System of a Down totally demolishes the facade of credibility built by right-wing dominance, bullying of the media and repetition of “talking points” fabricated by Bush’s handlers.

Official Response to Announcement of $1 million Bounty and the Listing of ASSATA SHAKUR on Domestic Terrorist Watch List.

N.Y. May Day march/demonstration,Nuclear Disarmament 2005

Last week, in a sad and outrageous sign of this country's appalling priorities, President Bush signed into law the $82 billion supplemental war appropriations bill, providing ongoing funding for the U.S. military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bush & Co. decided to award KBR(Kellogg, Brown and Root) over $72 million in bonuses despite the fact that senior Halliburton/KBR officials perjured themselves before the House Committee on Government Reform back in July of 2004.

In 1981, in Chile, a group of economic advisors promoted a social security privatization program much like the one being pushed by the Bush administration...After 23 years, the program has resulted in...millions of Chilean people with little or nothing to show for their decades of hard work and “contributions”.

"The ANC election campaign manifesto of 2004, supported by its allies, the SACP, COSATU and SANCO, agreed on a ‘People’s Contract to Create Work and Fight Poverty’...Our immediate task is to translate these Manifesto commitments into reality..."

Contextualizing the history of US involvement with Iraq and its determined efforts to establish military control in the region, Mahajan describes a roughly 25-year history of US support for the dictatorship, then its turn against the Hussein regime, the subsequent period of the sanctions and ultimately Bush's war.

"...it is the September 2001 New York and Washington attacks and deaths – and the subsequent reaction of the American government – that suddenly and radically challenges, twists, and changes the meaning of words like freedom, justice, fairness, equality, democracy, truth, torture, liberation, and God...Today, we are witness to a fight over who owns our words and what they mean."

Labour won 55 per cent of the seats with just 36 per cent of the vote at the polls. But with only 61 per cent of eligible Britons voting, it means the Tony Blair has won government with the support of only 22 per cent of the population

Buried deep within the No Child Left Behind Act is a provision that requires public high schools to hand over the private contact information of students in public high schools to military recruiters. If a school does not comply, it risks losing vital federal education funds.

On May 16, 2005, rather than lose its press pass, Newsweek fell on its sword and retracted its story about U.S. investigators confirming the desecration of the Koran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo.

Last week, President Bush spoke to thousands of adoring fans in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

Left-leaning governments seek a change from free market politics. "... leftist parties are also playing an important role in state affairs as the dominant party or as the major opposition party."

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) the GOP chair of a senate sub-committee "investigating" the UN oil-for-food program wasn’t up to the task of interrogating British Member of Parliament George Galloway Tuesday.

Communists made a social revolution and made societies like Russia, Cuba, China, Vietnam, qualitatively better than they were before...Fascists provided protection for the existing ruling classes and built war machines to conquer and loot other peoples.

The Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) on May 4 submitted more than five million signatures calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons to NPT Review Conference Chair Sergio Duarte at the General Assembly Hall of the U.N. in New York

We need a New Deal. Start by ending corruption and abuse of power by Republican congressional leaders. Repeal the rich tax cuts. End the $200 billion war on Iraq and bring our troops home.

"It is clear that the struggle against capitalist globalization and the struggle to eradicate slavery are one in the same.To combat slavery, stronger laws to protect laborers must be implemented..." .

Sports should be a patriotism-free zone.
Dave Zirin’s new book What’s My Name Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States will be in stores in June 2005.