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In tune with the world's latest fad, the World Bank prominently displays a slogan in its Washington DC office: 'The purpose of the World Bank is to fight poverty with passion.' By Devinder Sharma

I have spent 6 of the last 12 months in Iraq. As I mentioned, what brought me here was the nearly total failure of the US 'mainstream' media to show the truth of this illegal invasion and occupation. How it affected the Iraqis, as well as US soldiers. By Dahr Jamail and Charles Shaw

Chilean Women Celebrate Gaining Right to Divorce

September has become Generalissimo Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's cruelest month. September once loomed as the time of Pinochet's personal triumph -- and death for his victims around the world.

President William McKinley's words should echo with President Bush and his Evangelical zealots. Like the Republican who initiated U.S. overseas military expansion, the current President also talks to God and hears His words.

Last weekend alone, over 70 Iraqis were killed in violence around their country. Yet these are only those reported as a result of spectacular, "newsworthy" incidents like car bombs or clashes between the resistance and occupation forces.

In 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer declared, "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds," after he witnessed the first nuclear explosion under the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory. By Nick Schwellenbach and John Pruett.

Zanon, "Patronsuz Fabrikalar" (fabricas sin patrones) alternatif hareketinin bir parçası. Her çalışanın 1 oy hakkı olan, kârlılığını "patronlu" döneme göre %50 arttıran fabrika, çalıştığı fakir bölgeye de 20 yıldır halk tarafından istenen sağlık kliniğini açtı.

Like the rest of the mainstream media, the BBC did next to nothing to expose the devastating effects of US-UK war and sanctions on the civilian population of Iraq from 1990 onwards.

On November 8 and 11 we published two Media Alerts: 'Legitimising Mass Slaughter in Fallujah,' in which we commented on the bias and inhumanity of BBC and ITV News reporting on Fallujah. By David Edwards.

Journalists and residents who have fled Fallujah share accounts of US troops killing unarmed and wounded people; Dahr Jamail continues interviewing survivors as images of a city under US assault further emerge. By Dahr Jamail.

Where activists stand five years after the landmark protests that reshaped the globalization debate.

Millions of us are asking such questions today, with at least dozens of answers -- only some of them compatible with each other. Here is mine.

United States is using napalm in Falluja. So far, the military has denied the allegations, but the proof is mounting.

I'm in need of a haircut, so I ask Abu Talat if he thinks it would be safe to get one here, risking the time on the street required to do so. By Dahr Jamail.

As a Corpsman I was able to avoid many situations that my Marines either relished or did not refuse.

Zanon ceramics factory, one of the most prominent of the recuperated, worker-run factories in Argentina, was taken over by workers in 2001 and since then has been economically successful as a cooperative. By Benjamin Dangl

The U.S. military has used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses report.

I don't think we'll be hearing the 'NBA Action is Faaaantstic' slogan revived anytime soon. The aftermath of the most violent player/fan brawl in US sports history has met with the hand wringing we usually associate with Janet Jackson's right breast. By Dave Zirin.

In their film, The Corporation, Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan describe how in the mid-1800s the corporation was declared a "fictitious person" in law and granted the same legal rights as real individuals. So what kind of 'person' is a corporation? By Dave Edwards.

Statistical Analysis - the Sole Method for Tracking E-Voting - Shows Irregularities May Have Awarded 130,000 - 260,000 or More Excess Votes to Bush in Florida - Research Team Calls for Investigation

The Japan-United States relationship seems abnormal. "Abnormal" because, even if it didn't begin all of a sudden, since Koizumi came to power, and especially since 9.11, a situation that can only be described as "extreme abnormality" has become the norm.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind...

One thing we can say for certain at this point, after the grieving, the anger, is that the country is still bitterly divided.

Remember the white riot staged by Republican congressional staffers, many of them flown in on Enron jets, to shut down the Florida vote count in 2000?

Despite the usual voter apathy of Americans, the turnout on 2 November is expected to exceed European levels. Will that be because of 9/11 and George Bush's response to it - the provocative policies coming out of the White House

How can we name the Darfur crisis? The US Congress, and now Secretary of State Colin Powell, claim that genocide has occurred in Darfur. The European Union says it is not genocide. And so does the African Union.

Bush administration is poised to steal this election as it did the one in 2000. Thousands of voters, mostly African Americans, are in danger of being illegally disenfranchised by Republican party manipulations.

Radio Interviews by Dennis Bernstein and Kevin Pina

We now need to apply the same passion and determination to battles which, unlike the one against the Iraq war, we can actually win.