Without Any Real Power From U.S, Iraq Council Begins Meetings Hand-picked by the U.S. administrator

Protesters At UN Taunt New Iraq Diplomats "If this is an indication of democracy -- as preached by the United States -- Iraq is in deep trouble"

Al Qaeda Now Unable To Match Sept 11 Attack, Commission Told
Right-wingers try to pin 9/11 on Saddam

Pentagon, White House, Justice Dept. Stonewall Committee Investigating Sept. 11
Bush admin foot-dragging as deadline for report approaches

U.S. Seeks Exemption From Possible War Crimes -- In Liberia
Official says it is essential "...to save the lives of civilians and allow life to be breathed into a dying nation"

UN Has Share Of Blame In Liberia Bloodbath
Rebels were encouraged because UN made announcement just as peace talks began

Independent Group Tries To Tally Iraq War Deaths 150 volunteers try to do job that Pentagon refuses to do

Support Iran Opposition? Bush Admin Can't Decide
Conservatives want to embrace group that helped overthrow Shah

Burma Finds Itself With Fewer And Fewer Friends
Dicatorship under boycotts by U.S. and most other nations

Chance Of Breakaway Asian Islamic State Fades
U.S. feared creation of new fundamentalist Muslim country in Southeast Asia

Poll: Support Dropping For Iraq War, Bush Only 1 in 3 believes Bush "fully truthful" about WMD in Iraq

Arafat Just Won't Go Away, To Dismay Of Israel, U.S.
Still pulls many -- if not all -- of the strings in Palestine conflict

Support For Palestine PM Abbas Drops
No compromise for most Palestinans over right of return

State Dept. Neo-Con Attacks N Korea, Escalating Tensions
Controversial extremist raises ire just as N Korea agrees to nuclear talks

10 Years After Apartheid, Blacks Own Little In S Africa Whites still own 3 out of 4 properties

U.S. Maps Ambitious "Arab NAFTA" Would require free trade with Israel

Bush Forest Plan: Log 190 Million Acres
"Healthy Forests Act" would prevent fires by heavy logging, risking forest health

13 Million In Afghanistan Need Urgent Medical Aid Unending stream of patients at hospitals

House Bars Secret Search Provision Of PATRIOT Act Would have opened door to CIA, NSA spying in U.S.

Dean's Lesson To The Dems: He Who Dares, Wins

Iraq Special Ops Sounding Like Iran Contra
Even some of the players and countries are the same in similar, but much more ambitious scheme

EPA Nominee Charged With Anti-Enviro Backroom Deals
Utah governor "Leavitt cut the public out of the process while gutting federal environmental law behind closed doors"

Pentagon Office Is Center Of Neo-Con Plotting
All Bush political appointees tied to Israel's Likud party

On the now-defunct Pentagon web page, futures investors could bet 17 cents on the assassination of Yasser Arafat

Pentagon Scuttles "Bet On Terrorism" Plan
Investors could gamble on assassinations, government coup

It's The Jobs, Stupid
Bush now has 15 months to create promised 5.5 million new jobs before election day

Repub Congress Blocks Money For UN Population Fund
Anti-abortion forces refuse to spend anything on family planning

White House Cuts Back On AIDS Funding Promises
Funds cut just days after Bush returned from Africa trip

The Final Disgrace of Christine Whitman
Last EPA report a shameless and disgraceful attack on the environment

With Each Day, Iraq Looks Like Vietnam II
So how could such smart people get so much wrong?

Bush Pick For AIDS Czar Draws Concern And Anger
Former drug company exec and a top GOP contributor

Was it a High Crime?
Bush must either turn up Iraqi WMD or prove he was deceived

Energy Bill Bankrupts Our Future
Senate oks 6+ new nuke plants without public hearings

Latino Voter's Clout On Rise As Black Political Power Fades
Latinos' rising political star is giving some black leaders the jitters

U.S. Suffered Record Levels of Smog in 2002 Nearly double 2001 violations

U.S. Bans Import of "Conflict Diamonds" From Africa
Has financed deadly conflicts in countries such as Angola, Sierra Leone, Congo and Liberia

Russia Slowly Abandoning Siberia, Other Northern Regions Old Soviet electrical, heating systems wearing out

GOP Senators Blast Nature For Changing Climate
Claim new study overturns international science concensus

Drug Industry Tries To Kill Cheap Medicine From Canada Prescription drug lobby budgets extra $450,000 to attack discount pharmacies

Even on Laysan, the tiny and uninhabited island at the end of the Hawaiian Archipelago, the beach is littered with plastic cigarette lighters, toys, vials, and other marine debris that has washed ashore Photo: Tom Ordway/Ocean Futures Society

Herbicide Company Launches "Grassroots" Campaign To Fight Ban The battle to ban paraquat is far from over

Israel Presses Ahead With Apartheid Wall Very little sympathy in Israel for Palestinians whose lives are being affected by the fence

Tons Of Litter Wash Ashore On Most Remote Islands Millions of plastic cigarette lighters alone on distant beaches

U.S. Stretches Border 1,000 Miles To Block "Illegal Aliens"
Detaining undocumented migrants from Ecuador before they reach the United States

Palestinian Economy Choked By Israeli Roadblocks
Two-thirds of Palestinians live on less than $2/day

Funding Woes Plague Superfund Clean Up
Less than half the number of sites as during the end of Clinton years

Palestine Bitter Over Israel's Release Of Few Prisoners
Release of 334 called "a theatrical step to appease Washington"

In Israel And Palestine, A Guarded Optimism
Overwhelming desire for a cease-fire on both sides

Autistic Children May Retain Mercury
Strongest evidence yet that mercury exposure is tied to autism

Russian Mafia Muscles In On Hazelnut Farms Cakes, cookies, and coffee may include that special gangster flavor

Medical Journal Warns That Science Is Being Manipulated Researchers have ties to food, agribusiness, chemical, pharmaceutical and other interests

Prestige Oil Spill Was Costliest Sea Disaster In History
$11.4 billion now estimated for cleanup

Study Finds High PCB in Farmed Salmon
4x the levels found in beef 3.4 times levels in other seafood

Japanese Culture To Change As Foreign Workers Pour In
A graying country with a shrinking work force and fear of foreigners

The mastermind behind White House policy?

Jon Lovitz, Bush's Other Brain
The old, "Yeah, that's what I meant" schtick

Bush Indifferent As Guatemala's "Saddam Hussein" Moves To Return To Power
Gassed, tortured and killed as many people in 1980s as Saddam

California Lags In Prison Reform
State still taking a "lock 'em up" view while others embrace treatment programs

Cruz Bustamante, Blacks, And The "N-----" Word
To win Calif recall race, Bustamante needs strong support from Blacks, who don't trust him

U.S. Newspapers Ignore Iraq Civilian Deaths
15 die every day from cluster bombs alone

Killing Saddam's Sons -- Or Saddam -- Does Not A Nation Make
We are witnessing the start of a mad struggle over the soul of the nation

Blackout Of 2003 A Wake-Up Call For Modern Energy Policy
Blame Repubs For Blackout Of 2003
Ashcroft Now Investigating Judges
A Kind Of "They're doing WHAT?" Month
Dishonest Defense Of Disgraceful Judge
Notes From A Country In Trouble
Nothing Funny About Texas Legislature Hide And Seek
Sept. 11 Report Shows Little Accountability By Anyone
Alaska Exploited At Every Turn
Hello, Rumsfeld? The Occupation Isn't Working
Colorful Charlie Wilson Wins The Cold War
Here's To Everybody
Supreme Court Hissy Fits