Within the current sub-prime mortgage and financial bubbles, and food and energy price increases, we are witnessing the logical and inevitable economic consequences of over-population, resource scarcity, inequitable and unreasonable consumption, and unsustainable economic growth.

The latest battles in Basra, Iraq's second largest city and a vital oil seaport, furnished ample instances of misleading and manipulative practice in corporate journalism today.

Leaders and social activists from a number of countries are taking part in the 7th Hemisphere-wide Conference of Struggle against Free Trade Agreements, which begins today in the Cuban capital’s International Conference Center.

The public is infuriated with the string of serious crimes committed by U.S. military personnel stationed in Japan as well as with the recent collision between a Self-Defense Forces Aegis-equipped destroyer that supports U.S. military operations and a Japanese fishing boat.

BAGHDAD, 10 April 2008 (IRIN) - A humanitarian crisis is looming in two sprawling Shia suburbs in Baghdad, as clashes continue between government forces (backed by US soldiers) and Shia militants, members of parliament and residents said on 10 April.

During an endless airplane trip from hell yesterday that included an extended stay in Chicago's scenic O'Hare airport, I had the misfortune to read one book about where our tax dollars go and another book that was, indirectly, about where they do not go.

No one—at least no human—knows his name, or even if he had a name. We don't know where or when he was born. We know nothing about his life. But we know a lot about his death.

Last night, I watched the newly-released DVD, There Will Be Blood. It was a bad experience that reaffirmed my disgust with most of mainstream Hollywood’s film industry, and left me understanding more fully than ever why most of my reviews are of independent films.

“War,” the progressive activist Randolph Bourne wrote during WWI, “is the health of the state.” It is also the “health” of military contractors, and the huge corporate side of the military industrial complex.

Havana, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) Despite rhetoric about their alleged benefits, the results of free trade agreements in Latin America are far from expected, experts attending the 7th Hemispheric Meeting of the Struggle against FTAs and for Integration of the Peoples said.

On almost any given night in this country, there are meetings organized by people who are committed to ending this war, by people who have become committed over these last five years to basically changing US foreign policy.

The European Court of Justice ruling that a Polish building subcontractor can undercut agreed industrial wage rates in Germany wasn't a surprise, given the court's previous form over last December's Viking and Laval cases.

THE PLATFORM was crowded again, and there she was, the woman who reminded me so much of my own mother. Not in appearance, but in attitude.

In a recent essay on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s advocacy for peace, titled "Vocation of Agony: A Personal Meditation on Dr. King's Legacy," Rev. Osagyefo Sekou elaborated a stirring call for deep moral change in America.

Fragmented and divided, we are all individually searching for the freedom which allows us to be ourselves and follow our dreams. All of us who are on this planet today have different realities, different abilities and different points of view.

Historian and contributing editor of Political Affairs, Gerald Horne has a new book titled Blows Against Empire, a series of nine powerful essays on contemporary crisis of U.S. imperialism as it confronts the world.

As we remember the 40th anniversary of that dark day of April 4th 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, it's worth recalling the reaction by Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star Roberto Clemente.

On the campaign trail, Senator Obama and Senator Clinton both say that the war in Iraq needs to end. Military Families Speak Out has one question for them: what are they doing now as sitting United States Senators, to bring our loved ones home from Iraq?

It is doubtful the merger of corporate giants enhances their creativity or benefits consumers, a distinguished authority on business regulation writes.

The husband-and-wife team of town planners Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are typically credited as the founders of new urbanism, a style of community design that embraces mixed use (commercial and residential) development.