The UN Goldstone report is a well-researched, fair-minded report. Israel and Hamas must conduct credible, independent investigations on war crimes and possible crimes against humanity or face the International Criminal Court. We demand accountability!

The plan constitutes a daring exercise in state-building which significantly alters the rules of the game that have heretofore governed Israeli-Palestinian relations. The potential inherent in this strategic shift cannot be exaggerated

"...it was acknowledging what veterans have long claimed: in addition to 13 ailments already traced to exposure to the chemical, it was also responsible for three more dread diseases -- Parkinson's, ischemic hedart disease, and hairy-cell leukemia."

This is where the rubber meets the road. After months of delay, the full Senate is about to debate and vote on landmark health care legislation. But first, Senator Harry Reid and Democratic leaders have a big decision to make:

Julia is leading an American youth movement that will transform both our country and our world. As the co-founder and National Managing Director of the Student Peace Alliance, Julia supports young people organizing direct service and advocacy efforts on

Starting September 1st, Idaho could host the greatest wolf massacre since the 1930s -- with a ratio of 70 guns for each of Idaho's wolves. On August 24th, state officials will begin selling some 70,000 permits to shoot and kill over 20% of the 1,000 wolve

Bromides are a common endocrine disruptor. Because bromide is also a halide, it competes for the same receptors that are used in the thyroid gland (among other places) to capture iodine.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who is suffering from brain cancer and has missed most of the sessions of the Senate this year, has sent a letter (PDF) to Massachusetts leaders asking for a change in state law to allow his seat in Congress to be more

Let's make August the Month of Single-Payer Action and demand that our Congresspeople vote YES on Rep. Weiner's amendment and S 703 in September. How-to's at site, and below....go on, TRY it, you'll LIKE it--and you'll be VERY sorry later if you don't.

In the week that Britain's National Health Service was held aloft by Republicans as an "evil and Orwellian" example of everything that is wrong with free healthcare, these extraordinary scenes in Inglewood, CA yesterday provided a sobering reminder of why