October 29th, 1956, just days after the Soviet Union invaded Hungary with ground forces, the Israeli army swept in Egyptian territory. This action launched the first stage in an ultimately failed joint Anglo-French effort to regain its colonial possession: the Suez Canal.

The friendship between the common people of Canada and the USA was underscored by the visit to Ottawa on February 19th of US President Barack Obama. Thousands of Canadians discouraged by officialdom from greeting the popular US President, nonetheless spontaneously converged on Parliament Hill.

ATLANTA – Former Georgia State University Lecturer, and current PhD student, Matthew Cardinale, today, February 23, 2009, filed an eight page complaint against GSU Sociology Department Chair Donald Reitzes, and Lecturer and Teaching Director Mindy Stombler.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 23 (acn) Grenada´s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism, Peter Charles David, reiterated his country´s rejection of the US economic, financial and commercial blockade of Cuba.

I need a big black stimulus. The $15 per week tax cut, courtesy of the Obama plan, will allow me to introduce diversity into my ramen noodle diet, but will not provide much else. African Americans need just a tad bit more.

Hugo Chávez has won yet another victory in the referendum to amend the constitution and pave way for the removal of term limits for the election of a person to all the elected posts.

Remember all those headlines about how the baby boom cohorts just lost several trillion dollars in home equity due to the collapse of the housing bubble and how they lost trillions more in their retirement accounts as a result of the stock market crash?

Here are a dozen books Americans need to read as they paint a realistic picture of how our government’s policies are inflicting needless suffering at home and globally.

At a press conference on Friday, February 20, Italian Special Commissioner Paola Costa and US Consul General from Milan, Daniel Weygandt, announced final approval for a new US military base in Vicenza, Italy.

While most of the world fixates on how to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases we emit into the atmosphere, scientists and engineers around the world are busy working on various “geo-engineering” technologies to mitigate global warming and its effects.

New projections of the impact of climate change make headlines every day, but a report by a leading research institution has underlined the need for "meaningful data" to help aid agencies prepare for the future.

In the middle of one of the worst economic crises in American history and with massive spending projected to create new jobs and loosen the credit markets, the Obama administration has called a "fiscal responsibility" summit for this Monday, Feb. 23.

ATLANTA – "The system we have for taking care of our veterans is more hostile than the IRS," journalist and author Aaron Glantz used to describe the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs during a talk at The Carter Center Tuesday night, February 17, 2009.

Though it has not received a lot of press to date, the industry is on the case—in part for the sake of its own survival, and thanks to the hard work of a handful of green groups, guitar makers and wood suppliers.

If those numbers are to be considered alarming, consider the situation facing African American workers. This January the Black jobless rate hit 12.9 percent; it was 9.2 percent in January 2008. That's an increase of 3.7 percent points over 13 months.

It was the passage of the landmark Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, the same year that Medicare and Medicaid were enacted, that marked the birth of America's Community Health Centers (also known as Federally Qualified Health Centers).

In an old building at the edge of Los Angeles' downtown garment district, and under a freeway in West L.A., day labor centers are places where immigrant workers look for work, find shelter and friendship, and organize themselves.

Newspapers are now filled with articles on the great economic crisis engulfing world capitalism. Few leave us any the wiser. Most of them desperately attempt to explain how it all went wrong without questioning its very essence.

The so-called "Cuban problem" was never very important to the United States, given the size of the island and its scant economic significance relative to its size and technological-industrial development, and the financial opulence of the superpower.

A coalition of Georgia religious and human rights activists led by Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP) spent Tuesday, February 17, 2009, asking state lawmakers to put the death penalty on hold in Georgia.