Singing “Ain’t going to let nobody turn me round,” 10,000 marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge here March 6 to protest Bush-Cheney voter suppression tactics and to demand renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act set to expire in 2007.

Bush's budget calls for an actual cut in education—the first in a decade and turns its back on children, the elderly, and those who need assistance the most.

Skeptical about the changes in Social Security President Bush is proposing? You should be.

Cuba has demanded a thorough reform of the United Nations Comission on Human Rights (UNCHR), which it compared to a "sinking ship".

The Japan Peace Committee (JPC) on March 4 demanded that the government oppose the planned return to Okinawa of U.S. Marines from Iraq where they committed massacre.

At 85, Wm. Theodore de Bary is one the deans of Asian Studies in the United States.

Around 10 PM on March 10, nearly three weeks after beginning a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment, Yvon Neptune, Haiti’s prime minister under former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was hospitalized after suffering dehydration.

The big bang, widely accepted in a variety of forms by most physical scientists today, was first put forward in rudimentary form by a Belgian priest-astronomer, Georges LeMaître, in 1927.

Portuguese writer José Saramago is among more than 200 outstanding world thinkers who have signed a document supporting Cuba at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.

Robots is an animated children’s movie that may be the most revolutionary film to appear on the big screen in years – and I’m not just talking about the technology used to make it.

Economic insecurity is driving older Americans back into the labor market. At the same time, employment opportunities for other workers are souring, the regular pattern of a market economy.

Although there isn’t any great personality cult around Bush (no surprise given his personality) there is a multi-faceted censorship that invents its own news stories, never admits its distortions and lies even when the are documented beyond dispute, and punishes any critic for the most minor error.

SOAT is gravely concerned by the continued arrests and detention without charge of civilians in Darfur for their perceived support of the rebel opposition group, Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), by government security apparatus.