When the Bush administration ordered the U.S. military into Iraq, the would-be conquerors in Washington were enveloped in an extravagant fantasy-the vision of U.S. forces joyously being greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people....

Fundamentalist evangelist Pat Robertson’s call for the murder of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is not just the impulsive mouthing off of a right-wing crack-pot. It is a serious matter, not just for what was said, but for who said it....

Horse trading is as common in Washington today as it once was in Cheyenne. Deals are made between Democrats and Repub licans to add this provision to that bill, or let a nomination to a powerful post go through, in exchange for some quid pro quo. ...

Nothing is more dangerous for the working class of the United States than the rise of neo-fascist and KKK-type groupings. ...

The AFL-CIO passed a resolution on July 26 that calls for a rapid end to the Iraq war. The resolution, put forward by the General Executive Council, is being called a “major change of course” for the labor federation by U.S. Labor Against the War....

After three months of inner struggle and delay, the Pentagon has issued a belligerent report on China. The report, which raises the prospect of the so-called “China threat,” is itself a threat—to China....

On July 15, Judge John Roberts gave the Bush administration a judicial victory, joining a unanimous three-judge panel to rule that the prisoners of war being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have no rights under the Geneva Conventions. On July 19, the former lawyer, who once represented Fox Television, became Bush’s choice for the Supreme Court....

The image and the message should be perfectly clear. The image is of New York Times reporter Judith Miller being put in jail. The message? Just what is the message when the government starts throwing journalists into prison?...

Will the July 7 bombings in London be followed by greater opposition to imperialist war and occupation--which has already cost so many lives and so much suffering in so many countries? Or will the political forces of corporate expansion and empire building in the United States and Britain be able to utilize them to further their aggressive agenda of war and plunder? That is the question now before the progressive movement. ...

In the space of a few days at the end of June, the legislatures in both Spain and Canada legalized same-sex marriage. In Spain particularly—historically a Catholic country and one where the church campaigned vigorously against the bill—the vote was greeted with elation by the progressive community...

Sandra Day O’Connor is leaving the Supreme Court, which means the abominable Bush will be able to pick another “justice for life.” This has many progressive organizations horribly worried....

With the Bush administration threatening war on Iran, that country’s presidential election got world attention, more than any election since the 1979 revolution that overthrew the shah and ousted the U.S. neocolonial regime....

Now—exactly 41 years later to the day that Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner were brutally beaten and executed—KKK member Edgar Ray Killen, 80 years old, was found guilty of manslaughter for the murders. He is the only KKK member ever convicted for these deaths, since the Mississippi courts did not bother to arrest anyone at the time....

Michael Jackson faced two trials: one in the court room and the other in the news room....

The Indigenous, the poor, the working people of Bolivia are speaking out loudly for themselves, for Latin America and for much of the world when they confront the richest 1 percent of the population, their police and army, and their international backer: U.S. imperialism....

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld journeyed to Singapore to deliver a blunt attack on China for having the audacity, as a sovereign nation representing one-fifth of the world’s population, to try to defend itself against U.S. and Japanese imperialism—two of its former colonial oppressors....

Before history is completely rewritten, it's time to review what happened in the coup that toppled Richard Nixon....

Well before the U.S. torture and killing of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan became worldwide news, George W. Bush was the admitted master of prison abuse in Texas....

The Senate’s Permanent Subcom mit tee on Investigations—a collection of warmongers from both parties—is not looking into crime and graft involving the U.S. government and its favorite monopolies. Instead it has been poking around in the so-called Oil-for-Food Program, begun in 1996....

Each week the truth about Iraq comes through more clearly for those who choose to look. The U.S. occupation is brutal, criminal, killing civilians as much as combatants. The Iraqi resistance is growing and gathering more support from a population that may be war-weary but is determined to free itself from foreign rule. The equally vicious imperialist occupation of Afghanistan, which Washington tried to justify with the pretext of the post-9/11 “war on terror,” is also arousing mass opposition....

Across the world, progressive people stand in solidarity with Assata Shakur. This revolutionary, a
former member of the Black Liberation Army, was shot twice by New Jersey police officers in 1973, and then sent to prison for the death of one of the officers....

Social Security and Medicaid are under attack. These are two government programs vital for the working class. They have one important difference. But the defense of both programs should be at the top of the list for the entire working class....

Two important verdicts announced within one day of each other in mid-April expose the class injustice of the Pentagon’s legal machinery regarding the horrific war and occupation of Iraq. ...

‘Vietnam belongs to the workers.’ That was the Workers World front-page headline following the liberation of Saigon—that electric moment on the morning of April 30, 1975, when a tank carrying the liberation soldiers crashed through the front gates of the Saigon presidential palace, and the remaining occupants of the U.S. Embassy scampered onto military helicopters to flee the Vietnamese people....

Historical forces work in mysterious ways their wonders to perform. In the very same week and in the very same city where Cardinal Ratzinger caught the brass ring and ascended to supreme leader of the Catholic Church, horrifying Catholics who had hoped for a kinder, gentler figure, an equally reactionary figure who had risen to head the Italian government after building a media empire and fortune, Prime Minister Sylvio Berlusconi, was forced to resign and prepare to submit to a new election....

All over the world workers and oppressed peoples will scan the horizon of the United States for signs of struggle on May Day. ...

‘Human rights abuses.’ The Carter administration raised this phrase from a vague, demagogic political generality to a battle cry against any government that didn’t knuckle under to the demands of the world’s greatest violator of human rights: U.S. finance capital and its military might. ...

The pro-Pentagon propaganda machine here usually celebrates war anniversaries, especially wars with few U.S. casualties. Yet take a look at Google News for March 24: Yugoslavia turned up only 38 independent hits. Thirty-four of them involved chess champion Bobby Fischer’s asylum in Iceland. The war was almost ignored....

Indonesians on tiny Nias Island are suffering the brunt of another great earthquake, an “aftershock” of the even greater one last Dec. 26 that impelled a tsunami that killed 280,000 people in the Indian Ocean region. This one’s damage was apparently limited to Nias, as there was no major tidal wave....