By Hans Bennett | 04.01.2007 On May 17, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the case of internationally renowned black death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. The court will consider four different issues that it has already certified...

Thursday, April 05 2007 @ 06:13 AM PDT Contributed by: Andrew Views: 536 Peak Oil Theory has been around since the 1970s. Some think we have already reached 'peak oil', others think it will happen with the next twenty-five years. The theory argues that...

April 5, 2007 ORLANDO, Fla. -- An activist was out of jail on bond, Thursday, following his arrest for feeding the homeless at Lake Eola in Orlando. Eric Montanez was arrested Wednesday afternoon for violating the city ordinance that bans large group...

Some concerned it will silence those who see suspicious activity MINNEAPOLIS Six Muslim men removed from a plane last fall after being accused of suspicious behavior are suing the airline and threatening to sue the passengers who complained - a move that...

The following is James Howard Kunstler' recent speech to the Commonwealth Club of California. An audio stream of the speech is available. Two years ago in my book The Long Emergency I wrote that our nation was sleepwalking into an era of unprecedented...

Analysis by Lucy Komisar* NEW YORK, Apr 4 (IPS) - Now that the U.S. Congress is investigating the truth of President George W. Bush's statements about the Iraq war, they might look into one of his most startling assertions: that there was a link between...

A report released Thursday by Amnesty International (AI) describes “deteriorating” conditions at the infamous Guantánamo Bay, Cuba prison camp, citing an increase in the use of physical isolation to break prisoners, and an accompanying rise in mental...

DOHA — Leading gas powers discussed on Monday the idea of transforming their benign grouping into an OPEC-style cartel, but sought to reassure consumer nations that it was business as usual for now. Host nation Qatar, home to the world's third largest...

By Barbara Lewis and Simon Webb DOHA (Reuters) - Gas producing nations will discuss the idea of an OPEC-style cartel that has alarmed consumer nations when they meet on Monday, but it is unlikely to become reality soon, energy ministers said. Even more...

A young National Guardsman said several Philadelphia police officers broke into his Kensington home Tuesday night and assaulted him after he videotaped a wild melee outside his window. Angel Rodriguez, 19, a guardsman who is slated to ship out to Afghanistan...