Cheney, Energy Task Force Defies GAO

Misguided War Crimes Law Now Before Senate

Conflict Of Interest Scandal In "Ethical" Bush White House
Less than two months after inauguration and vow of ethical behavior

Bush Energy Plan Gives Foes Window Of Opportunity
Chance for an enviro coalition to come forward with a New (Green) Deal

Europeans Aren't Anti-American, Just Anti-Bush
In their eyes, Bush is illegitimate leader

FCC Tightens Censorship, Loosens Ownership Rules
Recent fines against broadcasters suggest new crackdown against "indecent" speech

Bush Foreign Policy: Speak Spanish, Put Foot in Mouth
When all else fails, blame global criticism on "anti-Americanism"

Why Bush is Winning
Neat solutions to concocted crises

A Monument to Distorted Priorities
WWII monument has higher priority than living veterans

The Company Bush Keeps
More lobbyists, industry moguls receive key Bush appointments

About 170 employees of DynCorp wage the War on Drugs in Colombia, under contract to the U.S. With no accountabilty to Congress, the private troops have been called mercenaries, often in league with Colombia's right-wing paramilitaries

Bush Proposal On Vieques Too Little Too Late
Puerto Ricans want Navy out, not just deadline to end bombing

Enviros Plot Strategy To Weaken Bush
Will make it harder for Bush to push through free trade agreements

CIA Gave $10 Million to Peru's Ex-Spymaster
Now faces trial for murder, arms and drug trafficking

Ambitious Plans, But Little Practical Action At UN AIDS Summit Wealthier countries absent as disease becomes Third World pandemic

The struggle for posession of the remains of a 9,000 year-old man has recharged a discredited controversy about prehistoric white settlers in North America

Mexico Banker Accused Of Drug, Money Deals Sues Reporters Chairman of Banamex, the second largest bank in Mexico

IN THIS ISSUE:   Advertisers force newspaper to back off from investigative series; the politics of crimes against humanity; Henry Kissinger, war criminal; Homer Simpson finds job security

Florida, seen at the top of this picture, receives more than half of all microbe-laden African dust that reaches the United States

Africa Dust Is Health Risk For Florida, Caribbean
Linked to increased asthma, lung disease in region

Biotech Industry Ignoring Ecosystem Risk, Says New Report
Vast uncertainty in estimating impacts of engineered species

Mexico's New Progressive Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda an impressive figure in Fox Administration

Shame, Fear Still Keep Secret 1999 E Timor Atrocities Rape victims, witnesses to massacres fear reprisals

Desperate N Koreans Seek Asylum In China Up to 300,000 N Koreans believed in hiding in China, Mongolia

Kissinger To Be Questioned Over Role In Chile Coup Judge seeks answers to old questions of U.S. involvement

Australian Natives Push For Sea Rights Next step in demand for recognition of homelands

Indonesia Fears New Era Of Repression Worries that Suharto's military may rise again

Anti-Gay Attacks Condoned In U.S. Schools, Report Finds Teachers often don't intervene from fear of being labelled "pro-gay"

Anti-Drug Herbicide Use In Colombia Causing Regional Problems Blamed for health problems in Ecuador

NY Times Erasing "The First Draft Of History"
Destroying 115,000 articles after Supreme Court rules that they must pay writers

Pour, Little Rich Girl
Jenna Bush's predicament has uncomfortable parallels to Lewinsky dilemma

The Other War Criminals
U.S. had role in arming Croatian forces now on trial with Slobodan Milosevic

What A Surprise: Foreigners Have Rights
Supreme Court throws out laws from anti- immigrant fervor of 1996

Supreme Court Puts Limit On Hi-Tech Police Snooping
But also leaves door open for future use of surveillance technology

Everyone's a critic

When Banks Offer Privacy, Restrictions and Limitations Apply
Make sure you open those "we value your privacy" letters

The Editor, The Toe, And The Dragon
Newspaper workers cheer reptile's revenge

Bush Helping Banks Launder Money
A Decent, Peculiar Place To Live
Big Timber Seeks To Silence Critics
Dubya Rule #1: It's Bad To Sue Business
Texas, Proudly Marching Backwards
What "$300 Tax Break?"
Bush Meets The Yuripeens