LANSING, Mich. – In a speech to the Michigan Democratic Party convention, held here last weekend, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) criticized John McCain's claim to be more experienced than Barack Obama for the presidency.

Bolivians on Wednesday rejected violent protests in the eastern city of Santa Cruz, and announced actions aimed at forcing a dialogue between the government and the opposition.

Brazilian president Lula da Silva said he would be choosing his successor in 2010 and anticipated there are great chances that the next president could be a woman, although he did not advance names.

KATHMANDU, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Nepali six ruling parties have dwelt on the coalition government's policies and programs to be presented by President Ram Baran Yadav on Wednesday.

ATLANTA -- On May 23rd 2008 the Democratic Party filed a lawsuit against the State of Georgia in Superior Court of Fulton County for requiring a photo ID in order to vote. In a parallel case, the party is suing in State court as well, based on the Georgia Constitution.

As is widely understood, though, economic hardship in Michigan has been driven primarily by so-called free trade policies pushed by the Bush administration and John McCain. But John McCain has also used his vote in the Senate to help companies profit at the expense of taxpayers and working people who need jobs.

Minneapolis police officers with the Ramsey County Sheriff put the free press in jeopardy Monday Sept. 1st by arresting three journalists while they covered public protests in that city at the opening of the Republican National Convention.

"If Palin has two thoughts about foreign policy, she's managed to keep them to herself. Ditto health care. National energy policy. Fiscal policy. You could make a long list, but I'll stop there..."

In a video recorded message to supporters Monday, Sept. 1st, Barack Obama expressed his best wishes on this Labor Day and renewed his pledge to have a worker-friendly presidential administration.

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.

Speaking before a crowd of close to 80,000 people at Denver's Invesco Field and accepting the nomination of the Democratic Party for president, Barack Obama criticized John McCain for supporting and seeking to continue the Bush administration's policies.

Perhaps a couple of decades from now we will all be praising the mainstream media for the wonderful work they have done reporting on our collective insanity.

According to the latest Census Bureau data released just this week, since the last economic recession in 2001, 4.4 million more people have been added to the poverty rolls. More than one and a half million of them have been children.

His speech didn't make prime time TV from the Democratic National Convention, but his story and the promise of how his story could be changed did. Robin Golden is a UAW member who is losing his job as an inspector at Lear Corp., an auto supplier based in Michigan.

The latest McCain campaign screw-up is more interesting because of how it reveals who's behind the campaign to split Democrats between Clinton supporters and the rest of the party – a campaign that, although it is pure invention and tiny, the corporate media has been all too willing to help promote.

A recent TV ad by the McCain campaign titled "Debra" appears to be suggesting that not only is John McCain a "maverick," but that he is also more like Hillary Clinton than George W. Bush.

For some time I have been following developments in Nepal just as I have followed developments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and other countries experiencing dramatic political shifts in Latin America.

UN agencies have appealed for peace in the southern Philippines, where fighting between government forces and Muslim separatist rebels has escalated over the past two weeks and the number displaced is now over 270,000.

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.

Recent polls show that a growing number of voters see a potential McCain administration as pushing the same policies as George W. Bush. But a new Web site, WorseThanBush.org, created by people at the Change to Win labor federation highlights key items on McCain's agenda that would make him a worse president than Bush.