Week after week, we see the global economy contracting at a pace worse than predicted by the gloomiest analysts. We are now, it is clear, in no ordinary recession but are headed for a global depression that could last for many years.

In a tent in front of Shifa hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza, a sign on the photo of a young child bleeding from wounds from the Israeli attack on Gaza read “Gaza Will Not Die.”

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations (ECLAC), Ana Bárcena, confirmed the positive social statistics referred to by President Hugo Chávez during an interview with journalist Patricia Janiot last week on CNN.

With millions of homes scheduled for foreclosure and no apparent solution to the credit crisis on the horizon, ACORN, a coalition of community organizations, has launched a campaign to help homeowners and renters stay in their homes and to demand a a comprehensive policy that helps homeowners renegotiate the terms of their mortgage and ease repayment.

Immigrants in the United States, as well as activists supporting immigrant workers’ rights, are wondering what the impact of the current national and world financial crisis will be on immigration, and on efforts to get a better deal for immigrant workers, with or without papers, under the new administration.

Progressive Democrats of America will take to the phones on Lincoln's Birthday to call all U.S. representatives and senators and encourage their support for HR 676, The National Health Insurance Act, reintroduced last week by Rep. John Conyers.

The Buy America provision in the economic recovery package Congress now is finalizing has some rich and powerful voices against it.

To the millions of families and individuals who will be receiving a share of the federal government's $42 billion stimulus package – if it passes through the Senate – the money could not come soon enough.

I wrote recently about the possibility of outgrowing the use of war. Today I got a book in the mail that makes a strong argument intended as a tool for ending war.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 9 (acn) Cuba described as very positive the results of its presentation at the Universal Periodic Review mechanism (EPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC).

After ignoring the growth of an $8 trillion housing bubble, fueled by junk loans issued by over-leveraged banks, the "free-trade" crew is worried that a "buy America" provision in the stimulus bill will give us a trade war leading to another Great Depression.

Under strong pressure from constituents, the US Senate today, Feb. 9, knocked down an attempted GOP filibuster of President Obama's $800 billion economic recovery package.

The German Multinational company, Bayer, had been granted a patent for its drug, Sorafenib tosylate (marketed as Nexavar by the company), in India a few months back.

From the pains Democrats take to out-argue and/or to compromise with the fringe minority party called the Republicans you'd think no other course of action was available, specifically you'd have to assume that the filibuster – the power of senators representing 11 percent of us to block all work by the House and Senate – is written in stone.

The United Steelworkers today called for an end to the myths and mistruths about “Buy America” and domestic sourcing that are clouding the debate and generating roadblocks to creating good jobs and renewing our economy.

America’s electricity grid is built upon what many consider to be an antiquated principle: Make large amounts of electricity and have it always available to end users whether they need it or not.

As record numbers of American workers filed for unemployment benefits in the final days of January and new government data released Feb. 6 revealed that 598,000 more jobs were lost last month, Senators have stalled the president's economic recovery package.

This years' gathering at Davos appears to have been a complete dud. It's hard for one who wasn't there to say how complete but if President Obama is reading the reports from the celebrated Swiss mountaintop he has to be glad he didn't go and that he didn't send a high powered delegation.

Who would have dreamed a year ago we would be here today with a new government and our first African American President, Barack Obama. This was an election that changed history. It forced us to face up to and struggle with issues of race and class.

Prime Minister Aso Taro in his policy speech emphasized his intention to “reinforce the alliance relationship” with the “Japan-US alliance as the cornerstone.”