Humanitarian organizations face tough choices if the global financial crisis affects their income, as some analysts predict. Although it is too soon to predict the full impact of the crisis on funding, some agencies said they were reviewing possible cutbacks and some have started tightening their belts.

Democrats in Congress pressed forward this week with plans to expand health care coverage. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) put out a detailed plan, Nov. 12, that called for a variety of means aimed at different population groups to ensure near-universal health care.

In the aftermath of a truly historic election, the right-wing and its long-time centrist political allies have been trying to regroup and get a handle on just exactly what happened.

President-elect Barack Obama is a nice guy and a fresh political face. His election on November 4 (2008), as president of the United States, is a great personal achievement. At the very least, he deserves the benefit of the doubt.

ATLANTA - Funding cuts by the State of Georgia and the redirection of funds have left Planned Parenthood of Georgia (PPGA) scrambling to make up for a lost family planning contract worth $420,000 with Fulton County.

This year, media mogul and former Australian citizen Rupert Murdoch has begun a series called The Golden Age of Freedom which, while they expose some the corporate agenda for the near future, have so far sounded more like a last hurrah for the champions of capitalist globalization.

Sending GSDF helicopters to war zones in Afghanistan means directly supporting the war, which is in violation of the Japanese Constitution. Such an act will give a helping hand to causing civilian casualties.

The capitalist world is in turmoil, with widespread financial crisis, bankruptcy of the largest investment and insurance corporations, massive injection of state funds to avert banking collapse, stock market declines world wide, capital flight, and the onset of economic recession in the US and the Euro-zone.

The US government has failed to live up to the expectations of its citizens regarding the provision of basic needs, a new international poll released this week showed.

Three US companies were recently fined more than US $43,000 by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury Department for violating the US economic, trade and financial blockade of Cuba.

The market mechanism is an effective control device for a myriad of unimportant decisions, and as an arbiter of the economic value of a commodity. But it fails important equity, efficiency, and stability tests.

Leaders of the top 20 industrial and big emerging-market countries will be asked to reaffirm their commitments to development assistance at the emergency summit on 15 November convened by President George W Bush to address the global financial crisis.

It was just after 11 p.m. Tuesday evening, in the Black ghetto of Jackson Ward, in Richmond, Virginia. CNN had just projected an image of Barack Obama as certain to be elected President of the United States.

Congress established the original Veterans' Day to celebrate the end of World War I. That war saw the deaths of tens of millions and the continent of Europe ravaged. The world craved peace and sought new measures, as idealistic as they may have been, to make peace permanent.

The Iraqi CP leader, Hamid Majeed Mousa, the Secretary of the Central Committee, spoke in detail about the party’s position regarding the Iraq-US Agreement, and relevant issues and developments, during a meeting held in Baghdad on 31 October 2008.

KENNESAW - On Saturday, October 24, 2008, Kennesaw State University hosted Iraq Veterans Against the War as well as Dahr Jamail, a North American Correspondent for Inter-Press Service and author of the book, Beyond the Green Zone.

Privacy advocates across Canada have been struggling to prevent the Ontario provincial government from passing legislation that will see radio identifiers and biometric data inserted into future Ontarian drivers licenses.

The battle to define the outcome of the 2008 elections began in earnest just seconds after the TV networks projected Barack Obama the winner. Most commentators focused on the historic nature of Obama's win, while conservatives immediately dropped their accusations that Obama advocated socialism.

With the election of Barack Obama, a wide range of thoughtful commentary has centered on how our country has changed and how race plays less of a determining factor in our social life.

At a very early stage in the campaign, I wrote to friends that though Obama is not a leftist or a part of the left, he must, in the given conditions be the candidate of the left in the United States.