Pentagon Seeks Exemptions From Enviromental Laws
Draft bill in Congress is "license to ravage the earth" say enviros

Supreme Court Upholds Cruel "One Strike" Policy
Elderly kicked out of public housing if relatives caught with drugs, even blocks away

JUDI BARI VS FBI TRIAL BEGINS FBI agents and Oakland Police officers are charged with false arrest, illegal search and seizure, and conspiracy against Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney by smearing them and the Earth First! environmental movement in the aftermath of the the May 24, 1990 pipe bomb explosion

Over 500 supporters of Earth First! and the late Judi Bari rallied on the opening day of her trial PHOTO: Nicholas Wilson FBI, Police, Weren't Interested In Taking Statements Bari, Cherney, and supporters eager to cooperate and help authorities find the bomber Jury Examines Judi Bari's Bombed Car Jury, reporters get rare look at crucial evidence After 12 Years, Judi Bari Vs. FBI Trial Begins Long-awaited trial begins in Oakland

Iraq's 30-Day Oil Embargo Most Likely To Hurt Poor Countries U.S. unlikely to suffer because of anti-Israel protest

Enviros say the bison in Yellowstone are following snowmobile trails leading outside the National Park, where they are killed

Iraq Emerges From Arab Summit With More Support Insurance against attack from U.S.

Indonesia, Malaysia Tell Bush: Take Your Terror War Elsewhere Crackdown would invite backlash from extremists, some backed by Indonesian generals

Bush Terror War Allies Calling in Their Debts Ruthless Uzbekistan dictator comes calling at the White House

Death Sentence Faces Bison Outside Of Yellowstone Montana slaughtering buffalo without testing for disease that may sicken cattle

War Crimes Court To Start In July But can't consider earlier events, such as current Israeli-Palestinian violence

Australia Fabricated Story To Stir Anti-Refugee Hatred Navy made up claim about children tossed off boats

Mexico Tricked Natives Into Sterilization
Compensation promised for vasectomy included several bags of cement

Energy Projects Subject to Murky Funding, Study Shows World banks can withdraw from controversial projects, yet still fund indirectly

Neo-Nazi Violence Growing In Russia
Official estimates of up to 20,000 extremists in Moscow alone

Significant Extinctions Loom In 1 Of 4 States
At risk of losing at least 10 percent of their native species

VENEZUELA'S TWO DAY COUP D'ETAT Conservative business interests ousted Venezuela's elected president Hugo Chavez, suspended the constitution, and setup a right-wing government. Overnight some 100,000 gathered in protest, leading the bulk of the military to realize that they faced a widespread popular revolution. The new government had little choice but to resign after one day in power. But in its one day in control, the Bush administration rushed to embrace the anti-democratic forces

Venezuelans Suspect U.S. Role In Coup U.S. military officials allegedly in place before coup attempt Behind Venezuela's Two-Day Coup d'Etat Timeline of events leading to coup attempt Venezuela Media Didn't Cope Well With Coup Pro-coup TV played cartoons, soap operas to keep public in the dark How Democracy Survived In Venezuela Faction didn't understand Chavez' wide popular support

A Chinese woman prepares to smash a computer monitor to remove the copper inside (PHOTO: © Basel Action Network)

Most Poor Battered Women Don't Seek Help, Study Finds

IMF Tightens Grip Over Argentina
Nation finds IMF has blocked all ways out -- except its own

High-Tech U.S. Trash Floods Asia Chinese region where 100,000 break apart obsolete computer parts

Women's Rights in Gulf Region Take One Step Forward, One Back But status in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait still dismal

French Voters Suffer Election Day Hangover Le Pen victory attributed to people who thought vote didn't matter

The Dingy Closets of the Catholic Church
Vatican has allegedly paid over a billion dollars in priest pedofile settlements

Dear Old Friend And War Criminal
Why did you lead your soldiers to a war against a civilian population?

Clinton To Blame For Mideast Mess, Right Insists
The Mystery Of The Drunken Goat
Moral Clarity Meets Reality
Repubs And Their Tax Games
So Where Are The Democrats?
Bush Discovers The World Of (Not) Black And White
Bush Repeating His Texas Mistakes
The Sheer Stupidity of America's Health Care System