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• Loonie's rise may continue in '08, say experts
• Law Gives Chinese Workers New Rights
• Boris Kagarlitsky | A Draw for Ford, but a Victory for All
• Government Version of Bhutto Killing Questioned
• Top Rival Calls for Musharraf to Step Down Immediately
• Pakistan's Largest City Paralyzed
• Iran's Inner and Outer Circles of Influence and Power
• Rioting Over Kenyan Election Kills 149
• Kenyan Count Halted Amid Unrest
• Pakistan Polls Postponed, Rioting Continues
• Bhutto’s Son and Husband Named Party Leaders also at Son successor to slain Pakistani opposition leader
• Pakistan Government Shifts Story on How Bhutto Died
• Kenyans Riot as Vote Count Drags On
• Obituary: Benazir Bhutto, 54, Weathered Political Storm
• Tariq Ali | A Tragedy Born of Military Despotism and Anarchy
• Pakistan's Bhutto Assassinated
• Pakistan's Missing Are Doubly Lost
• Assassination Poses Dilemma for US
• Sharif's Party to Boycott Elections
• Le Monde | The Press Under Surveillance
• Japan Mines "Flammable Ice," Flirts With Environmental Disaster Bloomberg's Shigeru Sato writes: "Fifty-five million years ago the world's climate was catastrophically changed when volcanoes melted natural gas frozen in the seabed. Now Japan plans to drill for the same icy crystals to end its reliance on imported energy."
• Mario Roy | Afghanistan Fatigue
• Middle East Censors Seek to Limit Web Access
• Survivors Remember Tsunami Three Years On
• Total of 562 Mexican immigrants have died crossing U.S. border
• US Special Envoy to Sudan Resigns
• Toiling for Scraps in Burma's Mines
• J. Sri Raman | Where Democracy Does Not Suit New Delhi
• US Officials See Waste in Billions Sent to Pakistan
• Tropical Virus Moves to Italy
• The African Front
• Stakes High For US and Argentina in Cash Scandal
• Eric Denece and Alain Rodier | The Report on Iran
• Sanctions Against Cuba Are Excessive, GAO Says
• Picture of Secret Detentions Emerges in Pakistan
• Yemen: The Silent Calvary of African Migrants
• Habitat Loss Forces India's Tigers to High Ground
• J. Sri Raman | Names in India's Far-Right Games
• Families Pay as US Agents Under Attack Fire Tear Gas Into Mexico
• NATO's Terror Plan Unravels as Canada Threatens Afghan Pullout
• Blank Check for Afghanistan Passes, Iraq Funds to Come
• DOD Probes Handling of Shooting That Killed 19 Afghanistan Civilians
• Old US Allies, Still Hiding Deep in Laos
• Erik Leaver | Midwest City Fights Back Against Iran War-Mongering
• French Senators Demand European Moratorium on Biofuel
• India "Star Wars" Plan Risks New Arms Race
• Argentina's New President Levels Charges at US
• Somalia Descends Into Africa's Worst Crisis
• Intimates of Iran's Supreme Guide Attack Ahmadinejad's Diplomacy
• Ecuador to Evict US, Offer Air Base to China
• China to Post US Safety Officials in Food Factories
• Hezbollah Reigns Supreme Over Ruins of South Lebanon
• Russia Begins Arms Treaty Freeze
• EU Court Rules Unions Can Take Action Over Cheap Labor
• Joshua Holland | The American Dream Is Alive and Well ... in Finland!
• "The Biggest Environmental Crime in History"
• Twenty-Two Killed in Explosions at UN in Algiers
• Stephane Bussard | Universalism Given a Pounding
• Opposition to Take Part in Pakistan Elections
• Intelligence Expert Who Rewrote Book on Iran
• Despite Report, France and Germany Keep Pressure on Iran
• John Lamperti | Freedom Award Misnamed
• Dilip Hiro | The Zero-Sum Fiasco
• When Bankers Jump Out the Window!
• Canada's top court dismisses extradition appeal of suspect in U.S. slaying
• Lawyers Boycott Courts Across Pakistan
• Deal Made on State Department Contractors
• Details in Military Notes Led to Shift on Iran, US Says
• Matthew Rothschild | Bush May Still Bomb Iran, Despite NIE
• Gael Brustier | Hugo Chavez: The Paradoxical Neo-Conservative Defeat
• Mark Weisbrot | Venezuela Is Not Florida
• State Holds Off on Saudi Arms Deal
• Suicide Blasts "Welcome" Gates to Kabul
• Ecuador: ‘Constituent revolution’ begins
• Bolivia: Right-wing violence as draft constitution approved
• Venezuela, Colombia: Uribe bans Chavez from seeking peace
• Venezuela: Democracy or dictatorship?
• Reflections from the Venezuela Constitutional Reform Referendum
• Venezuela: Chavez — workers must be in the vanguard of constructing socialism
• Australian-Venezuela solidarity brigade
• Australia: GM crop bans lifted in NSW, Victoria
• Australia: Racist police violence in Melbourne suburb
• Australia: Unchecked police corruption, violence
• East Timor: Court rules Balibo killings a war crime
• East Timor: For justice and human rights
• Philippines: Rebellion fails but dissatisfaction continues
• Saudi Arabia: Vicious sentence exposes Western hypocrisy
• Burma: ‘Heading for a new crisis’
• China: Public sector less than 40% of economy
• History of the Comintern: Colonised peoples take the lead
• End support to Afghan narco-regime: Bring the troops home now!
• Afghan Bomber Hits NATO Convoy; Ten Hurt
• Canadian Judge Rules: US Not a Safe Country
• Chile's Flourishing Fish Farms Prompt Fears for Ecosystem
• Chinese Challenge on Climate Change Raises Bali Stakes
• Forests, the Great Green Hope?
• 5,960 Civilians Killed in Mogadishu in 2007
• US Says Iran Ended Atomic Arms Work in 2003
• Putin's Party Overwhelms Russian Election
• Venezuela Hands Narrow Defeat to Chavez Plan
• Democracy prevails, the Bolivarian revolution continues: Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network statement
• Quebec filmmaker decries the genocide of the Algonquin
• Musharraf's Emergency Upends Pakistan's Courts
• Chavez for Life?
• Darfur Mission "Behind Schedule"
• J. Sri Raman | Passing the Baton to Democracy?
• November
• Experts Divided Over Iranian Missile Capabilities
• Interview | Scott Ritter: Bombs Away?
• Nicholas Stern | Bali: Now the Rich Must Pay
• Le Monde | Europe at the Hands of Beijing
• Bangladesh: Fear of Famine Follows Cyclone Havoc
• Mackenzie Valley pipeline hearings wrap up in Inuvik
• Serge Truffaut | Russian Payback
• A "Surge" for Afghanistan?
• Musharraf Quits Pakistani Army Post
• Is ElBaradei a Trustworthy Arbiter?
• Indian MPs Slam Government Over US Nuclear Deal
• J. Sri Raman | Exiled by Bigots' Edicts
• American Transnationals Keep Undermining Trade Union Growth
• Rudd Turns A New Page For Labor
• Steve Biddulph | The Party's Over for Australia's Liberals
• Cuba: US artists demand end of blockade
• Colombia: Uribe ends Chavez-led hostage negotiations
• Venezuela: massive show of support for reforms
• New Zealand: Building solidarity with Venezuela's revolution
• New Zealand: Residents Action Movement fighting corporate greed
• Australia: Howard/Rudd welfare 'quarantine' condemned
• Australia: Howard's overboard - but the struggle continues
• Australia: Activists blockade coal train
• Germany: Rail strikes bring country to a standstill
• Britain: Attempts to renew anti-war party
• Britain: Two conferences for split Respect
• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge tribunal holds first public hearing
• Pakistan: Resistance to military rule continues
• Support Pakistan democracy activists!
• Iran: IAEA again verifies Tehran's NPT compliance
• Iran: The Uninvited Wildcard in Mideast Talks
• Rioting in Paris Suburbs
• Australia Gets First Female Deputy Prime Minister
• Australia's Path Bends Away From US
• Second Day of Protests Against Putin in Russia
• Mexican Funds Will Protect Butterflies
• Bitterest Rival of Musharraf Returns Home
• Two Suicide Attacks Kill 35 in Pakistan
• Majority of Afghanistan Under Taliban Control
• Far From Beijing's Reach, Officials Bend Energy Rules
• Iran in Crosshairs as Fuel Delivery to Gulf Forces Increases
• US Blames Iran-Backed Group for Baghdad Bombing
• Mark Weisbrot | Holocaust Denial, American Style
• Speakers Aim to Put a Human Face on the Tar Sands Debate vueweekly.com
• Putin Warns NATO Against Border Buildup
• Pakistan's Taliban at the Gates
• J. Sri Raman | The Battle Lines in Pakistan
• Musharraf May Quit Army by Saturday
• Big Success or Sad Story?
• Don Martin | Harper Earns Green Stripes by Protecting Vast Areas of Northern Land
• Canadian Terror Trial Kept Secret, Groups Say
• Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann | Losing Afghanistan
• Huge Nature Reserve Created for Bonobos
• Europeans, Let Us Prevent the War Against Iran
• Riyadh Fears an American Attack on Iran
• US, Russia Agree on Plutonium Disposal
• Japanese Whalers Chafe Under Curbs
• Court Clears Musharraf's Continued Rule
• US Plans Expansion of Military Role in Pakistan
• US Secretly Aids Pakistan in Guarding Nuclear Arms
• Pakistan Frees Bhutto
• Released, Bhutto Rejects Caretaker Government
• Abercrombie: Bush Lacks Authority to Attack Iran
• Election Watchdog Group: Russia Not Cooperating
• Greenpeace Blocks Shipment of Indonesian Palm Oil
• 15,000 Left Homeless by Earthquake in Chile
• Greg Palast | The Assassination of Hugo Chavez
• Victims of Colombian Conflict Sue Chiquita Brands
• Jonathan Schell | The Road From Washington to Karachi to Nuclear Anarchy
• Burmese Authorities Arrest Two Prominent Dissidents
• J. Sri Raman | The Importance of Being Nawaz Sharif
• Who Controls the Media in Europe?
• Le Monde | Descent Into Hell
• Ceasefire Fails to Quell Darfur Violence
• Canadian Crude: Owning Land On A Pipeline
• Venezuela: Reform battle continues as Chavez ally splits
• South Pacific: Venezuela expands oil aid
• Venezuela's revolution for humanity
• Argentina: Voter apathy delivers Fernandez victory
• Afghanistan: Three western districts fall to Taliban
• Pakistan: People challenge US-backed dictator
• Pakistan: `Musharraf's days are up'
• Support Pakistan’s democracy movement!
• Australia: Socialist Alliance launches campaign
• Australia: On the socialist campaign trail
• China: Behind Beijing's `social harmony' rhetoric
• Cyprus: Can the people take the future in their hands?
• Georgia: Mass protests demand pro-US president resign
• Robyn Blumner | Third World Blood, Sweat and Tears in US Goods
• European Panel Decries Terrorism Blacklist Process
• Chris Hedges | At the Mercy of the Military
• UN Struggles to Understand Raid on the Euphrates
• Stephen Zunes | Pakistan's Dictatorships and the United States
• Pakistani Officials Order Detention of Bhutto and Block a March
• Defiant Bhutto Vows Mass Protest Against Musharraf
• Frank Rich | The Coup at Home
• Pakistan Nuclear Security Questioned
• Pakistani Leader Blocks Protests, Creating Impasse
• White House Decides Aid to Pakistan Should Continue
• Pakistan: Bhutto Under House Detention
• J. Sri Raman | The Missing Factor in Musharraf's Plan
• Study Proves It: Tar Sands Operations Poisoning Athabasca Basin, Fort Chipewyan By RENATO GANDIA, SUN MEDIA
• "A Statement by Burma's Elected/Deposed Leader"
• In Trademarking Its Coffee, Ethiopia Seeks Fair Trade
• Peru Trade Bill: It's the Money, Stupid
• Pierre Haski | Sarkozy Says "I Love You" to the American Congress
• Rising Food Prices to Hit Consumption
• Alain Campiotti | Al-Qaeda Provokes Rejection Response
• Palm Oil Warning for Indonesia
• Fish Vanishing From Southeast Asian Oceans
• Outrage as Timber Baron Walks Free
• The Pakistani Accident
• Bhutto Call for Protest Sets Up Confrontation
• Australia: Canberra's support for Burma junta condemned
• Australia: On the socialist campaign trail
• Australia: Socialist Alliance candidate addresses Melbourne MUA
• Australia: Moore for less free speech
• East Timor: ‘We don’t want Australian troops’
• New Zealand: Behind the ‘terror raids’
• Sri Lanka: Tamil rebels attack air base
• Tariq Ali on Afghanistan: Six years of a war of terror
• Iran: Bush announces 'new' sanctions
• South Africa: 'Babylon' and the murder of Lucky Dube
• Britain: Respect suffers split
• Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas leaders abducted
• UN condemns US blockade on Cuba again
• Venezuela: Right-wing protests as constitutional reform debate continues
• Bolivia: 'A project for the liberation of the poor’
• J. Sri Raman | Nuclear Fallout From Imploding Pakistan?
• Fresh Unrest as Pakistan Mulls Elections
• Ousted Chief Justice in Pakistan Urges Defiance
• US Military Aid to Pakistan Misses Its al-Qaeda Target
• Pakistan Police Beat Protesting Lawyers
• Experts: No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
• Le Monde | The Internet and Private Life
• Mexicans Appalled by Scenes From Flooded State
• US Alliance With Musharraf Falls Under New Doubt
• Thousands Face Down Pakistani Police
• In Pakistan, Officials See Few Options for US
• Peace Lures Wildlife Back to South Sudan
• UN Envoy Arrives in Burma for Crisis Talks Amid Expulsion Row
• Sri Lanka's Government Assassinates Opposition Peace Negotiator
• Musharraf Declares Emergency Rule in Pakistan
• Turks Demand Action, Not Words
• Serge Truffaut | Turkish Bodybuilding
• US Health Care Comes Up Short in Survey of Seven Nations
• Top UN Official in Burma Ordered Out
• Cynthia Boaz | Burma's Uprising: People Power, Not Political Puppetry
• Joseph L. Galloway | Inexorable March Toward War With Iran?
• Japan Pulls Out of Afghanistan Coalition
• Ignacio Ramonet | Voracity
• J. Sri Raman | Delhi Tries Bush Tack on Nuke Deal
• October
• Burma Monks Said to March Again
• Burma Army "Recruiting Children"
• Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math
• Hagel Calls For Direct Talks With Iran
• China's Birth Defects Soar Due to Pollution
• Argentine First Lady Now President-Elect
• Egypt to Build Nuclear Plants
• Burmese Activists Plan Return From Thai Border Town
• UN Questions US Anti-Iran Rhetoric
• Ebadi: Sanctions Against Tehran Are Counterproductive
• Iran Accuses US of Helping Kurdish Rebels
• Jeff Stein | The Nuclear Bombshell That Never Went Off
• US Ups Nuclear Tensions With New Iran Sanctions
• Ahmadinejad Attempts to Strengthen His Position
• US Ignores Angry Reaction to Secret Poppy Spraying Test
• A Monk's Tale of Protest and Escape From Burma
• Paris Suggests EU Tax on Imports From Non-Kyoto States
• Economic Growth and France's Summit for the Environment
• Risks of US-Iran War Through Misunderstanding Grow
• The Secret History of the Impending War With Iran
• Maya Schenwar | War Supplemental Makes Room for Iran
• Uneasy Days for Monks in Burma
• Resistance and the struggle for a free Burma
• Marshall Islands: US opposes nuke-test health plan
• Venezuela: Campaign for socialism grows
• Venezuela to write off Guyana debt
• Bolivia: In death, a powerful symbol was born
• Ecuador: Forging a `citizens' revolution'
• British postal strike brings mail to standstill
• Britain: Rumbles in Respect
• Respect's Salma Yaqoob: ‘Determined campaigning and a radical agenda’
• Afghanistan: US officer -- ‘Taliban has strong recruiting base’
• China: Wage share plunges
• New Zealand: Gains for right in council elections
• New Zealand: 'Anti-terror' raids condemned
• Australia: Burma protesters call for end to military ties
• Australia: Socialist candidate opposes NT intervention
• Australia: Reconciliation needs justice -- not Howard's hypocrisy Australia's PM John Howard announced his plan to hold a referendum to alter the preamble to the constitution to include an acknowledgment of the original inhabitants of Australia.
• Landlocked Mongolia becomes new maritime ally for United States (Somebody should have looked at a map.)
• J. Sri Raman | When Modi Invokes Mahatma Gandhi's Name
• Pakistan on the Front Line
• Kurds Also Fighting on Iran Border
• Cheney: US Will Not Let Iran Go Nuclear
• Poor Countries Wag Fingers at Rich Ones
• Microsoft Concedes in European Antitrust Case
• In Burma, Fear Is a Constant Companion
• Iran's Top Nuclear Negotiator Resigns
• Conference builds left alliances and international solidarity
• Bush to Unveil "New Initiatives" on Cuba
• Guatemala Union Heads Killed Despite US Trade Deal
• J. Sri Raman | The Return of Benazir Bhutto
• Five Million Burmese Are Going Hungry, Warns UN
• Turkish PM Calls on Iraq to Shut Kurd Rebel Camps
• J. Sri Raman | The Bigger Threat From India's Blasts
• Bhutto Returns to Pakistan After Eight Years
• Key Democrats Turn Against Armenian Bill
• British Columbia Protects Forests to Save Caribou
• Alain Faujas | Chinese Money Inundates Africa
• In Southern Darfur, Signs of Another Massacre
• Pelosi: "Congress Must Approve US Attack vs Iran"
• In Iran, Putin Warns Against Military Action
• HIV Treatment "Failing" in Africa
• Canada Not Listening to Leading Environmentalist
• The Amazon Burns Once Again
• David Morse | With the Lost Boys in Southern Sudan (Part 2)
• China Warns US on Dalai Lama Trip
• Cynthia Boaz | Burma's Junta: Too Late to Turn Back the Clock
• UN Envoy Says Burma Must Halt Arrests
• Environmental Problems Loom in Burma
• Namibia Deports US Security Employees
• David Morse | With the Lost Boys in Southern Sudan (Part 1)
• Congo Pygmies Go High-Tech to Protect Forest Home
• Congo's Tormented Women
• After the Riots, Burma Returns to an Unspoken Terror
• Greenpeace Hijacks UK Power Plant
• Le Temps | The President's Power
• Cynthia Boaz | Burma's Struggle: The Avowed Against the "Atheists"
• Hugo Chavez: Social Democrat or Revolutionary?
• Full Horror of Burmese Junta's Repression of Monks Emerges
• Repercussions of the US blockade on the health care sector in Cuba
• Polio in Nigeria Traced to Mutating Vaccine
• Greenpeace Tracks Whales As Japan Prepares to Hunt
• David Bacon | The Killing Dust
• Politics' Last Superstar The loyalty Castro has inspired means Cuba will follow its unique path long after he has gone -- by Ignacio Ramonet, The Guardian
• J. Sri Raman | Dressing Democracy in Uniform
• "Zero" Amazon Deforestation Possible by 2015
• Priest Convicted in Argentine "Dirty War" Tribunal
• Putin: No Proof Iran Seeks Nuclear Arms
• Resistance, Not Repression, Is the Real Story From Burma
• Petraeus Steps Up Accusations Against Iran
• Five Myths About Sick Old Europe
• D.S. Mieville | In Monaco, Order Reigns
• South America Chokes As Amazon Burns
• Gil Courtemanche | Stephen Harper's Smoking Trails
• US 'War Alert' Issued To Russia, Western Allies
• Le Monde | Putin Plays With Fire
• North Koreans Agree to Disable Nuclear Facilities
• Protesters Stay Put to Battle Junta as World Waits on Burmese Border
• Monks Defended by Power of the People
• Burma's Junta Turns to Intimidation
• Burma Citizens Launch Silent Protest
• Reese Erlich | Bush's Agenda in Iran
• "It Is in North Korea's Interest to Maintain Tension"
• East Timor: Activists and victims call for justice
• Taiwan: Referendum in sight after UN bid failed
• Cuba: Global support for the Cuban 5 grows
• Peru: How Cuba's solidarity makes a difference
• Venezuela: Revolution brings massive social gains
• Australia: Hugo Chavez to visit
• Australia: Save posties' jobs!
• Australia: Protest against new nuclear institute
• Australia: Howard announces feeble renewable energy target
• Tamil refugees `must be resettled in Australia'
• Socialists support Burmese democracy struggle
• Burma pro-democracy protests supported
• Burma's long struggle for democracy
• UN Envoy Meets With Burma Junta Leader; Death Toll Still Uncertain
• Burma: UN Getting Nowhere With the Generals
• Huge Crowds in Costa Rica Protest US Pact
• Ann Wright | Afghanistan, Pakistan Bounties Harming Civilians
• Bomber Kills At Least 11 on Afghan Bus
• Seymour Hersh | Shifting Targets: New Plans for Iran
• Chorus of Bush Advisers Seek Iran War
• Groups Struggle to Tally Burma's Dead
• Le Monde | Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the IMF
• Another Disaster Brews in Darfur
• Darfur Raid Kills Ten African Peacekeepers
• September
• Hope Wanes Among Protesters in Myanmar
• Rare Species of Animals and Plants Lost in Greek Fires
• Germany Warns Citizens to Avoid Using Wi-Fi
• Nuclear Agreement With US Rips India Apart
• True Burma Death Toll May Never Be Known
• Iran Sanctions Decision Delayed
• Iran ready to work with US and stabilise Iraq The Financial Times
• Military Standing Between Bush and War with Iran
• How Senators voted Re: Lieberman-Kyl Iran amendment
• Senate Urges Bush to Declare Iran Guard a Terrorist Group
• Nine Killed in Second Day of Myanmar Crackdown
• Jean Daniel | Friends of Bush or of His People?
• Burmese Riot Police Attack Protesting Monks
• J. Sri Raman | The Companies They Keep in Burma
• Frederic Koller | Burmese Junta Under Pressure
• Ahmadinejad at Columbia: Sparks Fly Letters to the New York Times
• Junta Threatens Protesting Monks
• Inuit Stake Their Claim in Race for Oil-Rich Arctic
• Canadian military wrote Afghan president's speech: NDP
• William Fisher | US Ally Thumbs Nose at Its Biggest Donor
• Berlin Says US and France Guilty of Iran Hypocrisy
• Didier Billion | Ahmadinejad in New York
• Iranian Academic Society Condemns Lee Bollinger Remarks Iranian Students News Agency
• Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1 By Juan Cole: Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war.
• Secret US Air Force Team to Perfect Plan for Iran Strike
• EU Clashes With US Over Airline Emissions Trade
• Merkel to Meet Dalai Lama Amid Tension With China
• Monks' Protest Is Challenging Burmese Junta
• Belgium Poised to Split Apart
• Eighty-Two Killed in Afghanistan Violence
• Costa Rica Dealt Wild Card in Trade Pact Rift
• Dubai Buys 20 Percent of Nasdaq Stock Market
• Emmanuel Todd: Kouchner's "Military-Without-Borders"
• Saudis Break With US Over Feared Dollar Collapse
• Pierre Haski | Odor of Corruption Over Saudi "Contract of the Century"
• African Skies Rain Death, Destruction on Villagers
• Labor Groups Differ on Peru Free Trade Deal
• Stephane Marchand | The New Oil Yalta
• Peter Galbraith | The Victor?
• Pentagon, State Department Debunk Bush Fabrications on Iran
• Britain: TUC gives Brown a frosty reception
• Cambodians set up Casa Cuba
• China: Strikes and riots
• East Timor: Challenges for the Xanana alliance
• East Timor: DSP calls for Australian troops’ withdrawal
• Australia: Students led the anti-APEC way
• Australia: Police state no match for people power
• Australia: Anti-APEC protesters: defiant and united
• El Salvador: Nurses’ union leaders detained
• Leaving Ecuador's oil in the ground
• Chile: Echoes of dictatorship in the Latin ‘jaguar’
• Washington’s silent war on Venezuela and Bolivia
• Bolivia: No longer victims and slaves
• Bolivia needs our solidarity
• Ecosystem Decimated by American War in Vietnam
• Russia's Aggressive Moves Spark New Cold War Fears
• Yes, Cuba's healthcare is first world - and it's despite the blockade The Guardian blogs
• Peruvian Communities Say "No" to Mining Company
• J. Sri Raman | The Mathematics of Military Rule
• Abizaid: World Could Abide Nuclear Iran
• Drumbeat for Attack on Iran Grows Louder
• European Court Rejects Microsoft Antitrust Appeal
• IAEA Chief Warns Against Striking Iran
• Pierre Haski | Kouchner and the "War" in Iran: Look Out, Danger!
• Analysts: US Strikes on Iran Predicted Over Nuclear Fears
• Shifting oil sands Telegraph UK Magazine
• Russia Unveils the "Father of All Bombs"
• Washington "Misled" Blair Over Plans for Postwar Iraq
• Australia: Facebook Ban Incurs "Lactivist" Wrath
• The Shaman Is In
• Anti-APEC protesters: united and peaceful
• Iran's Unlikely TV Hit [WSJ]
• Australia Election Day 2007: Labor leader Kevin Rudd promises to leave Iraq if elected Rudd repeats Iraq stance after Bush meeting
• Latin America's Surprising New Eco-Warriors
• Maurice Lemoine | To Arms! Le Monde diplomatique's Maurice Lemoine contrasts the UN's and the EU's stated goals of controlling the international arms trade with the flourishing condition of that business.
• When Wishful Thinking Replaces Resistance by Jean Bricmotnt Many people in the antiwar movement try to reassure themselves: Bush cannot possibly attack Iran. He does not have the means to do so, or, perhaps, even he is not foolish enough to engage in such an enterprise.
• August
• Western Sahara and the new international order
• Latin America: Building an alternative to ‘free trade’
• Cuba will not be going to the World Boxing Championships
• Bolivia: End of the new social pact?
• Venezuela: Promoting ‘democracy’ through civil disobedience
• Venezuela wants Exxon, Conoco Phillips to leave country
• Venezuela: Radical proposals spark debate
• Australia: Venezuelan revolutionaries to address solidarity forum
• Australia: Why is our health system going 'sicko'
• Australia: APEC protesters: 'We will not be silenced'
• East Timor: Fretilin calls for Australian troops’ withdrawal
• "DDM" Canadian Police Pose As SPP Protestors To Incite Violence
• A Free-for-All Over Oil Money in Nigeria
• America Watches Its Stars Wane and Its Stripes Fade
• Documents: US Funnels Aid to Christian Groups in Egypt
• Mahtaub Hojjati | Why Teamsters Union President Worries Iran's Mullahs
• US Actions Against Iran Raise War Risk, Many Fear
• Asian Stocks Slide Again Despite Late Wall Street Rally
• Making Genocide in Darfur Personal
• Power Vacuum in Oil-Rich Basra Raises Tensions, Factions
• Swine Plague: Romania Criticizes Smithfield's Attitude
• Rethinking Road Security
• Sam Ferguson | Priest May Walk in Argentina's "Dirty War" Tribunal
• Stephane Bussard | Russia's Reawakening
• The New York Times | Amateur Hour on Iran
• Allies Worried About US Posturing on Iran
• Millions Say Going Green "Too Much Effort"
• Mark Weisbrot | Eyes Wide Shut: The International Media Looks at Venezuela
• Bush Will Declare Iranian Guards Terrorists
• Perils of a New Pacific Arms Race
• Exodus of Her Majesty's Secret Service Agents
• A Laboratory for Latin America's New Militarism
• Serge Truffaut | Musharraf at an Impasse
• Le Monde | The Arctic for Everyone
• J. Sri Raman | Opposition to US-India Nuclear Deal Dropped
• Unearthing Anguish in a Troubled Land
• How the "Good War" in Afghanistan Went Bad
• Bush, Congress Could Collide on Iran
• Russia Resumes Cold War Flights
• Geoffrey Millard | Nuclear Power and Iranians
• British Military Asks US Forces to Leave Afghan Province
• J. Sri Raman | China Meets the World
• China Threatens "Nuclear Option" of Dollar Sales
• At US Base in Germany, Soaring Building Costs Probed
• Ecuador: The indigenous movement and Correa
• New Zealand: Voices of peace
• West Papua: Indonesian military TNI threatens to use militia groups
• Australia: Howard's divisive plans back fire
• Australia: Venezuelan diplomat describes support for Nauru
• Venezuela: Join the next solidarity brigade
• Venezuela: Co-management in a sea of capitalism
• Venezuela's pro-people transformation continues
• Venezuela: Station not closed, but attempting to dodge law
• Peru: Uncontacted tribes flee to Brazil
• Le Monde | Expensive Uranium
• Venezuela Tries to Create Its Own Kind of Socialism
• Segregation: The American Experience
• This Business of a US-India Nuclear Deal J. Sri Raman says, "In his farewell address on January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered the prophetic warning: 'In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.'"
• Hugo Chavez Le Monde diplomatique's Ignacio Ramonet examines the reasons behind the ferocity and the multiplicity of the hate campaigns directed against Venezuela's president.
• Senator Takes Aim at Illegal Logging in Asia
• Iranian Politics Are Not Quite as Seen on TV Geoffrey Millard writes for Truthout, "To categorize Iranian attitudes towards America as either pro- or anti- is an oversimplification."
• Sam Ferguson | Argentine "Dirty War" Trial Focuses on Priest
• Grab Cuba's Outstretched Hand Luc de Barochez, writing for the generally politically conservative and economically neo-liberal Le Figaro, advocates a new US policy for Cuba.
• UN Approves Peacekeepers for Darfur
• Brazil, Alarmed, Reconsiders Policy on Climate Change
• July
• German Official Warns US Arms for Gulf Could Set Off "Powder Keg"
• Pierre Haski | Iraq 1 Saudi Arabia 0
• J. Sri Raman | The Unending War: Watching a Chinese Opera
• Rare Congo Gorillas Killed "As Act of Sabotage"
• China Moves to Change Damaged Global Image
• US Set to Offer Huge Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia
• Travelers Face Greater Use of Personal Data
• Court Orders Russia to Pay Damages in Chechnya Killings
• Dozens of Afghan Civilians Die in Air Raids
• Death Throes Renaud Dely in Liberation, Le Monde's Benoit Hopquin and Stephane Mandard inquire: Is the Tour de France an athletic event or a soap opera?
• Alabama Company Is Exonerated in Murders at Colombian Mine
• Strike by US in Pakistan Is an Option, Officials Say
• J. Sri Raman | Army Rule Disguised as "Democracy"
• Pierre Haski | Fleeing Darfur to Die in Sinai
• Le Monde | Happy Ending in Libya
• Death Toll Rises in Southern Europe's Heat Wave
• A 21st Century Catastrophe Michael McCarthy of The Independent UK writes: "Flood-ravaged Britain is suffering from a wholly new type of civil emergency, it is clear today: a disaster caused by 21st-century weather."
• Human Rights Watch Demands Mexico Probe
• Japan's Quake Sends Tremors Across Nuclear Industry
• Sam Ferguson | Argentina's "Dirty War" Pardon Overturned
• The French Connections "According to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, French broadband connections are, on average, more than three times as fast as ours. Japanese connections are a dozen times faster. Oh, and access is much cheaper in both countries than it is here," writes Paul Krugman of The New York Times.
• Le Monde | Erdogan's Victory
• David Bacon | Blood on the Palms
• Pakistan: Terrorism's Last Domino
• A Godsend for Darfur, or a Curse?
• British Army Chief Says UK Doesn't Have Enough Soldiers
• India Names First Female President
• Australia Could Become US Nuclear Waste Dump
• Indonesian Workers Fight Nike Despite Mass Dismissal Fears
• Sam Ferguson | Argentina's "Dirty War" Trials Continue, Families Testify
• Deadly Violence Spreads in Pakistan
• John Vidal | We Just Can't Get Enough John Vidal for The Guardian UK writes about the environmental devastation being wrought on China and asks if China is really the one to blame for the cheap goods that they are producing for Western countries.
• J. Sri Raman | From Tiananmen to Inner Mongolia: China's Musical Challenge
• Bush Threatens Attacks in Pakistan
• EU Environment Chief Wants to Put a Price on Water
• Argentina: Where Jobless Run Factories
• Biofuel Demand Leads Mexico to Set Rules on GMO Corn
• Bush Aides See Failure in Fight With Al Qaeda in Pakistan
• North Korea Shuts Down Known Nuclear Facilities
• Australia: Greenhouse solutions
• Australia: GM push vilifies organics
• Australia: Federal bill threatens GM moratoriums
• Australia: Victoria to lift GM ban?
• West Papua: Military threatens to crush ‘separatists’
• West Papua: Report highlights human rights abuse
• East Timor: Uncertainty over future government
• Scotland: Review rejects key Lockerbie ‘evidence’
• Britain: ‘The natural party of business’
• Australia: Venezuelan embassy hosts solidarity discussion
• Venezuela: Real rights and recognition replace racism
• Police, Protesters Clash in Oaxaca
• Mexican Migrants Carry HIV Home
• Pakistan Truce Appears Defunct
• Japan Shuts Units at Top Nuclear Plant After Quake
• Russia Steps Back From Key Arms Treaty
• J. Sri Raman | The Meaning of Lal Masjid
• Iran Agrees to UN Nuclear Inspection
• Sam Ferguson | Argentina's "Dirty War" Trials Continue
• Palm Oil Firms Burning Indonesian Forests
• How Bush's AIDS Program Is Failing Africans
• J. Sri Raman | Walls: Scaled and Unscaled
• Marie Cocco | While Europeans Holiday, Americans Toil
• Canada Flexes Its Muscles in Scramble for the Arctic
• Robert Scheer | Bush's Pakistan Paradox
• US Sends Third Aircraft Carrier to Gulf RTE Ireland reports that a third US aircraft carrier is being sent to the Gulf.
• EU Mediterranean States Call for Middle East Peace Conference
• As War Enters Classrooms, Fear Grips Afghans
• Argentina's Struggle to Restore the Rule of Law
• US Aborted Raid on Qaeda Chiefs in Pakistan in '05
• Afghan Civilians Caught in Crossfire
• Alabama Coal Company Accused of Bankrolling Colombia's Killer Right-Wing Militias
• New Iran Regime-Change Think Tank Opens in DC
• Afghanistan: US and NATO Killed More Civilians Than Taliban
• In London's Financial World, Carbon Trading Is the New Big Thing
• Window Opens on Holocaust in Ukraine
• By the Grace of Bush Le Monde's editorialist chooses to focus on how unequally the rain of Bush's mercy falls ...
• J. Sri Raman | What USS Nimitz Brings in Its Wake
• Mosque Leader Foresees End of Siege
• Segolene Allemandou | Mexicans Play the Border-Crossing Game
• 750,000 a Year Killed by Chinese Pollution
• Asia-Pacific Countries See Effects of Climate Change on Health, Brace for More
• Europeans See US as Threat to Peace
• Eric Le Boucher | Some Not-So-Invisible Hands
• Colombian Trade Unionists Assassinated by Paramilitaries Paid by American Companies
• Western Consumption May Cause Famines
• J. Sri Raman | Making Buddha and Confucius Meet
• June
• Sue Branford and Jan Rocha | Death of the Amazon
• Metalworkers Continue Massive Anti-FTA Strike
• UK Terror Threat "Critical" as Glasgow Attacked
• "Up to 80 Civilians Dead" After US Air Strikes in Afghanistan
• June
• Kosovo Le Monde Diplomatique's Ignacio Ramonet forcefully argues against President Bush's suggestion that Kosovo unilaterally declare its independence.
• Blockades up as aboriginal day of action begins
• Jean-Marcel Bouguereau | A Beautiful Stage, but Few Results
• Cuba: 'Long live Vilma!'
• Cuba: Vilma Espin - revolutionary hero
• Bolivia: The clash of autonomies
• Socialists debate Venezuela's revolution
• South Africa: ANC government refuses strikers' demands
• Pakistan: Fifteen days in jail
• Indonesian activists harassed by military, police
• China: Riots win concessions
• China: E-waste and environmental colonialism
• Aceh's peace threatened by untreated trauma
• Australia: 'War games a threat to the region'
• Australia: Queensland campaign for Indigenous rights to continue
• Australia: Howard's NT takeover: Protecting kids or attacking land rights? Prime Minister John Howard announced on June 21 a plan to take control of some 60 Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, supposedly to tackle a child sex abuse crisis in those communities. It is a plan that severely limits and in some instances eradicates the democratic and land rights of all Aboriginal people in remote NT communities.
• Murdoch's Dealings in China: It's Business, and It's Personal
• J. Sri Raman | Of Peace, China and P-5
• Pierre Haski | Europe Escapes the Impasse Without Recovering Its Elan
• Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Causing Alarm
• Lebanon's Agony
• US House Votes to Deny All Aid to Saudi Arabia
• China Says Exports Fuel Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Bad News for the Naysayers: The European Constitution Stirs Again
• Oxfam Suggests Benefit in Africa if US Cuts Cotton Subsidies
• J. Sri Raman | "Green" Signals From Red China
• World Still Failing Sub-Saharan Africa
• Working Around the Clock
• 'Australia: No pulp mill!'
• Australia: Police officer faces court over Mulrunji’s death
• Australia: Torture ship visits Sydney
• Australia: Socialist Alliance stands up to police state laws
• West Papua: Papuans greet UN envoy with rallies, demands
• Russia: Dockers' leader stabbed
• Malaysia: Socialists hold ninth congress
• Vietnam: Agent Orange victims go to court in the US
• Indonesia: Climate change hits poor
• Indonesia: 'The people want fundamental change'
• Sri Lanka: War and repression continue
• Pakistan: Protest against Farooq Tariq's detention
• Pakistan: US double face on media freedom and democracy
• South Africa: Sackings fuel national strike, protests
• Paraguay: Former bishop to run for presidency
• Nationalisations push Venezuela further toward socialism
• Venezuela: Destabilisation plot fails
• The battle for Bolivia’s future
• Tom Engelhardt | The Most Dangerous Dance
• With Open Eyes Laurent Joffrin congratulates the French Left on the serious resistance it put up to Sarkozy's widely-predicted "blue wave" in last weekend's French legislative elections, but cautions the Left to abandon old reflexes and devise new visions, given the Right's cultural triumph and Sarkozy's ideological mutability.
• Sarkozy's Party Suffers Shocking Setback at Polls
• Studies Find DNA Damage From Anti-Coca Herbicide
• Lead Exposure in Peru Raises Concern
• In Ethiopian Desert, Fear and Cries of Army Brutality
• G-8 in Genoa: a Policeman's Confession
• Appeal for the release of Farooq Tariq
• The Threat to al-Jazeera
• Le Monde | A French Success
• Roger Cohen | The Cry of the Disappeared
• DOJ to Investigate UK Arms Company Payments to Saudi Prince
• Samarra Shrine Attack May Have Been Inside Job
• Pierre Haski | 1,200 Billion Dollars to Arm the Planet
• Cheney's Iran-Arms-to-Taliban Gambit Rebuffed
• Venezuela: US fears spread of Chavez example
• Freedom of expression in Venezuela today 'has no precedent'
• Chavez calls for ALBA's expansion
• People march to support new channel in Venezuela
• US attack on Venezuela defeated at OAS
• Venezuela: students mobilise to defend the revolution
• South Africa: Striking public servants defy threats
• Iranian union leader given jail sentence
• China announces climate-change `action plan'
• China: Protest halts chemical plant
• China: 55,000 commemorate Tiananmen massacre
• Indonesia: NGOs say Sutiyoso should have been arrested
• Aceh: GAM initiates new party
• Cuba's superior health system
• Australian ‘aid’ vs Cuban internationalism
• Australia: Socialist Alliance challenge to Rudd in Griffith
• Australia: Activists focus on global warming and workers' rights campaigns
• Australia: No polluting pulp mill!
• East Timorese socialists set out campaign platform
• East Timor: Deaths mark election campaign’s start
• G8 on track for 5 million deaths
• Industrial Logging Gobbling Up Africa's Tropical Forests
• Globalization Protesters Riot in Rome
• The Real Cost of Offshoring
• Dilip Hiro | Nuclear Weapons Programs Are About Regime Survival
• Plan Colombia: Washington Stashes Coca Under the Carpet
• The Bandar Cover-Up: Who Knew What, and When?
• CIA Agents Go on Trial in Italy Before Bush Visit
• The Real Cost of Offshoring
• Pakistan: The Rule of the Taliban
• Will Royal Dutch Shell Turn B.C. into Nigeria North? Video draws attention to the takeover this month of Shell Canada by Royal Dutch Shell and its implications for a northern BC First Nation.
• Katrina vanden Heuvel | Bush in "Fantasyland"
• Massacres and Paramilitary Land Seizures Behind the Biofuel Revolution
• Daryl Hannah Joins Amazon Protesters Taking On Oil Giant
• G-8 Vows Greenhouse Gas Curbs; US Escapes Targets
• New Zealand: Woman dead after 'Murder Energy' cut electricity
• Australia: Toyota’s way? Sack unionists
• Australia: Toyota’s way? Sack unionists
• Australia: Pub wins the right to ban women, straights
• Australia: FoE calls for big boost in climate change aid
• Australia: Eyewitnesses to Venezuelan people's power
• Australia: Venezuelan revolutionary to attend Melbourne international forum
• Corporate media outraged: Venezuela expands free speech
• Leading British voices support Venezuela's RCTV decision
• Britain: Blair proposes new terrorism laws
• Ireland: Status quo prevails after elections
• Northern Ireland: Republican activists arrested
• Lebanon: Refugee camp devastated by army assault
• Russia: Police violence against queer activists
• Aid Workers Warn Afghanistan Bloodshed Is Spreading
• Europe Strikes at Chemical Toxicity
• Massacres and Paramilitary Land Seizures Behind the Biofuel Revolution
• G8: Legislators Detail Hopes for a Climate Accord
• Thunder? It's the Sound of Greenland Melting
• Why Cuba Is Exporting Health Care to the US
• Logging Threatens Indonesia's Forests
• Pierre Rousselin | Lebanon: All Kinds of Interference
• Putin Warns on US Missiles in Europe
• Too Late for "Luxury" of Kyoto Delay, Warns Blair
• Dry Winter Setting Off Forest Fires in Canada
• Wilkerson: Officials Tried to Reverse China Policy
• Asked to Serve Again, a Soldier Goes Down Fighting
• J. Sri Raman | The Importance of Saving Binayak Sen
• US Warship Bombs Islamic Militants' Base in Somalia
• Darfur Refugees Flee in 125-Mile Trek
• Workers stage massive strike in South Africa An estimated one million angry teachers, nurses and other public sector workers took to the streets across South Africa on Friday, staging the biggest strike since the fall of apartheid in 1994.
• Million Text Messages Block Chemical Plant
• Brenda Peterson | Welcoming the Whales
• Michael Hirsh | Icy G8 Meeting for US, Russia
• May
• Ignacio Ramonet | French Populism
• Russia: G8 Must Focus on Energy, Not Just Economy
• Putin: US Has Triggered New Arms Race
• Palm Oil Puts Squeeze on Endangered Orangutan
• India to Shun G8 Demands on Gas Emissions
• J. Sri Raman | A Nuclear Threat From the Tigers?
• East Timorese parties prepare for June 30 vote
• Australia: Corporate greed drives water crisis The deepening of Australia’s drought- and global-warming-driven water crisis has thrown into sharp relief the historical and current inadequacy of the Liberal-Labor political establishment to put the needs of working people before those of big business.
• Australia: Movement essential to fight climate change
• Australia: Sydney City Council’s plan to limit free speech
• Australia: Indigenous owners serve eviction notice
• Aceh: Women activists declare new political party
• Pakistan: Broad solidarity gathering supports advocates' movement
• India: MP sentenced to life for 'kidnapping' activist
• Nigerian unions call for national stay-away
• Norway: Support for Western Sahara
• Germany: Left party makes breakthrough in the west
• New left newspaper launched in Switzerland
• Protest over banning of Basque candidates
• Britain: 'B-52 Two' not guilty
• Britain: 'Two cheeks of the same arse'
• Fidel Castro criticises British military spending
• Why wealthy, cigar-chomping Republicans hate Mike Moore (and Cuba)
• Bolivia: ‘We want a capitalism with a big state presence’
• Venezuela: The case of RCTV and freedom of speech
• Communal power versus capitalism in Venezuela Led by the country’s socialist president, Hugo Chavez, the revolution is sending shockwaves through the corporate elite both within Venezuela and internationally. The people are waging a struggle to gain sovereignty over the country’s natural resources in order to rebuild the nation along pro-people lines.
• The "Bertie" Model
• Desperate Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex Trade in Syria
• US Show of Force in Gulf "Greatly Alarming"
• Refugees Face Uncertain Life in Lebanon
• Japan Eyes Households in Struggle to Cut Greenhouse Emissions
• CIA Warned of Risks of War in the Mideast
• Venuzuela's Co-op Boom
• Blowback in Lebanon The Guardian (UK)
• Fierce gunfire in Lebanese camp BBC
• The question: Why is Lebanon so unstable? The Guardian (UK)
• Income Inequalities Harm the Environment
• Africa Feels the Warming It Didn't Cause
• Darfur and Chad in Crisis Appeal
• Blair Plans Five New Nuclear Power Plants
• Kelpie Wilson | Kookaburra in the Coal Mine
• Nine US Warships Enter Gulf in Show of Force
• Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran
• Ecuador Seeks Aid Not to Exploit Amazon Oil
• Australia: Victoria Police slammed for G20 behaviour
• Australia: Hicks home, but Lady Justice sails off
• Australia: Peace convergence to challenge war games
• Spanish right moves to exploit end of ETA ceasefire
• Canada: Barrick served eviction notice
• Brazil: Pope angers Brazilian Indians
• Venezuela: Building popular power
• South Africa: The problem of paying for water
• Zimbabwe: Police bash vendors and arrest youth
• The mass movement in Pakistan - from nowhere to everywhere
• China: Foreign capital controls three-quarters of industry
• Malaysia: Women workers challenge sackings
• Sri Lanka: ‘Terror laws used to criminalise supporters of self-determination’
• Cuba and freedoms
• Indonesian military attacks leftist party
• New Directions in France?
• Will Bunch | "Buying the War," Part II - Now It's Iran
• Congo Militia Threaten to Kill Rare Gorillas
• "Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil"
• Don't let a fringe group reignite tension among Lebanese and Palestinians The Daily Star (Lebanon)
• New fight rips at a fragile Lebanon Christian Science Monitor
• Dozens Slain as Lebanese Army Fights Islamists The New York Times
• Large blast hits Lebanese capital
• Dozens Killed in Lebanese Fighting
• Murder of Santiago Rafael Cruz - one month into the campaign
• The strike is over, but the struggle for justice continues
• Chiquita sacks workers who reported poisoning
• Kuwait unhooks dinar from dollar, signalling possible trend
• Is "NAFTA Super Autobahn" the Road to Hell?
• Venezuela Lets Councils Bloom; Critics Say Chávez Backs Local Bodies to Boost Central Control
• Alain Gresh | Countdown Iran
• The Unanimous Decision by Fidel Castro
• Some Supposedly Green Products Are Not
• Scientists Urge Half of Canada's Forests Be Protected
• J. Sri Raman | Trojan horse as a South Asian Theme
• Australia: More money for `terrorism'
• Christmas Island: Australia's Guantanamo?
• Australia: Protests planned for Talisman Sabre '07
• Venezuela: Battle for control of economy continues
• Venezuela's popular health care system makes gains
• Protect Canada's boreal forest, scientists urge 1,500 sign letter urging that half be protected, up from 10 percent now
• EU: Emissions trading — leaky caps and dirty development
• Germany: ‘Pre-emptive’ raids target G8 protesters
• Vietnam: US called to account over Agent Orange
• Scotland: SNP minority government likely
• Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein in government
• Afghanistan: US-NATO attacks kill 51 villagers
• East Timor: Socialist responds to presidential election
• East Timor: Canberra’s preferred candidate wins election
• Indonesian party presses ahead despite intimidation
• Pakistan left leader Farooq Tariq released
• More from Fidel on ethanol
• Mouvements | One Week Later
• 27 Killed, Dozens Wounded as Pakistan's Crisis Erupts
• David Bacon | AfroColombians Oppose Free Trade Agreement
• Civilian Deaths Undermine War on Taliban
• Gagging Order as Two Are Jailed for Leaking Blair-Bush Memo
• More US Troops Sent to Afghanistan
• Dilip Hiro | Unholy Alliance
• US-Led Raid Kills 40 Civilians in Afghanistan
• Le Monde | The Russia-Europe Chill
• Putin Is Said to Compare US Policies to Third Reich
• Blair Announces His Resignation
• Flash Floods - An Ominous Sign
• David Swanson | Anti-US Uproar Sweeps Italy
• J. Sri Raman | Moriarty's Departure and Nepal's Democracy
• US Commander Apologizes for Massacre
• Turkey: Behind the victory against prison torture
• Indonesia: Thousands rally on May Day
• Crunch comes in French presidential election
• Cairo conference calls for resistance to imperialism
• Protesters clash with police in Macau
• Australia: Gold Coast socialists select candidates
• Pakistan socialist arrested
• Russia: Exit Yeltsin
• Venezuela: Socialism from below
• Greening Venezuela’s revolution
• Venezuela takes on oil multinationals
• Report on Child Deaths Finds Some Hope in Poorest Nations
• Mideast Conflict Slows Dead Sea Rescue
• China Orders Resettlement of 250,000 Tibetans
• France's First Reactions
• French Voters Pick Sarkozy to Be President; Turnout High
• Sarkozy wins French presidential elections: exit polls By Aude Lagorce
• Michael T. Klare | Warships, Warships Everywhere, and Many a Bomb to Drop
• Oil Company Accused of Dumping Waste in Amazon
• Catherine Simon | Rich Old Country Seeking Immigrants
• Laurent Joffrin | Restoration
• Robert Koehler | "The Christian Taliban Is Running the Department of Defense"
• China's Labor Law Raises US Concerns
• Karzai Says Civilian Toll Is No Longer Acceptable
• Conscientious Objection to Female Genital Mutilation in Mali
• Le Monde | Taliban Are Back
• Chávez Takes Over Foreign-Controlled Oil Projects in Venezuela
• Colombia labor killings under U.S Democrat scrutiny By Patrick Markey (Reuters/Alternet)
• Venezuela Pulls Control From Big Oil
• April
• Gore Calls Canada Climate Plan a "Fraud"
• Around the World, Protesters Call for Action on Darfur
• Le Monde | Polish Honor
• Iran to Join US at Conference on Iraq
• Economic Misinformation Plays Major Role in French Election
• Putin Suspends Treaty in Response to US Missile Defense Plan
• Thousands Flee as Shelling by Ethiopian Tanks Kills Hundreds of Civilians in Somali Capital
• Attacks Spark Fears of Taliban Defeating NATO
• NATO's Mixed Messages on Afghanistan's Opium Crop
• J. Sri Raman | Nepal's Turbulent Year of Transition
• Ecuador Seeks Compensation to Leave Amazon Oil Undisturbed
• China Could Overtake US as Biggest Emissions Culprit by November
• 74 Dead in Attack on Ethiopian Oil Field
• Blair's 10-Year Leadership to End "Within Weeks"
• French Election Results and Analysis: Why Sarkozy Is Dangerous by Doug Ireland
• J. Sri Raman | Betraying "Democracy" in Burma
• The Islamic Threat to Europe: By the Numbers
• Chávez arms community groups as he anticipates US invasion Telegraph, UK
• US Pushes Missile Defense Plan
• Russian "Paranoia" Le Figaro editorialists Pierre Rousselin and Nicolas Barre examine examples of Russia's hardening domestic and international policies, while Perry Andersen provides the background to the Putin regime's apparently inexhaustible domestic popularity.
• Payoffs to Colombian Terrorists by US Corporations Scrutinized
• Thousands of Workers From US-Run Mine in Indonesia Protest
• The Middle East's Dr. Strangeloves
• AIDS Ravages Poor Children Needlessly
• Russia to Build Tunnel-- Rail, Highways and Pipelines-- to Alaska
• Payoffs to Colombian Terrorists Scrutinized
• Greenpeace Says China Guilty in Illegal Logging
• September 11, 2001: The French Knew Much About It Le Monde has obtained 328 pages of the French secret services' Osama bin Laden file. The huge leak confirms some information about what was known before September 11 and raises a few questions about intelligence service operations.
• Afghanistan: Report: Marine Killing Spree Unjustified
• Ecuador Heads for Socialist Reform of Constitution
• Beijing Laborers Dying in Race for Olympic Deadline
• Afghanistan: Military Forces Journalists to Delete Images of Civilian Killings
• European Nations Pile Pressure on Wolfowitz
• Afghanistan: Marines Used "Excessive Force" in Afghan Civilian Deaths
• Kasparov Freed after Arrest at anti-Putin Rally
• Environmental Protesters Killed in Uganda
• The Gigaproject Imports People: 24 Month "Guest Labourers" from China in the Tarsands
• Canadian water exports part of Canada, U.S., Mexico talks Kelly Patterson, CanWest News Service
• 'I am plotting a new Russian revolution' The Guardian (UK)
• Le Monde | Al-Qaeda in Algiers
• J. Sri Raman | Politics of No Return in Pakistan, Bangladesh
• Behzad Yaghmaian | Bonded at Birth
• New Dam Threatens People and Environment in Myanmar
• Vast Congo Rainforests Sold for "a Few Bags of Sugar"
• The Taliban Are Conducting a Psychological War
• Don't Buy Products From Illegal Logging, Indonesia Says
• J. Sri Raman | Crusades Against Democracy in South Asia
• Noam Chomsky | What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
• The Secret War Against Iran
• Anguish on Wall Street as European Stock Markets Push US Off Pole Position
• Official: Possible War Crimes in Somalia
• US Steps Up Missile System Push in Eastern Europe
• Pope Says Rich Nations "Plundered" Third World
• Tug of War Over China's New Labor Law Brendan Smith, Tim Costello and Jeremy Brecher
• British Military Personnel Leave Iran
• A message from revolutionary youth in Venezuela
• Venezuela replaces 45 million light bulbs
• Venezuela: New stage in land reform
• Venezuela: Chavez launches campaign to form party
• Ecuador: Correa victorious in confrontation with right
• Zimbabwe’s two dictatorships -- Munyaradzi Gwisai
• Mexico: Subcomandante Marcos - Capitalism’s ‘new war of conquest’
• Bolivian gas nationalisation under threat
• Western Sahara: The Moroccan magic formula
• East Timor: Socialist campaign mobilises districts
• Hong Kong: Beijing-anointed candidate challenged
• India: West Bengal killings denounced
• Indonesia: Left party, historians under attack
• Iran: Washington escalates financial war
• Iran: Washington's next nuclear target?
• Pakistan's democracy movement defies repression
• Pakistan: 'A victory for democratic forces'
• Philippines: Unions versus globalisation
• Fiji: unions vote to strike
• Vatican: Theologian to Pope: 'No'
• Australia: `Free speech' not so free
• Australia: Corn gone wrong
• Australia: Poverty report: more people 'dropping off the edge'
• Australia: Invite Chavez, not Bush
• US Agents Visit Ethiopian Secret Jails
• Global Union for Boeing Workers
• Iran Says British Captives to Be Freed
• EU Slams United States, Australia on Climate Change
• March
• Autoworkers Occupy Toronto Plant Battle over severance pay
• Helicopter Shot Down as Battles Engulf Mogadishu
• Jean-Marcel Bouguereau | Europe No Longer Makes People Dream
• China protesters block rail lines BBC
• India: 'Communist' West Bengal Government in Crisis GLW
• Afghans Dream of Exile Once Again
• Antimissiles: Why Europe Resists
• Zimbabwe: Opposition Leaders Held as They Try to Leave Country
• Saudi Arabia Routinely Frees Detainees
• Chad and Sudan Indulge in a Vicarious War Through Rebels
• Why Oaxaca Matters by James Cooke
• Diplomats Reach Agreement on Iran Sanctions
• Labor and the Australian oligarchy
• Australia: Tonight on TV, again: The Biggest Hypocrite
• Australia: 'Violent ferals' stand for parliament
• Venezuela: ‘A festival of the oppressed’
• Bolivia: Morales calls for environmental justice
• Scottish socialists to ‘build a nationwide resistance’
• China: Washington criticises Chinese military spending
• Iran: CIA funds terrorist operations
• Indonesia: Militia attack another left conference
• Tariq Ali: The case for withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Taiwan's president changes stance on independence
• Philippines: Left unity challenges Arroyo regime
• Guinea: General strike wins concessions
• East Timor: Pre-election tension after killings
• Britain Proposes Bold Environmental Legislation That Could Pave Way for Post-Kyoto Pact
• Pakistan Under American Pressure
• Heated Words Show No US-Iran Thaw
• Angry Crowds Protest Bush During Latin American Tour
• J. Sri Raman | Train Tragedy Fails to Help Anti-Terror Cause
• Noam Chomsky | A Predator Becomes More Dangerous When Wounded
• Clashes Mar Bush's Latin America Tour
• Ray McGovern | There's Still Time to Rethink Iran
• February
• Australia: Power industry unions push for OHS control
• Australia: Forest activists beat ban on ‘walk-in’
• Australia: Police attempt to silence Cheney protesters
• Australia: Corporate greed drives water crisis
• Zimbabwe: Fighting spirit back!
• West Papua - calling it a betrayal would be too generous
• Profits (and poverty) rise in EU
• ElBaradei warns against Iran enrichment 'hype'
• El Salvador's 'year of peace'?
• Aceh: New forms of foreign domination developing
• Philippines: Death squads escalate their dirty work
• Marxism and the Venezuelan revolution
• Hersh: US Developing Contingency Plan to Bomb Iran
• Canada's High Court Strikes Down Indefinite Detention
• Chomsky on Iran, Iraq, and the Rest of the World
• US Strike Would Not Destroy Iran Nuclear Sites
• J. Sri Raman | After Terror on Train, Green Signal for Peace?
• Australia Pulls Plug on Old Bulbs
• Europeans Agree to Cut Emissions Sharply If US and Others Follow Suit
• Deniz Yeter | US Baiting Iran Into First Strike
• Australia: Greens' coal phase-out call provokes corporate outrage
• Australia: New US spy facility to be built in WA
• Australia: The tyranny of facts: Where Costello went wrong on Chavez
• Editorial: Break the Australia-US alliance!
• Venezuela's revolution - giving power to the poor ``We, and millions of people around the world ... believe another world is possible, a world free from war, poverty and hunger. Here in Venezuela the [government of socialist President Hugo Chavez] along with the majority of the people in our country are fighting hard to build this new world, despite the attempts of the old elite and the US government to prevent us from succeeding.''
• Ecuador to vote on Constituent Assembly
• Cuba's green revolution: threat of a good example
• CANADA: Students protest tuition fees
• IRAN: US pushes for tougher sanctions
• European left discusses unity
• EAST TIMOR: Balibo inquest a damning indictment of `Jakarta lobby'
• Solomon Islands government calls for RAMSI exit plan
• INDONESIA: Dita Sari: `The movements need a political breakthrough'
• Zimbabwe's new rise of class struggle
• Taliban Insurgents Capture District in Afghanistan
• US "Iran Attack Plans" Revealed
• Gareth Porter | Rove Said to Have Received 2003 Iranian Proposal
• CIA Sounded Out Italy About "Renditions" in 2001
• Not in Our Name: Bid to Stop Trident
• Velayati: We Only Want Security
• Skepticism Over Iraq Haunts US Iran Policy
• Bush Backs Away From Claim on Iran
• Ex-Aide Says Rice Misled US Congress on Iran
• EU Report Says Some Colluded With CIA
• Bush Contradicts Sunday's Briefing on Iranian Weapons
• Gareth Porter | US Briefing on Iran Discredits the Official Line
• Ray McGovern | Wake Up! The Next War Is Coming
• North Korea Agrees to Nuclear Disarmament
• Joint Chiefs Chairman Sees No Evidence of Meddling by Iran's Regime
• Colonel Ann Wright (Retired) | An Appeal to Conscience to Those Who Would Bomb Iran
• Iran Tempted to Suspend Nuclear Activity; US Could Provoke War
• US Sending Third Carrier Strike Group to Persian Gulf
• US Able to Strike in the Spring
• Putin: US Policies Create Arms Race
• Pentagon to Extend Troops in Afghanistan
• Pierre Rousselin | The Saudi Game
• A New Fast Track for Unfair Trade
• Le Monde | Human Rights
• US to Get Africa Command Center
• Australia: Socialist Alliance: 'Stand up for your rights'
• Australia: Rally for Hicks
• Australia: Chain up Cheney!
• Iran: Pentagon plans full-scale war
• Turkey: 'Death fast' ends in victory
• Return of Somalia's warlords
• Bangladesh: Electoral commissioners quit after court ruling
• Sinn Fein supports Northern Ireland police force
• British public service workers launch massive strike
• Guinea: Strike ends, more than 90 dead
• Haiti: Cite Soleil under constant attack
• Bolivia: Morales adviser faces right-wing attacks
• Venezuela brigade: a unique experience
• Venezuela: Beginnings of a public health revolution
• Venezuela: Socialism makes a comeback Venezuela: Nobody can quite believe their eyes and ears. More than 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has made it abundantly clear that his country is embarked on a socialist revolution.
• Australia: Inspiring new film on revolutionary Venezuela
• Child Soldiers Are a Time Bomb
• J. Sri Raman | New Nepal Versus Old Order
• Alain Faujas | Must Business Be Ecological?
• Thousands March Over Tortilla Crisis
• The Fate of Kosovo Le Monde examines the latest UN report on the fate of Kosovo.
• US Takes Over NATO in Afghanistan
• Robert Parry | Bush Is Hiding the Ball on Iran
• Justifications for Attacking Iran on Shaky Ground
• Pentagon Alters Casualty Figures
• Chavez and Venezuela
• Anti-Whaling Ships Say They Have Been Made Pirates
• Steve Hammons | Will Bush, Cheney Attack Iran? When and Why?
• Robert Parry | Iran Clock Is Ticking
• January
• Iranians Worry About a Possible American Attack
• Europe Resists US Push to Curb Iran Ties
• Aboriginal victory: Palm Island killer cop charged
• Chavez invited to Australia
• Australia: Howard's water crisis plan
• Canadian students fight tuition fee hikes
• Sri Lanka's war on Tamils escalates
• Lebanon: Beirut paralysed by general strike
• El Salvador: FMLN hosts regional left parties forum
• China: CP official defends new capitalists' `original sin'
• Venezuela - an ecologically sustainable revolution?
• Venezuela spreads international solidarity
• Venezuela: Pioneering the new socialism of the 21st century
• Bolivia's Morales: 'This little Indian won't be leaving office'
• Indonesia's new radical party promises year of 'all-out' campaigning
• Economic Policy Changes With New Latin American Leaders
• Jean-Marcel Bouguereau | The Situation in Lebanon: Behind by a Conflict
• US Air Raids in Somalia May Be Inefficient, Harmful
• Mandela Calls for Gandhi's Non-Violence Approach
• Hagel Interview More Anti-War Than Most Dems
• J. Sri Raman | Debris of Super-Power Pride Endangers Peace in Space
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• Scott Ritter | Stop the Iran War Before It Starts
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