Yesterday evening I logged onto the internet in order to check my web mail, and was caught off guard by a Yahoo! News article concerning the “uncontacted tribe” that has been discovered near the Brazil-Peru border.

The raid carried out by alleged Colombian paramilitaries on a bordering Ecuadorian locality revives Friday the diplomatic crisis between both countries, which have severed diplomatic relations since March.

The real entertainment regarding campaign '08 isn't Senator Barack Obama. It's watching how people react to him, Black and white. From Blacker-than-thou commentators to pesky Black conservatives.

A trade delegation led by the Texas Department of Agriculture is in Cuba to negotiate a deal between the island country's government and agribusiness in that state, according to the Dallas Morning News.

On the early morning of May 21, the U.S. Aegis missile destroyer O’Kane based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, made a call at Sukumo Port in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan.

An increasing number of working families are "being swamped by a rising tide of income instability," says a new report released by labor-backed think-tank Economic Policy Institute this week.

Since the occupation began in 1967, Israel has exercised almost total control over the Palestinian population registry and has sole power to determine who is a Palestinian resident.

The strange logic of western political discourse consists of paradigms such as the following: the "Third World" is named as such by the "First World" because it somehow inherently inferior and developmentally backwards compared to the "First World," even though its shortcomings are largely due to exploitative, extractive "First World" economic policies.

On May 5th, 2008 Canada's Trade Minister, David Emerson, proudly declared that Canada is "very close" to concluding free trade negotiations with Colombia.

George W. Bush may not be much of a president but his latest comments comparing his Iraq war to World War II indicate he is even less of a historian.

Marda Dunsky’s book Pens and Swords presents a very strong, well-referenced argument illuminating the bias within American media reports on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The price of crude oil more than doubled in 12 months and more than quadrupled in five yeas since May 2003. The big oil corporations empty people’s pockets and pump out record profits, while the government sits by and says there is little else it can do.

During the first week of this month there was good news and bad news. The good news is Cariol Horne's gag-order was lifted. The bad news: she was found guilty of nine of the 11 charges and was subsequently fired a few days later by Buffalo Police Chief H. McCarthy Gipson.

Member states of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) signed a pact on Friday, May 23 in Brasília to establish judicial and political components for the emerging, limited union. On the docket was a plan to create a military coordinating component of UNASUR, the Conselho Sul-Americano de Defesa (CSD).

Pero si yo tuviera que resumirlo y proyectar un escenario, creo que nos enfrentamos a varios años con una economía muy débil y temblorosa que para mucha gente equivaldrá a una recesión prolongada, aunque no lo será formalmente.

If I had to put it all together and lay out a scenario, I think we are facing years of a very weak and stumbling economy that will feel to many people like an extended recession, even if it is not formally one.

Prominent New Dealer, Rexford Guy Tugwell, author of The Battle for Democracy, was a "brain truster" or policy advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt and served under Department of Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace. Tugwell was typical of the “new people” who had come to Washington in 1933 with Roosevelt’s election.

Investigators and researchers have long shown operational connections between exiled Nazis and US intelligence services who collaborated to target progressive movements in Latin American, reports the Cuban News Agency.

Missourians accomplished something this month no other state has when faced with a similar challenge. The people of the "show me" state scored a major victory May 4th when a campaign led by California millionaire Ward Connerly failed to deliver the required number of signatures to get an initiative on the November ballot that would have banned affirmative action.

For the past several months I have been receiving TIME magazine. The subscription originally started as a gift from someone unknown, with my last name spelled wrong, lasted for a year. When it came up for renewal, I stalled until the price came down to fifty cents a copy, a much more reasonable price for the quality of the magazine.