New Brunswick, N.J. – The U.S. operates 90% of all foreign military bases on earth, said peace activist Cathy Goodman at an Apr. 15 event held at Rutgers University co-sponsored by the U.S. Peace Council and Rutgers Against the War.

Thanks in part to pressure from non-profits like Greenpeace International—which has published quarterly versions of its landmark “Guide to Greener Electronics” since 2006—computer makers now understand that consumers care about the environmental footprints of the products they use.

The concept of empire has been discussed quite rigorously by various authors since the advent of the Bush administration, with views ranging from neocon jingoism through more academic apologists to those berating empire for the ills of the world.

The collateral damage in Iraq is most of the damage, and intentionally producing it is most of the mission. This is one of the conclusions I take away from an important new book by Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian called "Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians."

Global warming alarmists are right. Scientists and activists who claim that climate change may impact weather patterns such as tropical storms and hurricanes appear to know what they are talking about, according to a recent article in ScienceDaily.com.

The ABC News-moderated debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, April 16, has been universally panned. Most commentators have pointed to ABC's highlighting of gaffes, scandal, and personality in the effort to get the candidates to snipe at each other rather than talk about issues that people care about.

Most of our readers probably know that the death penalty has been abolished in many parts of the world. The Council for Europe, for example, campaigns against it and has even established October 10 as European Day Against the Death Penalty to challenge those conservatives who wish to reestablish it.

The guards at Guantanamo are terrified. Even a man with no legs (amputated after being intentionally exposed to extreme cold by American guards in Afghanistan) is treated as a horrifying threat.

At the House of Councilors Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on April 8, Japanese Communist Party representative Inoue Satoshi urged the government to use its initiative for the upcoming G8 Summit at Toyako Town in Hokkaido to take up the issue of abolition of nuclear weapons.

I am an atheist. And I believe strongly that irrational worship of invisible ghosts and absent gods impedes humanity from taking responsibility for and fashioning a just, peaceful, equitable and sustainable world.

National media have echoed presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain's criticism of Democratic candidate Barack Obama for failing to promise to participate in the public financing program for the general election--even though McCain's campaign has said it may not participate in the program either.

I have decided to write this reflexion after listening to a public comment disseminated by one of the media of the Revolution, which I will not specifically mention.

Bush refused to go quietly, but congressional Democrats dealt a stinging blow to one of his administration's top priorities this week when they refused to hold a vote on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement and stripped the bill of its three-month deadline.

Mérida, April 15, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- A South American defense council to mediate regional conflicts and defend South America from foreign intervention could be concretized this year, the Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said after meeting with President Hugo Chávez in Caracas Monday.

Since yesterday Burkina-Faso, the smallest county in West Africa, has been on strike. The cause is the high cost of living. Trade unions, first among them the General Labour Confederacy of Burkina-Faso (GTTB), demand pay rises and above all significant cuts in basic foods prices.

For many years, ever since the commencement of the modern Olympics in 1896, the US and European powers have controlled the Olympic Games. They have come to believe that they "own" them. The figures tell the story.

Changes being introduced by Raúl Castro are fundamental and probably irreversible. One of the most anticipated leadership transitions of this epoch—that of Fidel Castro in Cuba—has been underway for the better part of a year in the absence of political instability or the upheaval predicted, or hoped for, by American policymakers and exiles in Miami.

It's not the biggest political story of the day, but maybe it should be. A behind the scenes confrontation between Congressional Democrats and the Bush administration could block a White House effort to cut or eliminate funding for programs that help children with disabilities and other health problems.

The Iraq Moratorium, a nationwide grassroots movement uniting individuals and groups against the Iraq war, will be observed on Friday, April 18.

Are Western leaders truly defending human rights? Is it possible to criticize the Chinese government without embracing the Dalai Lama’s theocratic project?