Marvel comics have a history of conscripting the help of superheroes during a war. They called up Captain America in 1941 to fight the nazis and Iron Man in 1963 to help them against the communists.

The Ministry of Defense has revealed that a Ground Self-Defense Force member committed suicide early last year, bringing the total number of suicides by GSDF personnel after returning home following their Iraqi mission to eight.

A poll conducted in the key battleground state of Florida shows Republican presidential nominee John McCain winning no more than 44% of the vote against either Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama or Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Weeks after the invasion of Iraq began, Fox News Channel host Brit Hume delivered a scathing speech critiquing the media's supposedly pessimistic assessment of the Iraq War.

BAGHDAD, 1 May 2008 (IRIN) - Government officials and residents of Baghdad's mainly Shia district of Sadr City on 30 April accused pro-Moqtada al-Sadr militiamen of attacking aid convoys and closing down schools.

Managua, May 1 (Prensa Latina) Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega denounced the war against his government by the United States through its embassy in Managua.

The temerity of US imperialism’s advise to India on how it should deal with the visit of Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to New Delhi on April 29 reconfirms, if such reconfirmation was ever necessary, that the USA seeks to deal with India as its “subordinate ally.”

One million tourists visited Cuba in the first quarter of 2008, and did so in record time, 22 days earlier than in 2007, officials announced at a celebration on Tuesday at the Compay Segundo Salon in the Hotel Nacional.

We waited breathless. Breathing heavily was hazardous under these somewhat exceptional circumstances. The army, my father often advised, was sensitive to the slightest movements or sounds, including a whisper, a cough, or God forbid, a sneeze.

In the big immigrant marches that swept the country on May Day in 2006 and 2007, one sign said it all: "We are Workers, not Criminals!" Often it was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they'd just come from work in a factory, cleaning an office building, or picking grapes.

NEW YORK - Trade unionists, housing activists, and residents of New York City public housing gathered at City Hall today to protest the Bush administration's proposed budget cuts to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).

Robert Mugabe government continues to delay democratic victory of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and increases oppression.

I just listened to Bill O'Reilly tell actor/activist Matthew Modine that we must kill all the "Islamic fundamentalists" in the world – wipe them off the face of the Earth – in order to protect America.

Don't expect any labor union to endorse John McCain for president in the general election. The wounds from the Bush-Cheney Administration are just too deep. But, their reasons aren't because of social justice issues that once pervaded the labor movement, but on bread-and-butter issues that have dominated unions the past five decades.

If you don't support a gas tax holiday as the solution to high energy costs and economic woes then you're "out of touch" with ordinary working people, Hillary Clinton and John McCain recently claimed.

Aboriginal concerns about the Northern Territory Intervention are about to be voiced on the world stage. A delegation of more than 40 Indigenous Australians left for New York to attend the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

The current 1.1 billion people worldwide without access to potable water only opens one of the smaller windows on the injustices and the multiple casualties being wrought by private water-related industries.