In each of the three decisive moments of recent history, Greece has been pulled backwards from a chance for social transformation, political independence and freedom from external tutelage by one and another of the Papandreou...

Seven years since the US invasion of Iraq 20 March 2010 On this, the seventh anniversary of the US war against Iraq, we are reposting a statement by David North, chairman of the international editorial...

Editor's Note: The Interamerican Court is an autonomous institution of the Organization of American States (OAS) that is in charge of applying and interpreting the American Convention on Human Rights. - LMB Official court audio...

Editor's Note: As time passes in the wake of Haiti's historic earthquake, news of the devastation fades from the pages and television screens of the corporate media and from the minds of their viewers. Exceptions...

Axis of Logic - The curtain is going down on the lone-superpower world we know and it is now a most urgent question if and when and how forces for true democracy, human rights, peace and...

A top priority on the neoconservative agenda for America is the privatization of social services, and their education initiatives have succeeded in gutting many public schools across the nation.  As a result, the US has...

The Obama Administration has heightened tensions with China through a series of measures which can only be characterized as major provocations designed to undermine relations between the two countries.  These provocations include political support for...

The student activism yesterday in the "Day of Action" serves as one powerful example of what Civic Revolution is about. Yesterday, March 4, students, teachers, faculty, campus workers and community members are made their voices...

The list of universal truths should be expanded to include the fact of Afghanistan’s invincibility. Afghanistan has maintained its reputation as the ‘graveyard of the empires’. The question is, before the US invasion of Afghanistan,...

Editorial comment by Arturo Rosales: The basic information outlined below is what readers abroad will rarely see in the corporate media. From the BBC to CNN, FOX and the floundering big city newspapers. If such...

Earlier this week, journalists highlighted U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman's statement that the Obama Administration had "offered to facilitate Iran's procurement through the world markets of the medical isotopes its citizens need," but...

A resurgent left, and the rapid growth of the Greens, look certain to condemn President Nicolas Sarkozy to two years' hard labour when French regional elections are completed this weekend. Opinion polls suggest that an...

BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)- In a ruling bearing potentially far-reaching implications, an appellate court in Argentina's Santa Fe province this week upheld a decision blocking farmers from spraying agrochemicals near populated areas. The ruling blocks...

An Icelandic volcano, dormant for 200 years, has erupted, ripping a 1km-long fissure in a field of ice. The volcano near Eyjafjallajoekull glacier began to erupt just after midnight, sending lava a hundred metres high....

As the world marks World Water Day, the Gana and Gwi Bushmen of Botswana are marking eight years without access to a regular supply of water in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.In 2002, the Botswana...

HALIFAX—They call him “the Hurricane.” Guatemalan coffee farmer Leocadio Juracan (his family name is close to the Spanish word for hurricane) has had a special relationship with many Nova Scotians—though most don’t even know it....

Peter Kent recently returned from a three day trip (February 17-20) to Honduras, proudly declaring the mission a success. As Canada's Minister of State for the Americas, Kent is the Tory government's point person for...

Sixty-nine Burmese activists who were taken into custody on Friday for protesting in front of the Burmese embassy in New Delhi have been released, but 26 have been ordered to appear in court next week...

KHAN YUNIS, Gaza - UN chief Ban Ki-moon slammed Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip during a tour of the war-battered coastal territory on Sunday, saying it was causing "unacceptable sufferings." "I have repeatedly made...

The top pro-Israel lobby opens its annual policy conference here Sunday keeping up the pressure to defuse a US-Israeli row over the Middle East peace process and to divert attention to Iran. Evan Bayh, a...