From veterans to impoverished children, college students and vulnerable senior citizens, the $2.57 trillion Bush administration budget for 2006 misses no opportunity to do harm.

Sout African Communist Party calls for expansion of essential services and land.

Melchior Palyi, Chicago School economist, whose writings connecting the "welfare state" to "totalitarianism" were used as part of the campaign against comprehensive national health insurance.

It could well be that Cuba's Medicine, the Medical Sciences, the health of its people and sister and friendly nations that have the highest profile and future

The number of countries that deploy troops in Iraq will decrease from 37 to 20. The U.S. Bush administration is trying to dissuade them but has been unable to change the trend.

While an Islamic Shiite coalition won a slim majority in the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq, the results indicate that no single group can control the country’s political process.

When the Bush administration released its budget for 2006, the news media, as usual, had a tough time in making sense of the government’s proposals for defense spending.

With Bush propagandizing about the fiscal "crisis" of Social Security and his critics on the left and right pointing to a bloated $600 billion budget deficit, it is time to look at where all the money went.

The Social Security Act was passed in 1935 in the midst of a vast increase in labor organizing and militancy leading to the formation of the CIO, the great sit down strikes, the organization of millions of new workers.

President Bush has re-nominated seven candidates for the federal appeals courts. Each was blocked by Senate Democrats during his first term.

Despite US rejection, the Kyoto treaty to fight global warming goes into effect today amidst continuous reports bearing ominous news about the future of the environment.

Systems of socialized medicine are as good as the level of economic development within a society and the political forces which guide the development of the system make them.

Munitions used by US troops on a massive scale in the Iraq war may be injuring US soldiers. According to Veterans for Peace depleted uranium (DU), a substance used in bullets and artillery shells, may be harmful to anyone exposed to it.

Presiden Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has led an international movement of building close ties with countries that have longthreatened US hegemony.

More and more detail is flooding out about the torture of victims by US, Australian and British authorities caught up in the dirty war against Iraq.

While election irregularities in Ohio marred the US election last November and the voter registration system itself discourgaes participation, Cuba's political system guarantees voting rights to every citizen.

In a press conference last week, President Bush claimed that he would listen to "any good idea" for protecting Social Security.

Despite vast national wealth, people in america go bankrupt because they can't afford spiraling health care costs.

Roger Cohen of The New York Times recently reviewed The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror by Natan Sharansky.

The Jan. 30 election in Iraq was an important event in the political life of Iraqis and in the struggle to end the occupation of the country.