Corn producers predicted hunger and social disaster in Mexico"s poorest sectors, due to the lifting of tariffs on corn imports from the United States and Canada, by virtue of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

People making a New Year's resolution to consume less should bolster their resolve by reading Jared Diamond's "What's Your Consumption Factor?" in Wednesday's New York Times [op-ed 1-2-2008].

US Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) emerged victorious from the January 03, 2007, Iowa Caucuses, claiming the first victories of the 2008 presidential contest.

The victims of the 2002 coup d'etat in Venezuela backed an amnesty decreed by President Hugo Chávez for crimes linked to that event, amid criticisms by the opposition, which proposes to expand that measure.

Behind a luxurious five-star hotel and close to Bethlehem, residents of Aida refugee camp – home to nearly 5,000 people – say their lives have been adversely affected by the Israeli restrictions on movement, in particular the Barrier built around the city.

The sponsor of Hollywood's Golden Globe film and television awards said on Wednesday it has begun talks with TV writers aimed at allowing its honors to be broadcast as planned despite the ongoing screenwriters strike.

Though actions blocking imports of subsidized US grains ended Wednesday, rejection of the North American Free Trade Agreement keeps growing in Mexico.

Benazir Bhutto's murder in the garrison city Rawalpindi is a setback for everyone who was hoping to see some form of accountable democratic government emerge after years of military dictatorship.

The central goal of the United States is control of the planet, power to install governments subservient to its demands, power to privatize and deregulate the economies of every nation in the world, the power to inflict on peoples everywhere “free market” corporate capitalism.

So far the campaign has shown, to any independent, intellectually astute observer, that there is currently no such thing as a free election in this country. Since Mr. Putin was appointed #1 in the electoral list, all the government’s administrative resources, all the power structures and ministries, are being used on behalf of his party’s campaign.

In 1905 Albert Einstein, presented the Annus Mirabilis ("Wonderful Year") Papers, in which he explained the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc2, which lead to the development of nuclear energy.

If the last days of 2007 are any indication, U.S. President George W. Bush's last year in office is shaping up as grim and lonely, says a commentary published here by Interpress Service.

Social class is usually treated as though it doesn't exist. But for working families struggling without good jobs or adequate pay, who lack health care or decent housing, the systemic economic divisions that determine their life chances.

The death toll rose to at least 30, with 39 others wounded as a suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Zaiyounah on Tuesday.