The AOL-Time Warner transaction creates a historic global media monopoly with a combined subscriber base of more than 100 million and gives the corporation an unprecedented control over what their customers see, hear and read. But the surprise in the deal is that AOL also now controls much of future Internet access Media Didn't Report Key Issues of Deal AOL Could Monopolize Future of the Internet Starting the Millennium on the Wrong Foot Norman Solomon: The Divine Rights of Media Monarchs

Chile Prepares to Aid Pinochet's Flight From Prosecutors
Hospital jet will spirit dicator past nations wanting to make arrests

Village Voice and Alt News Chain Sold
Sets stage for a new round of consolidation in alt newspapers

Conservative Think Tanks Spreading Their Ideas Like Wildfire
Right has well-organized, well-funded machine to push their agenda

Last fall, St. Martin's Press announced it was about to publish a high-profile biography of George W. Bush that included allegations of cocaine use. The book was recalled and burned after it was publicized that the author had once spent time in prison. Shouldn't the public be allowed to judge this well-sourced book on its own merits?

Fish such as this tilapia may be someday used in transgenic fish farming, says researcher Bill Muir (Photo: Tom Campbell)

Enviros Press Gore Over Oil Connections
Sierra Club, others pressure VP over link to company drilling on Amazon U'wa tribe land

Genetically Modified Fish Could Wipe Out Natural Species
Larger, but inferior males would quickly dominate wild fish varieties

TB Epidemic Threatens Even Superpower Nations
1 out of 6 cases are most dangerous active form

U.S. MARKS NEW YEAR WITH YOUTH EXECUTIONS Executed this month for murders that he committed at 17, Douglas Christopher Thomas was the first of many that will die for crimes committed as kids, giving the U.S. the rare distinction of taking a harder line than Afghanistan. Even China, which runs the world's busiest execution industry, has renounced capital punishment for those under 18 Why Are We Alone In Executing Kids? The Last Words of Douglas Christopher Thomas

Whistleblower Nikitin exposed coverup of Russian nuke sub accidents, careless treatment of radioactive waste

Russian Nuke Whistleblower Acquitted
Aleksandr Nikitin charged with 1995 espionage for revealing nuke sub accidents

Nervous Beijing Tightens Controls on Internet
New set of laws restrict discussion of "state secret," which could mean almost anything

Y2K Terrorism Scare Was Unjustified
Review of government data shows major international threat from Latin America, not Middle East

Russia Using Landmines in Chechnya
Anti-civilian weapon was also used in Kosovo War

Chevron, Other Oil Giants Again Accused of Nigeria Abuses
Widespread environmental damage, exploitation of ethnic differences

Dr. Sally Rice/U of Alberta leads a Canadian project to save a disappearing Native language by an immersion school program

Monsanto Hit by Lawsuit
Multi-million dollar suit claims GM products rushed to market without proper tests

GM Soybeans Smuggled Into Banned Country
Poor Brazilian farmers hoping for higher yields have polluted transgenic-free crop

Tons of Carbon Dioxide Stored in Subtropical Oceans
Much of it human-caused atmospheric pollution

Canadian Project to Save Dying Native Language
English will be second language in regional Alberta schools to revitalize endangered Chipewyan

Anti-WTO Alliance Targets China
Less likely to reform China as to further deform WTO

"Parallex Project" Will Shift Nuke Waste Problem to Public
U.S. proposes creating international industry for disposal

CATO Institute Welcomes Turn of Century: 1899
Wacky claims from right-wing thinktank that commerce solved most human woes

Industry Peddles Myth That 'Frankenfoods' Will Solve Hunger
The cause of hunger is not a scarcity of food

Ben & Jerry's Melting Corporate Responsibility
Corporation may soon be sold to highest bidder

Iowa Was Fun, But There's More to Come
Sticking to Bush's Message of the Day
What Do You Do When The Money Leaves?
Unable to Form Complete Sentences
Getting Sued for Speaking Out
The Terrorist Boomlet
How the Justice System Fights Justice
Bradley has no Zip, But Still Appeals
GOP Fuzzy on Family Values