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A little over two years ago, anti-war demonstrations of unprecedented magnitude rocked the globe and the New York Times termed the anti-war movement "the world's second superpower. By Stephen R. Shalom

How 100% debt cancellation for poor countries-now being debated by wealthy nations- was transformed from an implausible demand into a winning issue, and what barriers lie ahead for the debt relief movement. By Mark Engler

The cover story of the Time Magazine of March 14, 2005 was dedicated to the theme, "How to End Poverty". It was based on an essay by Jeffrey Sacks "The End of Poverty", from his book with the same title. By Vandana Shiva

Direct Action To Stop War Profiteers. By Scott Parkin

A boycott decision, like that passed by Britain's Association of University Teachers to boycott two Israeli universities, naturally raises a hue and cry among Israelis. By Tanya Reinhart

In October 2003, I had taken the plane from Amman airport, where I was promptly arrested upon my arrival in Israel, after having all of my bags checked and my body searched meticulously, at the Ben Gurion airport. By Dr. Musa Isa Barhoum

Last Monday, nearly 230 years after the modern democratic American Revolution challenged the Divine Right of Kings and "made the rights of man known to all of Europe" (Condorcet), a curious meeting took place in the vacation home of the President of the United States. By Paul Street

The Association of University Teachers in Britain voted today to begin an academic boycott of two Israeli universities, Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University. They voted not to initiate a boycott of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. By Baruch Kimmerling and Ilan Pappe and Henri Picciotto

Ruined, Cordoned Falluja Is Emerging As The Decade's Monument To Brutality. By Jonathan Steele and Dahr Jamail

"I would like to start with a famous remark by Theodor W. Adorno. Anarchism is, as Adorno noted in the famous essay, nothing more but the "return of the ghost". I agree with Adorno although the explanation I would like to offer is slightly different." By Andrej Grubacic

In previous reports I've discussed why I thought that the political uprisings in Eastern Europe of the past 18 months, which have resulted in changes of government in Georgia and Ukraine and the potential for the same elsewhere, have not entirely been phenomena of spontaneous combustion.

Two new reports on economics and politics in the Arab states dramatized what all astute observers already knew: the Arab region is a mess and US policies have exacerbated the situation. By Saul Landau and Farrah Hassen

The extinction crisis is over. We lost. By Stephen M. Meyer

Formerly secret British files tell the story of British backing for the Ba'ath party's seizure of power in Iraq in 1963. This is the root of London and Washington's previous backing of Saddam and repressive regimes in Baghdad, continuing today. By Mark Curtis

On 26th of December, the day of the tsunami, the Government of India introduced a Patent Ordinance which we named the tsunami law, since it threatens to tear down the entire fabric of food security and health security we had built carefully and democratically since independence, by creating patent m

(and It's Relation to Capitalism, Democracy and Socialism) Bby Bertell Ollman

" Ignacio Ramonet, in his introduction, mentioned that I am a new kind of leader. I accept this, especially coming from a bright mind such as Ignacio's, but I am inspired by many old leaders." By Hugo Chávez

The Appointment of Zalmay Khalilzad to Iraq. By James Ingalls

We find ourselves in a remarkable situation today. A majority of people in the United States now believe the invasion of Iraq was not worth the consequences, including (as of today) the death of more than 1,530 soldiers in Iraq. By Anthony Arnove

The carbon lobby (mainly the coal and oil companies) when they don't deny that human cause global warming exists, suggest that it would be less expensive and more humane to do nothing about it. "Burn all the fossil fuels you want, and adapt to the changes" they say.

people like George Will and former Sen. Malcolm Wallop (R-Wyo.) who've come out against the "nuclear option," who have said the filibuster is important because minorities and majorities shift.

In fact state violence and army violence, individual and collective violence, are the lot of Muslim women today, not only in Palestine but wherever the enlightened western world is setting its big imperialistic foot. By Nurit Peled-Elhanan

Frequently in the global economy, it seems that corporations are able to get away with activities which would see an individual locked up in the Hague for decades. By Nick Dearden and Joe Zacune

First a critique of religion, as a factor of alienation. The human being attributes to the divinity responsibility for a fate which owes nothing to the latter. By Gilbert Achcar

President George W. Bush has designated Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as a nominee for the president of the World Bank to succeed current World Bank president James Wolfensohn. By Abu Spinoza

The great bulk of my scholarly work has been devoted to documenting the United States' disregard for law and the resulting violence it has perpetrated both domestically and internationally. By Ward Churchill

Book Review by John Stauber

When Syria's young president, Bashar Assad, contemplates the forces ranged against him, he may recall that his father faced greater odds and won. By Charles Glass

"Our continuing uneconomic growth makes us complicit in a process that is triggering an ecological catastrophe for our children and generations beyond them.

Nineteen State Duma deputies petitioned the Prosecutor General to ban Jews. The document was published right on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and coincided with President Vladimir Putin's appearance at a somber commemoration. The president was forced to apologize.