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The Los Angeles Times is reporting that every Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans to reject John Bolton's nomination to be US ambassador to the United Nations. This would mark the first time that committee Democrats unanimously opposed a diplomatic selection by President Bush.

While the media has covered the Terri Schiavo case extensively over the past two weeks little coverage has been given to the history of two of the key players: Schiavo's father and Rep. Tom DeLay. Both men faced a similar dilemma years ago and both supported their parents right to die.

U.S. soldiers in Iraq shot at the car of Italian journalist - Giuliana Sgrena - killing the Italian intelligence agent who helped free her and wounding three others. Sgrena had just been released after a month in captivity by the Iraqi resistance.

think that what we have here is a world empire that's controlled by a very few men I call the "corporatocracy," and these are the heads of the big corporations, big banks and government, and they tend to be the same person. John Perkins

Everybody knows how cheap and fast and powerful our home computers have become. The same thing happened probably at an even more accelerated rate in the information industry, so that in the 1990's, these private companies were able to collect literally billions of records. By Robert O'Harrow, Jr.

Kurds - who make up about 20% of Iraq's population - voted in large numbers in Sunday's elections. Pacifica reporter Aaron Glantz files a report from Arbil, the regional capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. [includes rush transcript]

Violent attacks continue across Iraq just days before the scheduled Jan. 30 elections.

I think the most important thing is who will replace Michael Powell, and now there's potentially two other seats at the FCC, potentially three seats are open.

Some 10,000 demonstrators converged on Washington DC to protest the presidential inauguration of George Bush amid the tightest security in inaugural history.

if you take Indonesia, for example, Indonesia spent a quarter of its government revenues last year on debt service. But we -- you know, we need to think bigger than just the Asian tsunami afflicted countries.

we welcome ExxonMobil's contribution, but ExxonMobil, we have to remember, has a long debt to the Acehnese people. They are by far the largest corporation operating in Aceh. The amount of profit that they derive from this region is enormous. By Derek Baxter

until 5:00, or actually until 5:30, maybe, nobody could vote without having their name in the registration lists. After 5:30, the central election commission has informed orally and practice and allowed voting in several election places without being registered in their lists.

The disaster is killing thousands in Ache but the Indonesian military has been doing that for years. By Allan Nairn and Suraiya I.T. and Amy Goodman

Enele Sopoaga, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Tuvalu to the United Nations, joins us in our studios to talk about global warming, the U.S. position on Kyoto and how small island nations deal with natural disasters. [includes rush transcript]

A new BBC documentary exposes how the city of New York has been forcing HIV positive children under its supervision to be used as human guinea pigs in tests for experimental AIDS drug trials.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, New College student Aidan Delgado was at the Army recruiting station in Tampa, Florida finalizing his paperwork to enlist in the Army Reserves.

Let's talk about life, rather than death, because we are fighting for life. However there are always threats, those who are devoted to the struggle for life and use the truth as a flag and or principles as a lifeline. By Hugo Chaves

Florida and the Bahamas are bracing for Hurricane Jeanne, which is churning westward in the Atlantic Ocean with winds over 100 miles per hour. If Jeanne hits Florida, it will be the fourth hurricane to hit the state this season.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Iraq's new unelected Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, personally shot dead six suspected members of the Iraqi resistance who were handcuffed and blindfolded at a Baghdad police station just days before he became prime minister.

When George W. Bush and Tony Blair made their fraudulent case to attack Iraq, The Times, along with most corporate media outlets in the United States, became cheerleaders for the war.

I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.

A Review of 2003 With Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Katha Pollitt, Martin Espada, Michael Parenti and Aarti Shahani

Stephen Kinzer: "Tekrar iktidara getirdiğimiz Şah zalim bir diktatördü. Onun baskısı 1979 devrimine neden oldu ve devrim fanatik şekilde batı karşıtı bir grup din adamını, ulemayı iktidara getirdi.