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When the wheels are coming off, it doesn't do much good to change the driver. Whatever the name of the commanding general in Afghanistan, the US war effort will …

Given the way she surprised the world, it seems fitting that Susan Boyle was born on April Fools' Day (1961). Many of us watched the April 2009 YouTube clip …

Tens of thousands of progressive activists are converging on Detroit this week for the U.S. Social Forum to envision a better future. In the fight for social justice and …

Washington - President Barack Obama Wednesday fired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal as commander of the war in Afghanistan. Obama turned to Army Gen. David Petraeus to command the war. …

As Bishkek seeks public support, talk is of a failed state. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyzstan's shaky provisional government is banking that a constitutional referendum this Sunday will provide it …

Armageddon machines and the merchants of death. English peace activist Jim McClusky examines just a few of the “preposterous propositions” that underpin British - and US - foreign and …

Washington - Workers pulled the “top hat” device collecting crude oil from BP's gushing Deepwater Horizon well Wednesday morning in a major setback to efforts to contain the leak.

I have watched the debate on the closing of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with much interest. President Obama's idea of closing Guantanamo and sending detainees to …

Albert Woodfox has spent nearly all of the last 38 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. His case has brought protests from Amnesty International …