On this episode, we play our recent interview with Teresa Albano, editor of the Peoples World, peoplesworld.org. Albano discussed the PW's editorial philosophy, it's role in reporting on labor and democratic struggles, and some of the big changes it is undergoing this fall.

World leaders, civilians and celebrities alike took time off their busy schedules on Saturday to pay tribute to the father of the South African nation on his 91st birthday, the South African Press Association reported.

The concept of examining a new presidency at the end of its first 100 days began with the first term of the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency.

In a unanimous ruling today, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld a 2007 lower court ruling that a 1998 law banning same-sex unions was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ruled that the 1998 law violated the equal protection clause in the Iowa Constitution.

With the collapse of several banks and insurance companies, the near bankruptcy of Detroit automakers, a 50 percent drop in world stock exchanges and an almost complete arrest of credit markets, an economic era has ended.

The election of Barack Obama has been historical. Historical not simply because Barack Obama is the first African American president, but also because his election victory represents another page in the history of a struggle of a whole people who have aspired to freedom and equality.

Barack Obama's victory is indeed an historic breakthrough for US politics. In a country that enforced a system of legalized racism until just 40 years ago, and that was founded on white supremacy, Black slavery and Native genocide, the election of the first Black president is cause for jubilation.

Any evenhanded comparison of the Colombian and Venezuelan governments’ human rights records would have to note that, though Venezuela’s record is far from perfect, that country is by every measure a safer place than Colombia to live, vote, organize unions and political groups, speak out against the government or practice journalism.

Featured in a revealing interview in the Winter 2009 edition of Equality magazine, a publication of the Human Rights Campaign, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) discussed his new position as vice chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and his caucus's agenda for the upcoming session.

The House of Representatives moved to help promote equal pay for equal work by passing two bills last week, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and the Paycheck Fairness Act.

Many people shed tears across the country after President-elect Barack Obama claimed victory Nov. 4th. For many of an older generation – white and Black – the victory was linked to the struggles and sacrifices of the civil rights movement.

Get ready for it. The signs are already there – and not just from the Republicans. Leftists, like Alexander Cockburn of CounterPunch.org has gotten into the act.

On October 14, 2008, about 20 protesters representing many humanitarian organizations gathered to protest a jail in Cobb County, Georgia, which houses illegal immigrants who have been arrested under Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1996.

The hardening of French immigration policy, following Nicolas Sarkozy's appointment as Interior Minister in 2002 and his subsequent election as President in 2007, is not the exception in the European Union but the rule.

Over 1.7 million US citizens now live in prison, a 300 per cent increase since 1980. In some US cities, one-third of all Black men are in jail, while spending on prisons has overtaken allocations for higher education in California.

After weeks of negative campaigning and mud-slinging, John McCain made a stunning admission this week. During a presidential forum Sept. 11th, McCain said, "It's easy for me to go to Washington and, frankly, be somewhat divorced from the day-to-day challenges people have."

(APN) ATLANTA - The Georgia attorney general's office issued a death warrant Wednesday, September 03, 2008, for Troy Anthony Davis, a man convicted of the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail.

People are ready for a big change away from Bush-McCain politics, according to a new article from Yes! Magazine, titled "Our Own Agenda: 10 Policies for a Better America," which compiles the results of a number of polls and surveys on a host of issues.

The Philippines Communist Party is best known for leading a heroic and successful armed struggle against Japanese occupation between 1941 and 1945 and an equally heroic but ultimately unsuccessful armed resistance to the new US-backed government from 1946.