In January, 23 year-old American Rachel Corrie came to the Palestinian town that some call "the bottom of the dungeon" to set up a sister city relationship with her hometown. She planned to stay in Rafah for at least two months, but she didn't expect that an Israeli soldier would kill her

U.S. Reported In Secret Peace Talks With Taliban
Extremists control much of Afghanistan amid growing attacks on U.S. forces

Iraq Guerrilla War Leads U.S. Launch Of "Project Desert Scorpion"
Echoes of Vietnam War buildup

Bush Peace "Road Map" In Doubt As Mideast Violence Explodes
A week after peace summit, Israel's war on Hamas threatens everything

Tony Blair Bets Everything On Finding Iraqi WMD
Accused of "sexing up" intelligence material

Rights Groups Want U.S. Tried For Iraq War Crimes Suits filed over deaths of civilians, journalists

Doubts Cast On U.S. Explanation Of Iraqi Protesters' Deaths No evidence of guerrilla attack prior to Army opening fire and killing at least 20 Iraqis

Newly-Released Documents Show Enron Ties To Bush White House Treasury, State Dept, even National Security Council called on to lobby for Enron

Bush Euro Tour Anything But A Victory Lap
An empire that is in trouble, and on virtually every front

FCC To Relax Media Ownership Restrictions
Wave of media buyouts expected

Iraqi, Afghan Refugees Find No Welcome In France Or UK
Over 100k asylum applications to England last year, most from refugees living in France

Saddam Atrocities Top Story In Arab Media
New willingness by Arab leaders to make peace with Israel

Law Experts Call U.S. Plans For Terrorist Trials Illegal Some bar associations warn lawyers against participating

U.S. Court Says Nothing Wrong With 9/11 Detentions "For the first time ever, a U.S. court has sanctioned secret arrests"

Rightwing Think Tank Attacks Independent Orgs Favorite Bush think tank wants to snuff non-corporate advocacy groups

Delegation From Postwar Iraq Grilled By UN Press "Who do you really represent?" "Who paid for your trip?"

U.S. Reveals Blueprints To Open Iraq To Multinationals Free markets will solve everything

Canada's Relationship With Bush Now Ice Cold
In retaliation for no support of Iraq invasion, Bush may be first president to not visit Canada in 60 years

Poll Finds Muslim World View Of U.S. At New Low
Bad opinion of U.S. now widespread from Indonesia to Africa

Bush Hawks Eye Northern Iran Meeting with dissedents in Azerbaijan

Iraq Chaos Still Threatens UN Relief Ops
Carjackings, organized looting plagues cities as criminals roam streets

Does Iraqi General Hold Key To Why Baghdad Fell Quickly? Saddam's cousin and top general absent from U.S. card deck of 55 most-wanted Iraqis

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dodged the question about Saddam's use of offshore banking, also heavily used by U.S. corporations, at a May 27 appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York

Iran Sees British Conspiracy Behind Every Mullah Popular view that the English are the wits and brains behind American actions

Iran Blames Student Protests On U.S. Khamenei compares events to 1952 CIA-instigated riots

Iraq Should Heed Lessons From U.S. Occupation Of Japan Japan's social order was key to peaceful occupation

Russia And U.S. Square Off Over Iran
Russia behind construction of Iran's first nuclear reactor

Burma In Crisis Over Arrest Of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi
Army's top ranks want nothing to do with democracy

SADDAM USED SAME OFFSHORE BANKING METHODS FAVORED BY U.S. CORPORATIONS
Western bank and corporate secrecy system used to launder bribes

The "Great Game" Continues -- With U.S. In Charge Bush trying to nudge Russia out of what used to be its backyard

Phony Jessica Lynch Story Nearly Same As 1897 "War Outrage" Hearst newspapers cooked up similar tale for Spanish-American War

Australia Govt. Fighting Probe Of Pre-War Iraq Intel
Joint parliamentary committee will investigate if nation was misled about Saddam's WMD

Top Australian Leader Wants Media Crackdown For Iraq War Criticism
"I think there were some examples of Saddam Hussein being treated very gently"

INSIDE THE RADICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE NEOCONS

Few Americans are aware of the radical philosophies behind the neoconservative movement that is embraced by the Bush Administration. Founder Leo Strauss hated individualism, liberalism and relativism, because those traits that might encourage dissent. "You want a crowd that you can manipulate like putty." Strauss believed those who are fit to rule are those who realize there is no morality and that there is only one natural right, the right of the superior to rule over the inferior. Michael Ledeen, whose ideas are repeated daily by such figures as Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, preaches "creative destruction" and "total war." His views virtually define the stark departure from American foreign policy philosophy that existed before the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001. "The sparing of civilian lives cannot be the total war's first priority ... The purpose of total war is to permanently force your will onto another people." Leo Strauss: The Strong Must Rule The Weak Neocon Guru Michael Ledeen Sets Sites On Iran And "Total War"

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The security fence that Israel is building between itself and the West Bank has become another flashpoint between the two warring sides. The first phase of the fence along the northern part of the West Bank is in an advanced stage of construction. The ultimate plan is to build the barrier along the entire 365- kilometer border of the West Bank

Radical Israelis Prepared For Confrontation Over Outposts "We will wage a battle even over a tent"

Israel Presses On With Its Own Berlin Wall "Security" barrier compared to South Africa's apartheid

Bush Set To "Protect" Forests By Building More Roads
Called an "unbelievably shameless attack on our national forests"

One Week After Agreement, Israel Pushes Bush Aside
Sharon again pounds occupied territories after peace agreement

Palestinians Wary Of "Road Map To Peace"
Would make any suicide bombing a breach of trust

Israeli Colonists Wary Of "Road Map To Peace"
Many near broke, would need payout to leave settlements heavily subsidized by government

Crime, Violence On Increase In S America Cities
Business booming for security services, turning homes into fortresses

Pakistan Region Moves Toward Taliban Police System "Virtue Police" would enforce strict Islamic law

Iraqi Farmers Face Uncertain Future Hard to plant spring crops while country under invasion

Industry Finds New Angle To Beat Injury Suits: Dispute Science 1993 court ruling being used to discourage expert testimony

Police in riot gear blocked protesters from a Department of Agriculture conference touting genetically modified food

"GOOD NEWS ONLY" BIOTECH CONFERENCE MET BY PROTESTS
Industry claiming to be saving the world from hunger -- again

U.S. Bars UNESCO From Iraq Because Team Had French Librarian
Bars UN scholars out of spite for opposition to war

White House Pressured EPA to Whitwash Environment Report Bad news about global warming, rising pollution not mentioned at all

Aceh And The Grim Shadows Of Civil War
Indonesia crackdown on seperatists creates wave of refugees, killings

Bush Terror War Threw Refugees Worldwide Into Limbo U.S. accepted only 27k refugees last year, lowest number in over two decades

Iraq War Deceptions Spell Trouble For Bush
Americans want their acts of war to be justified

David Horowitz Gets It All Wrong
Lashing out at Sid Blumenthal and old enemies

Bush Uses Iran War Threats To Distract From Mideast Roadblocks
Grandstanding easier than meaningful peace process