The Communist Party's program, "Election 2008: Help Make History," addresses the urgent situation and the tremendous opportunity to defeat the ultra-right in this election and create the conditions to turn the country around.

Venezuela does not only represent a political and a sovereignty problem to the United States of America, but additionally Venezuela owns the energy resources from which the American economy of tomorrow depends.

BERLIN – I attended the big rally with Obama in Berlin Thursday evening, not as a press representative but as one of the crowd. And what a giant crowd it was! The news reports counted “over 200,000” but to someone sandwiched in so tight I could hardly lift my hand to scratch my itching nose.

The Ecuadorian city of Montecristi, headquarters of the Constituent Assembly, is celebrating the approval of a new Constitution that represents the hope for a better nation.

¿Alguna vez has oído mencionar a la Fundación Nacional por la Democracia (Nacional Endowment for Democracy, o NED, por sus siglas en inglés)? Muy poca gente la conoce. Sin embargo, la NED recibe fondos del erario público y lleva acabo una política externa sin ningún grado de transparencia ni control público.

There's "a change a-comin'." It's gonna be big, huge. Think China earthquake; think tsunami. Like an earthquake it's going to shake the foundations of US political life from the ground up.

An unprecedented discussion is sweeping the country about how to change direction for the common good. Tens of thousands of union members are knocking on the doors of millions of co-workers and their families to talk about the issues.

Dozens of women's, health care, religious, civil rights, and labor organizations are protesting proposed new Department of Health and Human Services’ draft regulations that could significantly limit women’s access to basic reproductive health services, including some of the most common forms of birth control.

In the face of the latest disturbing economic news, congressional Democrats are crafting a second stimulus package, according to AFSCME's GreenLine Blog. Discussions on how to proceed with a new stimulus package began this week with meetings between Democratic leaders and economists.

Today's news reports Jesse Jackson using the "n" word. Jackson in Spain issued another apology. The politics of distraction unfortunately continue. Last week, John McCain had a bad week, only no one knew it. From fumbling the names of football teams (in Pittsburgh he claimed he repeated the names of the front line of the Steelers when a POW instead of the usual team) to his campaign co-chair accusing the working poor of “whining” and being in a "mental recession," McCain should have faced tough questions on veracity, character and judgment.

Ever wonder why health care policy hasn't changed much in close to 40 years? One big reason is the amount of money the big pharmaceutical companies pour into Washington each year, into the pockets of politicians like John McCain, to maintain the status quo or to win new benefits for them.

Double talk or simply uninformed? This week when a reporter asked Republican nominee John McCain whether it was fair for insurance companies to cover Viagra but not prescription contraceptives, John McCain awkwardly paused and then said, “I don’t know enough about it to give you an informed answer.”

Democratic candidate Barack Obama's June 19 announcement that he would not accept public financing in the presidential race prompted a media furor.

In the wake of the widespread U.S. sub-prime mortgage crisis, speculative funds began to flow into the oil and grains markets, pushing up their prices. The trend is so powerful that it is very difficult to keep these moves under control. Observing this situation, some economic analysts are saying, “Capitalism is reaching its limits.”

The idea that John McCain will pick up women voters who backed Clinton is "mythology" and a "pipe dream," said Ellen Malcolm, president of Emily's List, a women voter's organization that had strongly endorsed Hillary Clinton in the primaries.

As the reader is probably aware, California’s Supreme Court overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage on May 15 of this year, joining Massachusetts as the only other state in the union to offer full marriage rights to same-sex couples. The decision is set to take effect on June 16.

The New Deal government represented new forces and politics. It operated through the Democratic Party. It made the Democrats as a party the majority party of the country, something they had not been since before the Civil War.

David Brooks (the NYT's ultra-conservative mouth piece) has written an open letter to the presidential candidates (Dear Senators Obama, Clinton and McCain) which appeared 5-30-2008 ["The Reality Situation"].

Prominent New Dealer, Rexford Guy Tugwell, author of The Battle for Democracy, was a "brain truster" or policy advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt and served under Department of Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace. Tugwell was typical of the “new people” who had come to Washington in 1933 with Roosevelt’s election.

As civil rights activists in the US prepare to defend the recent landmark California State Supreme Court ruling overturning a state ban on gay marriage against a Republican Party-led backlash, Cuba is launching a campaign to combat homophobia in that island country.