According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, which made carbon neutral its 2006 “Word of the Year,” it involves “calculating your total climate-damaging carbon emissions, reducing them where possible, and then balancing your remaining emissions, often by purchasing a carbon offset.”

In a report presented last February in Geneva by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) called upon President Barack Obama to put an end to the violations of human rights that have been a part of United States policy since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

We are now in a time of great opportunity and tremendous danger in our nation’s history. This past year, our nation’s people were active and mobilized like no time since the New Deal.

HAVANA, Cuba, April 18 (acn) US President Barack Obama asked participants at the Summit of the Americas not to keep blaming his country for all the problems facing the western hemisphere, in times when a current global economic crisis emerged in the North is threatening the nations of the region.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, praised President Obama and the Department of Justice for releasing four legal memos on the torture of detainees that had previously been concealed by the Bush administration.

Different countries do have differing standards in regard to how much pollution gasoline and diesel automobile engines are allowed to emit, but the reason you see so fewer diesel cars in the U.S. is more of a choice by automakers than the product of a decree by regulators on either side of the Atlantic.

ATLANTA – Once again, this year's General Assembly was a tremendous disappointment across a wide range of issues concerning working families.

Americans are paying big time now for decades of buying into a hoax. And it wasn't sub-prime mortgages. It was the conservative contention that government is evil and inept.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Con la visita del presidente Barack Obama a México esta semana continuó el escrutinio de lo que dijo o no sobre el tema migratorio en busca de más señales sobre su compromiso de avanzar la reforma migratoria comenzando este año.

It's unclear whether or not Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) wants to be an American. Earlier this month Perry signed a bill declaring Texas sovereignty. More recently, Perry told a crowd at a "tea-bagging" party in Austin that he felt Texas has a right to secede from the union.

Infamously, it was the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) under the Bush administration that twisted US and international law and all rational thought to justify the use of torture and the elimination of civil and human rights for people the president deemed a threat.

As part the economic stimulus package, Vice President Joe Biden presented a $4 billion plan this week in Jefferson City, Missouri to fund the construction of a new "smart" electrical grid.

HAVANA, Cuba, April 16 (acn) – Bolivian President Evo Morales said that US President Barack Obama has the moral and ethical obligation to compensate Cuba for the damages caused by previous US administrations, in reference to the nearly-50-year US economic blockade on the Caribbean nation.

As steam from President Obama's economic stimulus plan builds in the states and new investments in infrastructure and job-saving programs start to flow, do the latest data from the Department of Labor suggest that the dismal unemployment situation may be turning a corner?

When most people think of President Obama's economic stimulus package, they think of new federal investments for infrastructure projects like building roads, renovating bridges, reconstructing railways or re-paving airport runways. But there is more to it than that.

HAVANA, Cuba, April 15 (acn) Cuba could become one of the main topics of the 5th Summit of the Americas that will take place in Trinidad and Tobago next weekend.

If you have some extra money, it may be time to sidle up to the table and get yourself some assets. President Obama and others have said that the “profit ratios are now such that it may be time to invest.”

About seven in 10 Americans favor new diplomatic relations with Cuba and eliminating the most egregious parts of the US embargo against that island country, according to the results of a recent survey released this week by WorldPublicOpinion.org.

The size and scope of new tax breaks for working families implemented as part of President Obama's economic stimulus package are historic.

While shopping at the Goodwill resale store in Seattle, Washington this past winter, I thought for sure that I had experienced one of those moments of great intellectual clarity. For the life of me, I cannot remember what those moments are called, but the passage of time and the swirl of work related distractions have not dimmed the vision.