The Bushes, dirty tricks and regime change in nuclear-free Palau
On June 30, 1985, 30 years ago today, Haruo Remeliik, the president of anti-nuclear Palau, had his brains blown out.
Robert Redford demands global action on climate change
Robert Redford said moderate climate is going extinct.
Today in history: The United Nations Charter is signed in 1945
UN has served as a widely respected moral voice for refugees, the environment, women's rights, labor, agricultural development, disaster relief, and cultural preservation.
Today in history: Mozambique achieves independence in 1975
The decade 1964-74 marks the wars of independence for Portuguese colonies of Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique, and islands of Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe.
Today in Pride Month history: Homosexuals in Holocaust first publicly recognized
In 1976, speakers at a public program in Hartford, Conn., told the history and paid homage to the homosexuals exterminated in the Nazi concentration and labor camps.
Ingeborg Rapoport: A doctor's degree at 102
Few of the media reports told the full story, not only about the anti-Semitism of the Nazis at its beginning but about the anti-Communism which later followed.
Hundreds of thousands march against austerity in Britain
A quarter of a million angry voices challenged the government's "dangerous and unjust" spending cuts at the weekend.
Turkey's election earthquake shakes things up
Behind the storm that staggered Turkey's ruling party: a grassroots revolt against rising poverty, growing inequality and the AKP's war on trade unions.
Today in history: 200 years since the Battle of Waterloo
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the defeat of Napoleon by the British Duke of Wellington and Prussian field marshal Gebhard Blücher.
Ecuador proposes moderate tax increase on rich, right wing runs amok
In most Latin American countries, including those with relatively progressive governments, huge wealth disparities are an obstacle to the pursuit of social justice and greater democracy.
