After having successfully engineered the disintegration of former Yugoslavia fostering internecine conflict and instability in the Balkans – giving a modern meaning to the word "Balkanization" – imperialism aided by local chauvinistic outfits is now targeting the Caucasus.

The Sydney Morning Herald made its assessment of the Beijing Olympics under the headline "China misses games opportunity." It trotted out the usual criticisms with a new one thrown in – "too much organization" and "robbing the events of a lively audience" because some events had empty seats.

The aerosol spray can has a storied history in the United States. First invented in the 1920s by U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists to pressurize insect spray, American soldiers eventually used the technology to help ward off Malaria in the South Pacific during World War II.

The other night, the Rev. James Dobson's ministry asked all believers to pray for a storm on Thursday night so that the Obama acceptance speech outdoors in Denver would have to be canceled.

A jazz version of Rage Against the Machine, Minnesota-based Junkyard Empire blends jazz instrumentals, hip hop, and socially consciously lyrics to create a fresh sound.

People are ready for a big change away from Bush-McCain politics, according to a new article from Yes! Magazine, titled "Our Own Agenda: 10 Policies for a Better America," which compiles the results of a number of polls and surveys on a host of issues.

New Abasan village in South Eastern Gaza looks, and feels, almost haunted. Every third or fourth house is a mound of rubble, or else has been partially destroyed, and the village streets are dusty and devoid of life.

Bracing for Armageddon is an insightful well documented history of the myth and business of “civil defense.” Civil defense gave us installment plan bomb shelters, highways to evacuate cities, Reagan’s “Star Wars” continental civil defense in outer space, and the present recycled Reagan policies of the Bush administration.

The end of the Second World War with Japan is a story of the clashes of three empires – the struggling Soviets, the decline of the Japanese, and the ascendancy of the American. The common media perception is that the use of the atomic bombs ended the war...

Speaking before a crowd of close to 80,000 people at Denver's Invesco Field and accepting the nomination of the Democratic Party for president, Barack Obama criticized John McCain for supporting and seeking to continue the Bush administration's policies.

Perhaps a couple of decades from now we will all be praising the mainstream media for the wonderful work they have done reporting on our collective insanity.

To run a full marathon experts suggest that the aspiring athlete requires at least six months of rigorous training, proper gear, a particular diet, regular check-ups, mental focus and preparation, and a variety of gadgets depending on one's budget.

"For almost half a century, the United States has imposed a trade embargo against Cuba. And yet it sometimes seems barely visible," says an article published Aug. 14, 2008, in the printed edition of the British weekly The Economist.

The corporate media got caught this week carrying water for the McCain campaign. According to ABC News, media pundits, talk shows, and "news" shows have given free coverage to McCain campaign videos that the campaign falsely billed as TV ads criticizing Barack Obama.

Just after the Bush administration prematurely announced a new occupation agreement with the Iraqi government, that included the movement of US troops out of some Iraqi cities, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki this week insisted again that any new agreement must include a timetable for withdrawal.

According to the latest Census Bureau data released just this week, since the last economic recession in 2001, 4.4 million more people have been added to the poverty rolls. More than one and a half million of them have been children.

His speech didn't make prime time TV from the Democratic National Convention, but his story and the promise of how his story could be changed did. Robin Golden is a UAW member who is losing his job as an inspector at Lear Corp., an auto supplier based in Michigan.

The conflict in Georgia is a new phase in the test of strength which the Russians and the Americans have been waging in the region for over 15 years. The United States and its successive presidents consider Central Asia and the Caucasus to be highly strategic places.

Recently it’s been revealed that the federal government has been under-estimating the number of American citizens infected with the AIDS virus.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev defended the legality of the recognition of sovereignty of the South Ossetia and Abkhazia autonomous Caucasian regions, now rejected by Georgia.