Front page from February 18, 2009

The Sri Lankan military is intensifying its war on the country's Tamil minority--but the international media have focused on the violence of the resistance.

Labor activists are calling on workers to show solidarity with Palestinians by supporting boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel.

Barack Obama seems to be embracing an energy policy that has left Appalachia with fewer mountaintops every year.

The reason Jamiu Omikunle was unlawfully detained and threatened with deportation wasn't so much the validity of his visa as the color of his skin.

The owner of Peanut Corp. of America knowingly sold contaminated peanuts, leading to a deadly salmonella outbreak. But he probably won't spend a day in jail.

Actor and right-wing ideologue Ben Stein withdrew from an invitation to speak at the University of Vermont in the face of swelling opposition.

New Labour urged and encouraged every one of the practices that caused the financial crisis--and now they want a review to see how it happened.

A Thai dissident who was forced to flee to Britain to avoid prosecution and prison offers a manifesto for Thailand's left.

The list of baseball's frauds and history defamers extends far beyond Alex Rodriguez and his use of steroids.

In the last 150 years of U.S. history, you can't point to a generation whose most active, radical layers have not been drawn to the ideas of Karl Marx.

Abraham Lincoln deserves to be remembered--not for the trivia we'll hear about today, but as a participant in one of history's great struggles for freedom.

His theories revolutionized biology in the 19th century, but Charles Darwin also had a profound impact outside science that lasts to this day.

While other musicians have addressed New Orleans' struggles after Katrina, none have done it better than Dr. John and The Lower 911 in City That Care Forgot.

A prisoner on California's death row offers solidarity for Oscar Grant, who was killed by police at an Oakland BART station.

Public education is under assault in California, where school budgets and teacher jobs are on the chopping block.

In Britain, where solidarity for Gaza brought upwards of 150,000 people on to the streets in early January, the movement is continuing with Viva Palestina.

The economic stimulus bill contains over $1 billion in funding for various prison initiatives that will only punish the poor.