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Environmentalists Urge Global Ban on Fishing Trawlers
25 Mayıs 2006
As policy makers from around the world gather here to attend a major United Nations conference on fisheries, a prominent environmental...
The Morning the Apple Dropped: ...
24 Mayıs 2006
"I told you so, I told you a bomb would go off," the French banker says excitedly. The French are an excitable people, especially when...
Neglected Afghanistan Flares Up
23 Mayıs 2006
Dusty Helmand province thrusts north from an ill-patrolled Paki stan border into the heart of Afghanistan's bandit country. By Elizabeth...
Americans Don't Like President Bush Personally Much Anymore, Either
22 Mayıs 2006
It's not just the way he's doing his job. Americans apparently don't like President Bush personally much anymore, either. By Steven Thomma
When Glaciers Attack -- The World that Might Have Been
18 Mayıs 2006
Al Gore appeared last weekend on 'Saturday Night Live.' In the show's alternate reality, here's the speech he gave. By Al Gore
Time to Call Bush on Lawbreaking
17 Mayıs 2006
The National Security Agency has created ''the largest database ever'' with the phone records of millions of Americans provided to the NSA...
From Hobbes To Your Cell: Hail the Surveillance State
16 Mayıs 2006
Attention, chickens: You may soon be coming home to roost. By Danny Schechter
The War of Internet Democracy
12 Mayıs 2006
This week, the House is expected to vote on something termed, in perfect Orwellian prose, the "Communications Opportunity, Promotion and...
US Freeze on Medical Aid Takes its Toll
11 Mayıs 2006
The United States has stopped providing medical supplies to Palestinian hospitals as part of Washington's sanctions against Hamas. By Tim...
Let's Deport Immigration Myths
10 Mayıs 2006
In the red-hot debate over immigration, myth too often takes the place of truth. It is time to step back, take a deep breath and reflect...
Palestinian Pain, One Kid at a Time
10 Mayıs 2006
Every day, world leaders think of new ways to punish the Palestinians for electing Hamas. But the people who suffer most are children like...
Critics of the Iraq War Put Rumsfeld on the Defensive
8 Mayıs 2006
His speech in Atlanta is interrupted three times. In a Q&A, a former CIA analyst calls him a liar.
A Setback for Democracy
8 Mayıs 2006
The US-led invasion in Iraq interrupted the Middle East's gradual movement toward liberalization
The Real Oil Story: The Oil in Iraq
8 Mayıs 2006
The press is playing up $3 a gallon gasoline, record oil company profits, and the $400 million retirement package for Exxon's former CEO....
Granny Power Takes on the War in Iraq
8 Mayıs 2006
In Manhattan, 18 women of granny age, full of wit and wisdom, have just won a court case and sent their protest story around the world....
Neil Young Clobbers the Thought Police
5 Mayıs 2006
Peace groups like True Majority smartly have seized on the moment to mobilize Young's listeners. Never before has any album moved so...
I'm Tired of Bushes and Clintons
4 Mayıs 2006
Every presidential election since 1980 has had a Bush or a Clinton on a major party ticket. And the pundits say we're likely to see a...
Are Immigrants Putting Justice on Parade?
3 Mayıs 2006
May 1, a day of worker celebration, began in the United States around the struggle for the eight-hour day. Now it is honored across the...
On Streets of New York, Solidarity Reigns
3 Mayıs 2006
All you had to do was take one look down normally bustling St. Nicholas Ave. in Washington Heights yesterday afternoon to sense an...
The Ten Worst Corporations of 2005
26 Nisan 2006
2005 was a good year for bad corporations. There were no U.S. elections to worry about, with their troubling possibility of politicians...
As Gas Prices Climb, Wind Power Wins Over New Fans
26 Nisan 2006
Thanks to $3-a-gallon gasoline and $75-a-barrel oil, wind power - the once-wimpy little brother of the energy industry - is putting on...
Abuses Found in Hiring at Iraq Bases
25 Nisan 2006
Violations of laws on human-trafficking prompt U.S. military's order for change. By Cam Simpson
In Terror War, Not All Names Are Equal
21 Nisan 2006
Even though little is known about the evidence the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) relied on to freeze and seize assets...
Rumsfeld Linked to Guantanamo Torture
20 Nisan 2006
A leading international human rights group is calling for the Bush administration to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the...
