Full Coverage: United States

28.02.2006 A lawyer who fought to end racial segregation in U.S. housing in the 1970s calls the problem "the hardest issue in America relating to race relations," but offers a proposal for eliminating the "black ghetto."

28.02.2006 Any nuclear aid President Bush offers to India this week--even of the "civilian" kind--will free up Indian resources to make more bombs, says Council for a Livable World, drumming up support for a key bill in Congress to oppose U.S. nuclear aid to India.

28.02.2006 from Gristmill blog:
... it reduces oil use, energy dependence and global warming. "If we have any politicians left with ... the sense God gave a turkey, they would jump on this. Americans crave it. They want to be asked to sacrifice. They want to be involved. They just need an opportunity," says David Roberts.

28.02.2006 An immediate end to the US occupation and the deployment of a UN-led peacekeeping force was demanded yesterday by an international women's human rights organisation.

28.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 27 (OneWorld) - The average American family has taken a financial tumble and millions in the country go hungry despite President George W. Bush's sunny assessment of the U.S. economy, say federal data and economists.

27.02.2006 Two great recent stories out of Canada and New York proving what a misnomer the word "disability" can be.

27.02.2006 Ultimately, it is about employers and physicians working together to improve the quality and safety of care," said Dr. Jeffrey Rideout, MD. "Creating a system that provides patient information and data as well as the results of medications and treatments will help physicians make the best medical

27.02.2006 Anonymous surfing programs let users route their data through private networks of proxy machines. These machines have addresses that can't be linked to any supposedly subversive Web sites, so government agencies won't block them.

27.02.2006 The US President should press his Pakistani counterpart, General Pervez Musharraf, to step down as army chief, hold elections, and restore civilian rule, a leading rights group said ahead of Bush's scheduled to visit Pakistan this week.

26.02.2006 Is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency turning a blind eye to top companies' poor emissions standards? Some of the companies being rewarded as "top environmental performers" are anything but, say a coalition of 29 environmental organizations.

26.02.2006 Tired of broken promises, survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster are marching 800 km to Delhi to call attention to the continuing toxic contamination of Bhopal, the absence of adequate healthcare, and other problems.

24.02.2006 They are running factories and non-profits, leading campaigns and demonstrations, and standing up to government oppression around the world. They are mothers, widows, journalists, Nobel Prize winners, peacemakers...they are just like you and me.

24.02.2006 Ever stricter border patrols only seem to be causing more death and danger for Latin Americans looking for a better life up north, reports Diego Cevallos.

24.02.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 24 (OneWorld) - Three Nobel laureates are throwing their weight behind an international coalition in demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and calling on the public to protest the occupation by taking part in nonviolent lawbreaking at U.S. military bases.

23.02.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 (OneWorld) - The United States is using the issue of United Nations reform to consolidate domination of the world body by wealthy and powerful countries at the expense of the majority, say two-thirds of the UN's members.

23.02.2006 European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and his US counterpart Rob Portman were urged yesterday to make concessions to ensure that the Doha Round of trade negotiations benefits developing countries.

23.02.2006 A new fund will support women's health organizations around that world that have been cut off from U.S. aid because their stance on abortion is not in line with the Bush Administration's. The U.K. has already pledged $5 million.

23.02.2006 American companies are under attack from Congress for helping the Chinese government suppress free speech but it's the U.S. government that really has the power to affect change, argues former Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

22.02.2006 My friend and I, both grandmothers, have the dubious distinction of being the only ones in the United States who were arrested for taking part in the Pure Foods National Super Market Campaign to Label Foods Containing GMOs...

22.02.2006 The fact that the US President consulted novelist Michael Crichton on global warming would be funny — if the consequences of George Bush's policies weren't so dire, says Frank O'Donnell.