Maniacal privatization has been the byword of U.S. imperialism of late, which is part and parcel of the ongoing attack on the public sector and the redistribution of wealth—upwards.

The prospect of generating pollution-free power from the sun’s rays is appealing, but to-date the low price of oil combined with the high costs of developing new technology have prevented the widespread adoption of solar power in the U.S. and beyond.

What’s left of what passes for law in America is eroding rapidly. The latest scandal in Totalitarianville is the admission by Robert S. Mueller III March 9th his FBI had improperly used the Patriot Act to spy on individuals and businesses.

Tudeh Party of Iran strongly condemns the brutal attack of the Velayat-e Faqih Regime’s thugs on the peaceful gathering of the militant women of our country, and expresses its solidarity with the courageous women that are on a hunger strike in the prisons.

The KVPS (Struggle Committee Against Caste Discrimination) agitation seeking the Andhra Pradesh government’s active intervention for propagating and enforcing dalit rights in the state was a huge success.

In a statement released this past week, the AFL-CIO, the country's largest trade union federation, called for ending US military involvement in Iraq.

Doing the right thing can be costly, but in the end one can at least sleep at night. Ask Spc. Agustin Aguayo, 35, a U.S. citizen born in Guadalajara, Mexico, who was just sentenced by a US military court in Wurzburg, Germany.

The fact that the United States has military bases all over the world is not news; neither is its news that it uses them to back its imperialist geopolitical strategies.

Constrained by hostile public opinion toward his escalation in Iraq, the president is less vicious toward Teheran.

At a time when his popularity has hit rock bottom at home, President Bush is slipping out of Washington today to visit five Latin American nations in the course of an eight-day trip.

No U.S. foreign policy can be sustained without the informed consent of the American people. Last November, the people spoke clearly, calling on the president and Congress to change course in Iraq.

Although Neoconservatism suffered a setback in 2006 with the results of the midterm elections and the firing, resignation or indictment of several of the movement’s leading figures, the pernicious ideology that the Neocons espouse is by no means dead, nor even out of power.

Columnist Chris Stevenson ranks his recent favorite readings to keep you warm.

Africa Action marks International Women’s Day with a recognition that the global HIV/AIDS crisis continues to take a disproportionate toll on the world’s women, and with a call to U.S. and international policymakers to do more to address the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV/AIDS and other health challenges.

A government panel on the strengthening of national security functions of the Prime Minister's Official Residence on February 27 submitted its final report to Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, calling for an establishment of a "National Security Council."

Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, it was a very familiar encounter: Israeli soldiers storming our house accompanied by shouts of terror and a barrage of insults. Such recollections make me shudder to this day.

The nation is once again focused on the crisis in health care and the American people are looking for a comprehensive solution, instead of the inaction and incredibly ineffective piecemeal approach of the past 10 years.

US Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) has just become the 44th total cosponsor of S. 2, the bill to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in 10 years.

The US military lawyer representing Australian Guantánamo Bay detainee David Hicks says he may be removed from the case. The move would further delay proceeding in his case.

China issued on Thursday the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2006 in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2006 issued by the U.S. Department of State on Tuesday.