Full Coverage: United States

05/21/2008 NEW YORK, May 21 (OneWorld) - Former presidential hopeful John Edwards has helped launch a campaign aiming to cut poverty in half in the United States by 2018.

05/21/2008 Tokyo announced Monday it will export 200,000 tons of rice to the Philippines, a week after a Washington-based think tank said selling surplus supplies could bring down the soaring price of rice.

05/20/2008 Last week the U.S. House of Representatives voted against President Bush's Iraq War Policy. This is a "major victory" for the anti-Iraq war movement, write the heads of an arms control advocacy group.

05/20/2008 Wind energy can supply 20 percent of U.S. electricity needs by 2030 at a "modest" cost difference, says a new report from the U.S. Department of Energy.

05/17/2008 WASHINGTON, May 16 (OneWorld) - Antiwar veterans of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan took their case to Capitol Hill Thursday, baring their souls with stories of killings of innocent civilians, torture, and wrongful detentions.

05/16/2008 While the national average of bike ridership may be on the decline, in Portland we have seen increases in ridership that are in the double digits...

05/16/2008 The California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a law barring same-sex couples from getting married is unconstitutional, said a human rights monitor, welcoming the new law as an important precedent for equal rights around the world.
From: Human Rights Watch

05/16/2008 "The conference agreement on the 2008 [U.S.] Farm Bill makes numerous improvements in domestic food assistance programs to help low-income Americans put food on the table in the face of rising food and fuel prices," says policy analyst Dottie Rosenbaum.
From: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

05/15/2008 A number of international aid organizations and foreign governments are helping Chinese authorities respond to the Monday earthquake that claimed over tens of thousands of lives and destroyed 3.5 million homes.

05/15/2008 Selling excess rice held in Japan and imported from the United States would incite a rapid drop in the global price of rice but requires immediate action from Tokyo and Washington, write former editor of The Rice Trader, Tom Slayton, and policy analyst, Peter Timmer.

05/15/2008 Four prominent American social justice groups are launching a campaign to halve poverty in the United States in 10 years.

05/15/2008 WASHINGTON, May 14 (OneWorld) - Americans -- from nonprofit groups to the Rockefeller family -- are starting to fight back against the petroleum industry, which is earning record profits as consumers face spiraling gas prices.

05/13/2008 Why do some people continue to hold Rachel Carson responsible for millions of malaria deaths, ask John Quiggin and Tim Lambert.

05/13/2008 FALLUJAH, May 12 (IPS) - Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah.

05/12/2008 Immigrant Latinos in the United States are living under a "matrix of laws, social customs, economic institutions and symbolic systems" hauntingly similar to the Jim Crow laws that once institutionalized race segregation in parts of America, writes Roberto Lovato.
From: The Nation

05/10/2008 NEW YORK, May 9 (OneWorld) - A human rights watchdog has launched a unique nationwide campaign to pressure the Bush administration to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

05/07/2008 UNITED NATIONS, May 7 (OneWorld) - A major U.S.-based humanitarian aid group is urging the Bush administration to revise its aid policy toward Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) and provide immediate assistance to the cyclone victims in that country.

05/07/2008 President Bush asked last week that the United States give $770 million in emergency food aid to afflicted regions, but this only amounts to an imperfect first step to confront the global food crisis, says economist Arvind Subramanian.

05/06/2008 The United States should repeal restrictions on humanitarian assistance to Burma and help those affected by Cyclone Nargis, said an international refugee agency yesterday, higlighting the "tremendous need inside Burma."

05/05/2008 Over 30,000 passionate protesters took to the streets last week to oppose immigration raids and deportations, reflecting a revitalized unity and fervor in the immigrants' rights community, writes Roberto Lovato.