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It remains unclear who was responsible for the attack on the golden-domed Askariya Shi'a mosque in Samarra. In the two days following the bombing over 200 Iraqis were killed, and the country was put under a day-and-night curfew. By Phyllis Bennis and Erik Leaver

As a depleted population struggled to celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans, new reports emerged about corporate cronyism and disaster profiteering under the Bush Administration. By Ruth Conniff

A free-to-air television watchdog has prevented the broadcast of commercials for an Adelaide solar shop, in which a prominent scientist describes climate change as the "greatest threat to mankind".

Don't look now, but your backyard is evolving. It's no joke. There's a growing body of evidence that evolution is no longer something only seen either in this year's flu virus or Cretaceous tyrannosaur bones. It's happening everywhere, right now, and charging full-steam ahead. By Larry O'Hanlon

On Mardi Gras Day, the nation will be looking to New Orleans to see if we are wearing masks. We'll be wearing them in New Orleans, but they're being worn in Washington D.C. too. By Fatima Shaik

The political analyst Bertram Gross argued that there is no great malice driving the coalition of "the ultra-rich, the corporate overseers, and the brass in the military and civilian order" as it "squelches the rights and liberties of other people both at home and abroad".

Yesterday's New York Sun -- a small, conservative New York daily noted for its slavishly pro-Israel, pro-Likkud politics and its pandering to the worst fears of New York's large Jewish community -- yesterday published a hallucinatory article, "France's Le Pen to Strike a Deal with Muslims,"

Janjaweed militias and Chadian rebel groups with support from the Sudanese government are launching deadly cross-border raids on villages in eastern Chad, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.

Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country and become unapologetically paranoid. Paranoia should now be the normal state of mind for thinking people. By Margaret Kimberley

It's impossible not to be dismayed by the spiral of events. A witless racist cartoon is elevated into a totem of western democracy and holocaust denial becomes a symbol of resistance to imperialism. By Mike Marqusee

The 100-mph car chase ended in a blaze of gunfire at the Peace Arch, the graceful marble monument that straddles the U.S.-Canada border here and proclaims the two nations to be "Children of a Common Mother." y Sam Howe Verhovek

Aficionados of the movie "Casablanca" will recall the roguishly corrupt police inspector Louis Renault, played by Claude Rains, who upon "discovering" that gambling was taking place at Rick's club, proclaimed that he was "shocked, shocked." By Floyd J. McKay

Green groups have accused the government of ignoring the threat of natural disasters after a massive landslide wiped Guinsaugon in Leyte, leaving some 1,400 people missing.

Shopkeepers in the Midlands have been given a high-tech device designed to disperse groups of youths by emitting a high-pitched noise that only they can hear.

Ohio State University scientists, five years after warning the ice fields on Mount Kilimanjaro might melt, now say their prediction is coming true.

Labor has found success by eschewing NLRB elections in favor of employer neutrality and card checks. By David Moberg

Australia's coal industry has resolutely denied obtaining undue access to federal government workings on the issue of climate change.

Labor is calling for a broad inquiry into allegations by senior CSIRO scientists they were gagged from airing their concerns over climate change.

A World Bank report has warned that climate change will have a huge impact on Pacific islands, and has cautioned against adopting a "wait and mitigate" approach to the looming crises that are expected to affect the region. By Cynthia Banham

Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort" to block Teheran's efforts to develop an atomic bomb. By Philip Sherwell

Türkiye'nin sivil amaçlı nükleer enerji programının, Başbakan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan tarafından bir ay içinde açıklanması bekleniyor.

The United States has spent more than a quarter of a trillion dollars during its three years in Iraq, and more than $50 billion of it has gone to private contractors hired to guard bases, drive trucks, feed and shelter the troops and rebuild the country. By Jennifer MacDonald/Ira Rosen

As suspected, and claimed on this blog over the weekend, the inflammatory anti-Muslim cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten were a deliberate provocation designed to outrage and incite Muslims and thus engender support in Europe and America for the manufactured "clash of civiliz

The snow was 68 centimetres deep in New York's Central Park on Sunday as a blizzard paralyzed the U.S. from Maryland to Maine.

The George W. Bush administration's adoption of a policy of threatening to use military force against Iran disregarded a series of official intelligence estimates going back many years that consistently judged Iran's fear of a U.S.

Climate change is pushing this easygoing enviro over the edge. By Bill McKibben

Many years ago, I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. By Kurt Vonnegut

Debate ponders when 'tipping point' will arrive. By Juliet Eilperin

The world's worst fears about global warming, and the consequent rise in sea-levels may one day become a reality, according to a recent research carried out on the subject.

The fifth season of "24," the phenomenally successful Fox television series, premiered on January 15. Composed of 24 one-hour episodes, the show chronicles the workday of the fictitious L.A.-based Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) as it desperately attempts to thwart a catastrophic terrorist attack.