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It is reported that the latest increase in oil prices are due to the ongoing conflict in Nigeria . Nigeria is Africa's leading oil producer and is the fifth-largest supplier of oil to the US . It is reported that since the discovery of oil in 1956, Nigeria has made about $400 billion in profits.

Inymedia internet servers in London have been disappeared into U.S. custody, but we don't know where they went or who took them, as the hosting company refuses to tell us.

"The significance of our disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process.

Washington's pressure over Iran's nuclear program is setting the stage for a major confrontation, including a possible military attack--either by Israel or U.S. forces directly. Already a charter member of George W.

Probably drawing inspiration from the influential work of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, European Union is using the same principles to reform its notorious Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

An urgent message from Z, a personal message from Noam Chomsky, and a clarifying comment about Z's financial situation.

At the moment when the prime minister has announced his decision to intensify the war in Iraq and when more British troops may well be sent there, the time has come for new policies to be adopted since we know, in great detail, all the key facts from very authoritative sources.

One of the first victims of the campaign of political reprisals the population met upon suspected Aristide supporters, under the direction of the "freedom fighters" in Gonaives, was the destruction of the Biwo Pwoteksyon Civil or Civil Protection Office.

In the early 90's, Argentina was largely regarded in the mainstream as the poster child for neoliberal globalization.

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers abroad.

Bush declared in his acceptance speech at the Republican convention that he is fighting terrorism abroad "not for pride, not for power," but to protect American lives. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

At the core of the Chechen Problem, and many years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, such factors as oil production, secession, religious fanaticism, ancestral rifts, clan fights and foreign geopolitical interests have been colliding periodically, culminating in the present violence.

After a 'truly historic' agreement, it is now an embarrassing wake-up call for the developing countries.

In what had been touted as Iraq's first democratic election, last week's tumultuous Iraqi National Conference closed with a four-judge panel selecting a list of candidates for the Interim National Council, leaving the hundreds of delegates invited to the conference to approve the decision with only

"If Bravo had been set off in Washington and the fallout headed northeast, everyone from Washington to Boston would be dead": Statement by Senator Tomaki Juda on the 50th Anniversary the H-Bomb Test on Bikini

A couple of months ago Cabinet Minister Tariana Turia did what few imagined she would have the courage to do. The quietly spoken great-grandmother told the Prime Minister she was "getting off the bus."

Tuesday, July 27 seemed like just another typical day around Arafat's compound, where the Palestinian leader has been imprisoned for many long months by Israeli forces after they declared him to be an 'obstacle' and 'irrelevant' to the peace process.

Krauthammer suggests that multilateralism has been an abysmal failure and has only resulted in Iran edging ever-closer to the development of nuclear weapons.

The General Council of the WTO is to meet on 27-29 July 2004 to pick up the negotiations that broke down in Cancun on the Doha Mandate.

A recent investigation into the use of science by the Bush Administration alleges a systematic pattern of suppressing or distorting scientific evidence across a wide range of issues (Union of Concerned Scientists 2004 ).

The battle for Iraq's sovereign future is a battle for the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. As things stand, it appears that victory will go to the side most in tune with the reality of the Iraqi society of today: the leaders of the anti-U.S. resistance.

TV news is the main source of information for about 80 per cent of the population. Yet the quality of what they see and hear is so confused and partial that it is impossible to have a sensible public debate about the reasons for the conflict or how it might be resolved.

Meanwhile, hundreds of billions are being spent for the escalating military costs of occupying a increasingly hostile Iraq.

Along the route of the separation barrier in the West Bank, a new culture is springing up: on one side, soldiers and bulldozers; on the other, Israelis and Palestinians embracing the land and the trees, trying to save them both.

The real crises in Haiti are humanitarian and political. As far as I know, the Marines are not involved in either the humanitarian crises - although certainly they helped bury those drowned last week - or the political ones.

According to the US and British governments, on 30 June the occupation of Iraq will end and "full sovereignty" will pass to a new Iraqi Interim Government (IIG).

Instead of accepting the "anti-globalization" label given them by their critics, they have challenged the terms of the debate: It is not a question of whether globalization will occur, they say, but what kind of globalization we will have.

In Venezuela, the United States government and its representatives have encouraged an unprecedented campaign of incitement to violence and insurrection by the opposition controlled media against the elected government.

The world eventually came to know Dave Dellinger as an activist dedicated to nonviolence. But the path he took had many turns, and at one point, as a student, he was tempted to pick up a gun.

Foaad Khosmood: In your April 2004 American Prospect article("Handle With Care"), you wrote "Iranians fervently wish for change, but not through revolution." Do you believe there is a viable non-revolutionary option toward greater freedom and economic change in Iran? An Interview with Stephen Kinzer