt and bankruptcy, widespread use of hard drugs and anti-depressants, alcohol abuse and NHS cuts in a society where a small minority continue to accumulate massive and mostly tax-free wealth.

At a time of increasing fears for the future of the Earth, a beacon of hope shines off the southern coast of the United States. According to the Living Planet Report 2006 published by the World Wildlife Fund, Cuba is the only country in the world that enjoys "sustainable development."

There's a glaring contradiction looming in the way of Bush's planned escalation of his Iraq occupation which must be apparent to everyone except the decider-in-chief. Bush is mobilizing our soldiers for a new assault on the very Iraqis he's claiming to be liberating with his continuing occupation. In that counterproductive effort, Bush is looking to draw even more Iraqis into a new round of violent suppression against Bush's perceived 'enemies'; using our nation's defenses to intimidate and eliminate anyone in Iraq who would actively resist the U.S. fostered Maliki regime.

In his speech announcing an escalation in Iraq President Bush relied upon a familiar refrain: "Failure in Iraq would be a disaster for the United States... Our enemies would have a safe haven from which to plan and launch attacks on the American people." Bush suggested Al Qaeda leads the Iraqi resistance to the occupation and, therefore, if America leaves without achieving "victory," Al Qaeda will establish a caliphate in Iraq. Once again, Bush cried Wolf.