To speak of an alternative media is to acknowledge the deficiency of the prevailing media, the mainstream, in addressing the issues, catering to the concerns, and responding to the woes of the general public, the overwhelming majority of people who are almost completely disregarded by the corporate media everywhere.

When the nation's largest firefighters union released a video on July 12 challenging the portrayal of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as a hero of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, New York Times reporter Marc Santora rushed to put out the anti-Giuliani fire.

I bet you thought my dust-up with Wolf Blitzer was just a cool ratings coup, that you really wouldn't have to correct the false statements you made about "Sicko." I bet you thought I was just going to go quietly away.

On the outskirts of Guatemala City the body of an 18-year-old woman of indigenous ethnicity was recently discovered by her frantic parents who had been searching long and hard.

Statistically, it is well known that if you wind up in prison and are lucky enough to get out, you will be going back some time soon. Julio Medina is someone who has beaten the odds hands down.

At present, George W. Bush is unpopular with the majority of the American public not because of the murderous mayhem he has unloosed in Iraq; rather, his standing has plummeted, due to the fact, he didn't deliver the goods.

Former Defense Minister Kyuma Fumio’s remark that the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki “couldn’t be helped” has offended many Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors) and put a damper on the international efforts for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Following the Communist Party of Israel’s 25th Congress and the Jerusalem Initiative (reported in the last two issues), I had the opportunity to visit various cities in the West Bank, much of which is under Israeli occupation.

The United States Social Forum was held in Atlanta, Georgia on June 27-July1, 2007. A diverse group of over ten thousand people came for the first ever Forum of it’s kind held in the United States.

Seven out of 10 Americans want most of the troops home from Iraq by April 2008. And a measure being debated in the Senate could make that possible, according to a recent USA Today poll.

According to an Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) report, 142,260 families - about 1,037,615 individuals - have become internally displaced persons (IDPs) since 22 February 2006.

he Howard Governments military campaign to seize control of 73 remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory is meeting stiff resistance.

On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear whether Guantanamo detainees may use habeas corpus to challenge their detentions in federal courts, a right they heretofore have been denied.

Supporters of death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis held a press conference Tuesday at the "Sloppy" Floyd Administration Building where the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles is headquartered.

You may have observed, and this no accident, that there are fewer and fewer struggles for peace and democracy which exist outside the vortex of resistance to the policies of Bush and the US administration.

The founding fathers of the American nation could not imagine that what they were proclaiming at that time, as any other historical society, was carrying within it the seeds of its own transformation.

According to various media reports, the Bush administration is fighting to block a Democratic proposal to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), a federal program that provides health care insurance to low-income families for their children.

On Friday, a pretrial hearing was held at Fort Lewis in the U.S. Army's second attempt to court-martial Lt. Ehren Watada for refusing to deploy to Iraq in June 2006. Lt. Watada continues to argue that the Iraq war is illegal under U.S. and international law.

The Bush administration is claiming “executive privilege” in denying Congress the right to subpoena two former White House political advisers (including Harriet Miers) to testify under oath in Congress's attempt to investigate the firing of nine federal prosecutors.

n order to increase the productivity of the major crops, it is essential to increase the use of improved seeds and also ensure a balanced application of fertilizers on the basis of preparation of a soil fertility map of the state.