Polypropylene, which is marked with #5 inside the “chasing arrows” symbols on the bottom of plastic containers, is a lighter-weight plastic resin commonly used in dairy and deli packaging.

Cuba has again urged the new US administration of President Barack Obama to act fast towards improving relations between Washington and Havana according to press reports from Guatemala City at the meeting of Non-Aligned Movement foreign affairs ministers meeting.

Somalia and Ethiopia have both confirmed the complete withdrawal of Ethiopia troops from the war-wrecked horn of African nation. The last Ethiopian soldiers had left their base in the southern Somali town of Baidoa, a senior Somali government official said on Monday.

Hugo Chávez Frías, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, considered the decision by newly-inaugurated U.S. President Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo prison camp and to prohibit torture to be good signs.

On 20 January two Palestinian children were killed by unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the Shaaf area, near Jabalia, east of Gaza city, highlighting a new threat to people’s lives in Gaza.

If America ever is going to stop making aggressive war, Americans will first have to get into contact with reality. That’s because US administrations for the past century have periodically frightened the public out of their collective wits.

The missive that House conservatives issued early Friday may be called an "economic recovery plan," but it is as threadbare as the big discount goods store that went belly-up in my neighborhood a few weeks ago and is now in the final days of bankruptcy liquidation.

This argument that human-caused carbon emissions are merely a drop in the bucket compared to greenhouse gases generated by volcanoes has been making its way around the rumor mill for years. And while it may sound plausible, the science just doesn’t back it up.

When it comes to reviving the economy, tax cuts do not work as well as smart public spending. That is economic common sense proven true by the past two attempts at tax-cut stimulus, in 2008 and in 2003-04.

By a vote of 61 to 36, the Senate passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act last week, a bill that had broad support from civil rights organizations, the labor movement, and women's equality groups. In short, key Democratic Party constituencies (i.e. sections of the core forces of the working-class movement) saw this bill as a top priority.

Isn't 60 years of suffering and survival enough to convince Olmert that the will of the Palestinians cannot be broken? How many heaps of wreckage and mutilated bodies will be enough to convince the prime minister that those who fight for their freedom will either be free or will die trying?

Since the start of the new millennium, popular movements in Bolivia have learned to mobilize en masse to form a united front of class and ethnicity to oust two presidents and reject a third candidate. Bolivians have also elected one of their own, who without strong middle class and mestizo support, probably would not have won.

Over the course of the past nearly five decades during which successive US administrations have officially enforced an embargo against Cuba, there have been some instances where top US government officials sought to normalize relations with that island country.

The degree to which the imperial syndrome blinds the outlook of US politicians of every leaning and level can be appreciated in the present inauguration of a new government that was called to rectify the errors made by the departing administration, which have plunged the country into the worst discredit and unpopularity.

In a huge victory for working families, the Senate passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act by a vote of 61 to 36, Thurs. Jan. 22. Because the House already passed the same bill earlier this month, supporters of the measure expect it to go to the president's desk for a signature soon.

On January 11, the 7th anniversary of the opening of the detention camp for “enemy combatants” at Guantanamo, 30 protesters brought Guantanamo to the brunch crowd on Lincoln Rd. Mall, Miami Beach, FL.

The first official acts of President Barack Obama highlight the 180-degree from Bush policies and philosophy his administration has already begun to take.

The Israeli offensive into Gaza ended this past weekend as Israel, under severe international pressure, declared a unilateral ceasefire and ordered the withdrawal of its troops from the Palestinian territory.

After the overthrow of communist governments in Eastern Europe, capitalism was paraded as the indomitable system that brings prosperity and democracy, the system that would prevail unto the end of history.

O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will… Bless us with tears – for a world in which over a billion people exist on less than a dollar a day, where young women from many lands are beaten and raped for wanting an education, and thousands die daily from malnutrition, malaria, and AIDS.