French journalist and filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin examines the dark and troubling influence of American chemical and biotech giant Monsanto. Her incendiary film documents a corporate legacy of greed, death, poverty and illness --from the creation (and

Offending married couples can be punished by a minimum of 100 lashings and a maximum of stoning to death. It also imposes severe prison terms for homosexuality, which will be punishable by public lashings and more than eight years in prison.

"Do you know that terrible feeling you get when someone you care about is viciously attacked for something they haven't done? I got that feeling when I heard the outrageous charges against amazing and courageous people like Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky..."

While the U. S. Turns a Blind Eye, Its 'Partner' States Are Quietly Decriminalizing Illicit Drugs Late last week, the Mexican government, trying explicitly not to call too much attention to what it was doing, decriminalized the possession of very smal

Rarely in human history has such a small group of people caused so much suffering for so many as is the case with the Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, in central Africa--

A gross violation of constitutional and international law occurred this week heralding a dark day for Canadian governance and society. The credibly accused war criminal George W Bush was allowed entry into Canada in violation of Canada's ratified...

the US is indeed in a privileged position: not only it unleashes a global financial crisis, it then sucks up money from all over the world, based on the fact that the US in fact remains the "manager" of choice of global capitalism.

OTTAWA -- The federal government is secretly planning an overhaul of the rules governing Canada's reserves that is far more sweeping than what Ottawa is telling Canada's chiefs and native leaders. Documents show the government wants to address...

"Most people in our group are teachers, doctors, lawyers," she said. "But tonight we're just coming out and having a bit of fun in showing everyone the gay and lesbian community is part of the Australian community.""It's spectacular, it's funny, it's top

Two young Tibetan women were detained on Thursday (March 5) in Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi), a Tibetan area of Sichuan province (Kham) following a protest, in an atmosphere of increasing tension in the area.