In the first study ever done on the local health effects of the domes of carbon dioxide that develop above cities, Stanford researcher Mark Jacobson found that the domes increase the local death rate. The...

Venezuela and Belarus strengthened energy and trade co-operation on Wednesday, with President Hugo Chavez saying that the two allies are seeking to increase their independence from the US and other imperialist states. At a meeting...

Nato war planes have participated in exercises over the former Soviet Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The one-day mission involved French and Polish fighter planes and was the fifth major Nato air maneouvre...

Venezuela has an election for its National Assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest.  I am referring to the international campaign.  This is carried out largely through the international media; although some...

In a Democracy Now! exclusive, investigative journalist and activist Allan Nairn reveals US-backed Indonesian armed forces carried out a series of assassinations of civilian activists in late 2009. The news comes as the White House...

In a potentially important development, exiled members of the former People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan are returning to the country to re-found the organization. They plan to hold a Congress in Kabul later this year...

Thousands of Turkish people protested Israeli raids into Al-Aqsa mosque as PM Erdogan called new settlement plans on the occupied lands unacceptable. Organized by several NGOs, thousands came together in Istanbul's Beyazit Square after the...

Jorge Enrique Medina Delgado, a member of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), was assassinated in the city of San Antonio del Tachira, in the opposition controlled state of Tachira yesterday....

On Wednesday March 17, 2010 the Haifa District Court saw a fourth day of testimony in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah,...

We the people have given away our sovereign money-creating power to private, for-profit lending institutions, which have used it to siphon wealth from the productive economy. Some states are moving to take that power back....