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March 16, 2006 Latin America And Asia Are At Last Breaking Free Of Washington's Grip By Noam Chomsky The prospect that Europe and Asia might move towards greater independence has troubled US planners since the second world war. The concerns have only risen as the "tripolar order" - Europe...

Root and Branch: American Forces Wipe Out Family C. L. Cook PEJ News March 17, 2006 In a terse statement, American military officials said two women and a child died in the raid. But police and witnesses in Ishaqi, a small town 100 kilometers north of Baghdad, tell a different story. They...

March 17, 2006 US-Backed Repression Soars Under President Gloria Macapagal Philippines: the Killing Fields of Asia By JAMES PETRAS and ROBIN EASTMAN-ABAYA Since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo joined the US global "War on Terrorism", the Philippines has become the site of an on-going...

Fishing for a Pretext to Squeeze Iran By Juan Cole Editor’s Note: Truthdig’s Middle Eastern affairs expert argues that the Iranian nuclear issue “has not reached the point of crisis, and therefore other motivations must be sought for the Bush administration’s breathless rhetoric." UPDATE: On...

Scientists discover new Afghan oil Wednesday 15 March 2006, 5:13 Makka Time, 2:13 GMT Two geological basins in northern Afghanistan hold 18 times more oil and triple the natural gas resources than was previously thought, government scientists have revealed. Nearly 1.6 billion barrels of...

Breaking: Sandra Day O'Connor rips into GOP, DeLay, Cornyn, and warns of the "beginnings" of dictatorship NPR's Nina Totenberg aired an amazing story this morning about a talk that just-resigned Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor gave at Georgetown University. The first woman to serve on...

Looking for answers? Follow the money Nations pursue foreign policies for wealth and power, either to get more of it or to protect it from somebody else who is trying to take it. >by Jerry West March 10, 2006 What are we doing in Afghanistan? That is a question that many Canadians...

March 1, 2006 An Open Letter to the NDP and Liberal MPs Canada and the American Empire By JOHN RYAN As a long time supporter of progressive political policies in Canada I was perplexed and dismayed by the results of our recent federal election. My consternation led me to write the article that...

Forbes announced today that this year we have produced one-hundred new billionaires bringing the total to eight-hundred. I was not one of them. Why is getting filthy rich a growth industry. :)

In 1998, Dick Cheney, now US vice-president but then chief executive of a major oil services company, remarked: "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian." But the oil and gas there is worthless until it is moved...

The Towering Solons of Abortion Email this item Email Print this item Print Posted on Mar. 7, 2006 By Molly Ivins AUSTIN, Texas—South Dakota is so rarely found on the leading edge of the far out, the wiggy, the California-esque. But it has now staked its claim. First to Outlaw Abortion...

March 6, 2006 A Nation Polarized Between Rich and Poor America's Bleak Jobs Future By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS On February 20 Forbes.com told its readers with a straight face that "the American job-generation machine rolls on. The economy will create 19 million new payroll jobs in the decade to...

Americans' "Internal Enemy" Le Figaro Thursday 02 March 2006 According to the head of American public health service, the threat of obesity could overtake that of terrorism. As far as the Department of Health is concerned, if the epidemic of obesity in the United States is not...

How Canada-U.S. integration is leading to the privatization of the Canadian health care system This article is adapted from Maude Barlow’s new book Too Close for Comfort: Canada’s Future within Fortress North America. Too Close for Comfort Canada’s universal social programs were forged in the...

February 24, 2006 For Those Who Haven't Noticed Watching the Dissolution of Palestine By JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN Oxford, England. For those who haven't noticed, Israel opposes a two-state solution. It has been doing everything in its power to prevent a Palestinian state from emerging and will...

Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs' By Nat Parry, Consortium News. Posted February 23, 2006. Is the Pentagon building U.S.-based prison camps for Muslim immigrants? Evidence points to the possibility. Not that George W. Bush needs much encouragement, but Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested to...