POLITICS-US: Outspoken War Critic Poised for Green Party Run

With media attention focused almost exclusively on the dramatic contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, millions of U.S. voters probably have no inkling that there is a ballot option beyond the Democratic and Republican Parties.

POLITICS: Can the U.S. and Iran Share the Middle East?

By negotiating a Shiite truce, Tehran embarrassed Washington last week and arguably proved itself to be a more potent stabiliser of southern Iraq.

POLITICS-US: McCain’s Vietnam Lessons Unlearned?

Throughout a long career in politics, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has had his foreign policy shaped by his and the United States' experience in the Vietnam War.

POLITICS-US: Religious Right – Growing Pains, or Death Throes?

During a recent appearance at the National Religious Broadcasters conference, Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, expressed deep concern about the future of the conservative Christian movement he helped build and define.

MEXICO-US: NAFTA Renegotiation – Promise or Mirage?

Trade unions and leftwing activists in Mexico are pleased that both U.S. presidential hopefuls for the Democratic Party have said they will withdraw their country from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) unless the treaty is renegotiated.

POLITICS-US: Vets Press McCain to Back Greater Benefits

A leading political action committee founded by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans has launched a new internet video and petition demanding Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain throw his support behind a new G.I. Bill to provide improved education benefits for soldiers returning home from the two wars.

POLITICS-US: Campaigns Spar Over Where to Focus Troops

Last week's violent clashes in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Basra reverberated all the way to Washington, where suddenly, the Iraq war was thrust back into the limelight just as the 2008 primary season enters its final stretch.

POLITICS-US: Media Wrong on Rev. Wright, Critics Say

Amid the explosive controversy over remarks made in sermons by Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor, critics are charging that the U.S. mainstream media has distorted his comments, failed to understand the African American church, and sought to punish the Democratic Party presidential hopeful through "guilt by association".

POLITICS-US: McCain’s Gaffes Reflect Bush’s Iran-Qaeda Myth

Sen. John McCain's confusion in recent allegations of Iranian training of al Qaeda fighters in Iraq is the result of a drumbeat of official propaganda about close Iran-al Qaeda ties that the George W. Bush administration and neoconservatives have promoted ever since early 2002.

POLITICS-US: Future Hazy for Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative

With the days of his administration numbered, President George W. Bush is working to shore up what was intended to be the centrepiece of his domestic policy agenda, his faith-based initiative.

POLITICS-US: We Don&#39t Do Torture – Especially in Debates

Media critics, foreign policy experts and human rights advocates are charging that questions asked by the moderators of the televised debates among U.S. presidential hopefuls have frequently been trivial and designed to produce conflict to boost ratings, while ignoring many of the most pressing issues facing the United States.

POLITICS-US: Dem Race Could Be Decided By Party Elites

Bringing an abrupt end to Sen. Barack Obama's winning streak in the primary battles for the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, rival Sen. Hillary Clinton reinvigorated her campaign by taking three of four primaries on Tuesday - including key delegate-rich states Ohio and Texas - and by doing so, raised ominous questions for the Obama campaign.

POLITICS-US: Can Obama Deliver Rebirth of a Nation?

Illinois Senator Barack Obama has made a political career of trying to straddle delicate lines. But come November, he hopes to instead break historic barriers by becoming the first black man to be elected president of the United States.

POLITICS-US: Right Paints Obama as Manchurian Candidate

Since launching his bid for the U.S. presidency in 2007, Senator Barack Obama has weathered attacks on his background, race, name and religion.

INDIA/US: Last Ditch Push For Nuclear Deal

With the presidential race gathering momentum in the United States, a last ditch effort is being mounted to push through the controversial U.S.-India nuclear cooperation deal, before the window of political opportunity slams shut in Washington.

CUBA: Cuban-Americans React to Fidel’s Resignation

Cuban President Fidel Castro’s decision to resign his political office was met with a wide range of emotions and feelings in Florida, home to the largest Cuban population outside Cuba.

POLITICS-CUBA: U.S. Awaits Its Own Transition to Review Policy

Despite Tuesday’s historic announcement by President Fidel Castro that he is retiring from public office, U.S. citizens must await the departure of their own sitting president 11 months from now before Washington’s nearly 50-year hostility toward the Caribbean island is likely to be reviewed. Even then, change is not guaranteed.

POLITICS-US: Election Outcome May Hinge on Youth Vote

Voters under the age of 30 are becoming more influential in the American political process, according to recent statistics. When historians write about the 2008 Presidential election, they may very well dub it the "Year of the Youth Vote."

POLITICS-US: Obama Surpasses Clinton as Democratic Front-Runner

Landslide victories in three Democratic presidential primaries Tuesday appear to have propelled Sen. Barack Obama past Sen. Hillary Clinton into front-runner status in the race for the party’s nomination.

POLITICS-US: The King Is Dead. Long Live McCain?

At the end of last summer, Sen. John McCain's bid for the Republican nomination for president was running on fumes. Broke and dejected, McCain was polling below New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and senator-turned-actor-turned-candidate Fred Thompson.

POLITICS-US: Iranian-Americans Seek Least-Hawkish Candidate

Jaded toward their government back home and cynical of the current U.S. administration and the Republicans they historically supported, a new generation of Iranian-Americans appears to be looking to Barack Obama to bring about change, especially with regards to U.S. foreign policy toward Iran.