The president's economic recovery package passed in mid-February, and many of its funds for job-creating projects and provisions are on their way to the states. Political motives on the part of some of the nation's governors, however, seem to be causing economic recovery to grind to a halt.

Women's equality and health organizations celebrated the creation of a new White House Council on Women and Girls this week. With an executive order, President Obama created the office to prompt "every government agency" to address "the challenges confronted by women of all ages," a White House press statement explained.

Like every other country on the planet, Mexico is being hit hard by the world financial, banking and economic crisis. As in other relatively poor countries, the impact is shaping up to be especially hard on those who have already lost the most from the neo-liberal policy package of free trade, privatization and austerity.

My job is to meet with people across Southern California and figure out what moves them, why they do what they do. There amidst the variations of a kitchen table, lazy couch, or occasional pristine Starbucks, I have found that unfortunately this thing of being moved is contagious.

INAR DEL RIO, Cuba, March 11 (acn) Construction companies form western Pinar del Rio province, backed by the construction material industry, built 759 houses during January and February, including the replacement of 620 destroyed by the hurricanes that devastated this territory last year.

The Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would remove harsh barriers to joining labor unions, was introduced in Congress, Tuesday March 10th. Supporters of the bill say there are two simple but vital reasons for passing the bill into law: improve democratic rights and boost the economy.

In the last few months, I have found myself uttering the words "worst since the Great Depression" far too often: the worst twelve month job loss since the Great Depression; the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression; the worst rise in home foreclosures since the Great Depression.

Contrary to an expensive ad campaign by corporate lobbyists, US labor law already allows for either a card check or secret ballot process to decide on unionization, Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, told MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show.

An October 2007 article in The Wall Street Journal intended to deprecate Ernesto “Che” Guevara on the 40th anniversary of his assassination in Bolivia. Instead, the article was an unintentionally eloquent description of his significance in the Americas.

Aerial wolf gunning involves stalking and shooting wolves from low-flying planes and helicopters. The practice yields better results than traditional ground-based hunting since it allows hunters to cover lots of ground quickly and track prey from an unobstructed “bird’s eye” vantage point.

When you compare battery to gasoline power, electricity wins hands down. A 2007 study by the non-profit Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) calculated that powering a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) would cost the equivalent of roughly 75 cents per gallon of gasoline.

Do we leave change up to President Obama, or is it up to us?

Monthly inflation in Venezuela dropped to 1.3 percent in February from 2.3 percent in January, an indication that last year’s high rate of monthly inflation may be coming under control. Also, the unemployment rate in January was 9.5 percent, a decrease from what it was at the beginning of 2008 but represents a typical seasonal increase since December.

ATLANTA - About 200 residents of southeast Atlanta gathered at the First Iconium Baptist Church Tuesday night, March 03, 2009, to share their concerns about crime with city leaders as well as police and fire representatives.

It might be difficult for the uninitiated observer to accept the fact that a racist, crypto-fascist politician is on his way to becoming the second most important figure in the Israeli political arena. It is, therefore, worth re-establishing the factual basis of the charge that we are dealing with the truly ugly face of racism, pure and unadulterated.

Marking International Women’s Day on 8 March a new survey has painted a grim picture for Iraqi women who it says are suffering a “silent emergency” as they endure insecurity, poverty and a lack of basic services.

Across the world, large majorities of people agree that women should have equal rights and that their governments and international institutions like the United Nations have a role to play in promoting gender equality, a new poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org has found.

From the deepening economic crisis to war in Afghanistan, health care reform, right-wing obstructionism and hate-mongering, climate change, and workers rights, President Obama has his hands full in 2009.

Major newspaper, broadcast and cable stories mentioning healthcare reform in the week leading up to President Barack Obama's March 5 healthcare summit rarely mentioned the idea of a single-payer national health insurance program, according to a new FAIR study.

The broken health care system in the US is a certifiable failure. Close to 90 million people went without health insurance at some point in 2007-2008, according to a new report by the advocacy group Families USA.