Right now, children are falling prey to sex trafficking in American-owned hotels all over the world, and even right here at home.

Against Apartheid & AIDS, as with human-induced climate change, the denialists' role was to entrench the status quo forces of state & capital. They were, simply, hucksters for vested interests. In both cases we defeated them with vigorous social activism!

A Hillsborough judged sentenced 19-year-old David Holdsworth on Friday, with 10 years of probation after his release from prison. He pleaded guilty earlier this month to DUI manslaughter.

Santa Claus -- and his red-suited helpers in shopping malls -- are taught to keep their hands visible at all times. They're advised to sneeze into their elbows and change their gloves frequently to decrease the spread of H1N1 virus germs.

Germany is donating EUR60 million ($87 million) to a new endowment for Auschwitz-Birkenau to preserve barracks, gas chambers and other evidence of Nazi crimes at the former death camp. Railway tracks leading to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death

A conversation with Nora Armani, an international actor, playwright and festival producer, about prospects for healing old wounds between Armenia and Turkey through the soft diplomacy of cultural exchange.

In the nation's poorest communities -- Indian reservations of the American West -- bitter winters force many families to spend up to 70% of their total income to heat their homes. Trees, Water & People is working to improve conditions for Native Americans.

Shinagawa in the central Tokyo, with a lot of high-rise condos and business complexes, had prospered as a vast vegetable farm. Now a owner of a vegetable store is trying to revive the past.

"The American Family Association...called for a boycott of the Gap after the retailer dared to wish people merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Solstice, rather than just Christmas--";"Wal-Mart's bring-the-Christ-back-to-Christmas strategy"

"We will return to our ceremonies, and we will gain back our strength and our values," said Justin Kii Huenemann (Navajo), President and CEO of the Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI). "We are just at the beginning of this new ...