Common Dreams

Granted - more than granted, enthusiastically agreed - the Bushies, red-staters and fundamentalists are arch-hypocrites who profess to care about one brain-dead woman while ignoring, nay, promoting, hunger, mass murder, torture, and misery around the world. By Naomi Jaffe

Giuliana Sgrena Sets The Record Straight. By Jeremy Scahill

Four of the Six Corporations Have Paid Nearly $1 Billion to Settle Allegations of Market Manipulation

The Army probably will fall short of its monthly enlistment goals again in March and April but expects a new emphasis on patriotic pitches to make up the difference later, Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey said Wednesday. By Dogen Hannah

From Terry Schiavo to Iraq. By Rahul Mahajan

This is a government that's operating in a stealth manner that wants to keep bad news from the public. By Seth Borenstein

Selling water rights to private institutions and then having people buy them back again is an issue that keeps rearing its ugly head at every World Water Day, which falls on Mar. 22. By Anil Netto

At the end of this week's edition of ABC's This Week, in a discussion that felt like the discussion the week before and the week before that, it was noted that the Hill seems strangely silent in protesting the war. By Danny Schechter

The Rules are that the other 183 members are supposed to go along with whomever the United States designates to run the World Bank. It's the perquisite for providing nearly 17 percent of the bank's money - more than twice that of No. 2 Japan. By Elizabeth Sullivan

Civil society groups are calling for a change of course in the European Union's approach to water and sanitation in developing countries. By Stefania Bianchi

Under pressure from a spirited coalition of farmworkers and student activists, fast food giant Taco Bell finally agrees to improve their "sweatshops in the field." By Elana Berkowitz

Joseph Stiglitz, the former chief economist of the World Bank and one of the world's most influential economic thinkers, has launched a savage attack on US plans to appoint Paul Wolfowitz as the World Bank's new president. By Robert Preston

The White House, intent on continuing to crank out "video news releases" that look like television news stories, has told government agency heads to ignore a Government Accountability Office memo criticizing the practice as illegal propaganda. By Ken Herman

Violence in Iraq claimed the lives of 23 journalists and 16 media support workers in 2004, making it the most deadly year for press freedom in a decade, according to the annual report of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). By Katherine Stapp

Italian Journalist Giuliana Sgrena became an icon in Iraq, a role model of a caring journalist of conscience kidnapped by parties unknown. Her plight mobilized the people of Italy with virtually the whole county demanding her release. By Danny Schechter

Survivors of two severe cases of nuclear contamination met in the Marshall Islands to mark the 51st anniversary of the first US hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, and accused authorities of lying about the effects of radiation.

"I thought of the suffering of a people whose country was in ruins and who were further humiliated by the raids, patrols and curfews of an occupying army." By Camilo Mejia

Central American politicians and human rights activists issued stinging criticism Thursday of John Negroponte, nominated to become America's first intelligence director, citing the career diplomat's active backing for the Contra rebels and support for a government involved in human rights abuses.

'Don't Be Silent About Things That Matter'

"This is a new weapon. It isn't a mini-nuke like people think. It's a city buster, not a bunker buster, and it would harm civilians and military personnel. " By Lynda Hurst

Join a People's Campaign to Ratify the Kyoto Protocol. By Ross Gelbspan

With controversial diplomat John Negroponte installed as the all-powerful Director of National Intelligence, is the US about to switch from invasions to covert operations and dirty tricks? The assassination of the former Lebanese PM has aroused suspicions. By Trevor Royle

It was a Valentine's day massacre in front of Beirut's formerly glorious St. George hotel.

As I write this, the day after the inauguration, the banner headline in The New York Times reads: "BUSH, AT 2ND INAUGURAL, SAYS SPREAD OF LIBERTY IS THE 'CALLING OF OUR TIME.' " By Howard Zinn

Doris Haddock, 94 yaşında, Amerikalı bir büyükanne. Yaptığı bir konuşmada şöyle diyor: "Eğer Amerikan halkı, siyasi açıdan bir anlam ifade edecek iki kampa bölünecek olsaydı; bu, muhafazakârlara karşı liberaller değildir. Bu iki saf, olan bitenin farkında olanlarla, uyuşturulmuşlardır."

Activists at a leftist gathering where Microsoft is viewed as a corporate bogeyman urged developing nations Saturday to leap into the information age with free open-source software. By Alan Clendenning

Evidence is growing that global warming is already starting to disrupt the world's delicately-balanced climate system, and the damage will reverberate for generations, a top science conference was told.

That is why a new assembly is going to demand a timetable for U.S. withdrawal. Giving them that timetable is essential to peace in Iraq, and to the larger interests of the United States now and in the future.

Local insanity plus global inanity adds up to an embarrassing American moment.

the forthcoming poll will likely provide another example of the cure proving to be worse than the disease.