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....

Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009 BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- China's Information Office of the State Council published a report titled "The Human Rights Record of the United...

WASHINGTON - The United States has a "special responsibility" to help Iraq address a dire humanitarian crisis that sees huge numbers of displaced Iraqis struggle to survive, an aid group said Wednesday. In a report...

The current $350 million ad campaign for the 2010 Census, including the much-maligned $2.5 million Super Bowl spots, urges individuals to “Tell your story.” The Census Bureau is particularly eager for minorities and illegal immigrants...

Ukraine's new governing coalition has announced that it will pass a law against joining military alliances such as Nato. In a statement of purpose published in the parliament's official gazette on Tuesday, the Stability and...

In a remarkable combination of civil society pressure and leadership from a small number of progressive States, a strong ban on the use, manufacture, and stocking of cluster bombs will come into force on August...

SILWAN, EAST JERUSALEM - Three thousand heavily armed Israeli security service forces locked down large parts of the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday, as battalions of police fired rounds of tear gas and rubber-coated...

SME Members Defend Themselves and Continue to Block Their Former Workplaces At noon on March 16, the Mexican Electrical Workers Union went on an indefinite strike, and unions all over the country went on strike...

What’s Killing the Great Forests of the American West? A Frightening Phenomenon Happening Across the Globe For many years, Diana Six, an entomologist at the University of Montana, planned her field season for the same...