Georgia State Rep. Tyrone Brooks has requested an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) over a racist email he received a few weeks ago, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

In the wake of the tragedy that took the lives of 33 people and brought terror to the Virginia Tech campus, President Bush rushed to politicize the event...

The decision to establish an Executive in the North of Ireland is a big step forward in the building of peace and reconciliation.

In this book James Carroll traces the history of Christian anti-Semitism and the role of the Catholic Church, his Church, in its development. Despite his goal of portraying the responsibility of the Church in what became the holocaust, he ends up with a nuanced apologetic for his religion and dilutes Catholic responsibility by deflecting some of the blame to the Enlightenment, Luther and Marxism.

Ecuador has launched a popularly supported constitution revision process that will introduce a number of socialist reforms, reports Agence France-Presse.

There are are only seven days to the election. Everything is still possible. The network of militants that is spreading out throughout the country can still avoid all the traps and create the conditions of a new hope.

More canaries are keeling over in the mine shaft. In Germany and the United States, bee populations are declining rapidly.

General Motors, once a global giant and for long the number one company in the world not to mention the undisputed leader of the US is today on a path of steady, some say terminal, decline along with the rest of the US automobile industry.

Most researchers agree that even small changes in temperature are enough to send hundreds if not thousands of already struggling species into extinction unless we can stem the tide of global warming.

“The new economic conflict in our society is between creditors and debtors,” Michael Hudson, economic historian, says, in a new documentary film, In Debt We Trust, by Danny Schechter.

The latest back and forth between Israel and the Palestinian unity government (and its regional interlocutors) will not bring peace to fruition.

Immigrant workers from the Woodfin Suites hotel and their supporters rally outside the Emeryville City Hall, and then march to the hotel.

While a new study released this month notes some improvements, African Americans and Latinos are still more likely than Anglos to be targets of traffic stops and searches in Texas.