To really make a difference in our civic and political landscape, Nader must lure back the disaffected older voters who took a gamble and voted their consciences in 2000 but now feel betrayed and reach out to the disaffected older voters who were too cautious to take the leap but now feel as if those who did were fools. What will Ralph say to them?

Bush Fine-Tunes Enemies List Iraq bad, Saudi's are good pals -- probably

U.S. Calls Zimbabwe Election "Fraudulent," Won't Recognize Government Opposed to land reform plans (see story below)

As Half of Zimbabwe Near Starvation, White Farmers Fight Land Reform 4,500 whites owned 70+ percent of prime farmland

Riots in Venezuela as Court Debates Coup Leader's Fate Supreme Court considers fate of military leaders of failed overthrow

Xerox Caught in India Accounting Fraud Cooking the books and tax evasion

The media smeared Dr. Steven Hatfill as the leading suspect in the anthrax letters by repeating information leaked by the FBI. But the U.S. press ignored some of the most incriminating questions about his past

Oregon Protesters Slam Bush Timber Plans "Healthy Forests" plan would reduce or remove environmental restrictions

House Shoots Down Bush on Cuban Embargo
Although White House tried to claim Castro was "developing biological weapons"

Argentina Economic Collapse Leads to "Express Kidnaps" Stash of cash, jewelry at many homes because no one trusts banks

Is "Left Behind" Evangelical Book Series a Blueprint for Bush Administration? Israel: good -- Jews: misguided -- UN, Baghdad: bad

Indonesia Covering up 1999 Atrocities, UN Says Instead of facing death penalty, all officers found innocent of crimes against humanity

Young Afghan Women Setting Themselves Ablaze Rise after Taliban defeat tied to arranged marriages as 2nd wife

Russia Pushing Forward With Risky Gas Project
Widespread environmental damage feared in project with $4 billion funding from ExxonMobil

CIA Was In On Operation Condor Conspiracy, Memo Shows
Further implicates Kissinger in assassination plot

India Faces Economic Collapse as Worst-Ever Drought Looms With resources strained to the limit, India faces farming collapse

State Dept. Asked Court to Drop ExxonMobil Human Rights Suit Claimed that it might interfere with War on Terror

MONITOR interviews editorial cartoonist Ted Rall, who was among the stream of international journalists pouring into Afghanistan late last year. Rall has written a unique book -- half cartoon, half narrative -- that portrays a troubled country not far removed from the 14th century. To Rall, Afghanistan is a "clash between Islamic fundamentalism...left-over Soviet totalitarian dictatorships, mixed with its special witches' brew of tribal feuds and a Caspian Sea Oil rush"

One Million Russian Children Under 14 Working
10 - 30% slip into crime or prostitution

Microsoft Sets Sights on "E-Mexico"
Wants to sell government Internet kiosks for poor communities

Mexico Awash in Untreated Toxic Waste
Another 8 million tons buried or dumped in waters each year

No Fed Funding for Church-Centered Chastity Programs, Judge Rules Churches were using money for revivals and religious programs

COLOMBIA WAR UPDATE

Colombia Paramilitary Splits Into 3 Groups Expected to increase civil war bloodshed

Colombia Rebels Kidnap Entire Village Over 1,000 taken as human shields in biggest mass kidnapping ever