United States President George Bush will be visiting Uruguay next March 8/9 as part of a Latinamerican tour that also includes Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia, was announced Wednesday in Montevideo.

he Gateway Center–Mayor Shirley Franklin’s answer to ending chronic homelessness in Atlanta–has now downsized its emergency Overflow for homeless women from about 150 mats, to 10 mats per night, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

Bush is going to ask the "Quartet" to approve his plan to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process while he muses about attacking Iran.

The U.S. government has refused to grant visas to U.S. cyclists invited to the 32nd Tour of Cuba, say the organizers of the traditional tour.

Tony Blair's claim that "nobody's talking about military intervention in respect of Iran" is reminiscent of his duplicity in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.

In last Thursday's New York Times (2-1-07), David Books, one of the Times' house reactionaries, wrote an article trying to show that there will be no Iraq Syndrome as there had been a Vietnam Syndrome ("The Iraq Syndrome, R.I.P.").