Ward Connerly has tried to end affirmative action programs in California. On February 16, Connerly received a payback for that and his more recent work: $250,000 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

In the president’s State of the Union address this year, he pledged again to fight the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. But when his 2006 budget proposal was released two weeks later, a different picture emerged.

Anti-Semitism means spreading enmity towards the Jews.

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is pushing full speed ahead with land reform, an issue that has been one of the most divisive and perennially debated topics in Latin America.

raq is an increasingly dangerous place for trade unionists, said the ICFTU today as it condemned the latest murder of the Iraqi labour leader Ali Hassan Abd.

Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon's five-times prime minister and billionaire tycoon was assassinated in a huge bomb blast in Beirut last Monday, February 14. A number of others were killed or wounded in the blast that left a trail of carnage and devastation.

In 1994, after the assassination of the country's leader Juvenal Habyarimana, the long-simmering hostility of the Hutus for their fellow Rwandans, the Tutsi, boiled over into a bloody genocide.

Good jobs, affordable health care coverage and secure retirements are the top priorities among Latino workers, Latino leaders said.

Beijing aims to expand trade ties with Latin America in order to sate its growing energy demands.

President Bush in his fiscal 2006 budget requested money to develop the so-called Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP), including inert-bomb tests.

AIDS is a disease we can manage, control and prevent. But we have not mostly because of people who hate.

Korean women, who have been hoping to see Korea become a land of peace, without war and weapons, and who have long worked for the peaceful reunification of Korea, are very concerned about the declaration that North Korea has nuclear weapons.

his time George Bush is not visiting Berlin. His last visit here in 2002 resulted in an unfriendly demonstration of close to 100,000 people from all over Germany.

Last week, Time magazine reported that 36% of American High School students believe that newspapers should have government approval before publishing stories.

US diplomats and George W Bush's apologists on this side of the Atlantic try to portray the US president's visit to Europe as a bridge-building exercise.

SOAT calls on the United Nations Security Council to speedily endorse the recommendations embodied in the International Commission of Inquiry report on Darfur and to immediately act on its findings.

Iraq's elections, at once a defeat and a victory, the vehicle of both honour and shame, for Iraq, the US, the Arabs, exhibited all the paradoxes of globalised liberalism.

The designation of John Negroponte as the first director of national intelligence recalls the Central American wars of the 1980s.

Greenspan backs Bush’s plan for Social Security privatization, but will this bring about "class equity?" His record on what "class equity" is is questionable.

James McMurtry and his backup band, the Heartless Bastards, with another guitarist and drummer, started their set at a new music venue in Brooklyn, SouthPaw.