Israeli ambassador to the US called for regime change in Iran an Syria

Almost 200 factories in Argentina have been occupied by its workers, who keep the production a bit like a commune.

American to oversee Iraq oil industry.
The US is preparing to install an American chairman on a planned management team of the Iraqi oil industry, providing further ammunition to critics who have questioned the Bush administration's agenda in the Middle East.

On the mayor of Tokyo, a belicist right-winger who may one day become prime minister.

Brussels is discussing how political power is going to be organized in the future of the European Union.

The US is keeping 'enemy combatants' (note, they do not qualify as prisoners of war) who are 16 years old and younger.

Hans Blix has declared that in his opinion the US has used 'shaky' intelligence (including forged documents) in an effort to prove Iraq had banned weapons.

The US sugar industry is blackmailing the World Health Organization into withdrawing a damning report.

Why Syria is US's new target. An analysis by an ex-embassador of the UK in Syria and Saudi Arabia.

Apparently the White House has ruled out attacking Syria before Bush's attempt at reelection. Hopefully that's true, and hopefully that won't happen even in the dire possibility of a second Dubya term.

Naomi Klein: what is being planned in Iraq is not reconstruction, but robbery.

Suzanne Goldenberg in Bahgdad tells of the chaos reigning there.

Israeli military shoot another foreign pacifist. It's the third in the last month or so.

'We shouldn't tolerate such barbarity'

The press is outraged by Castro's roundup of dissidents

The battle for American science

Creationists, pro-lifers and conservatives now pose a serious threat to research and science teaching in the US, report Oliver Burkeman and Alok Jha

Britain has created a 'baby bond', a savings account that will automatically be opened for every newborn in the UK, to help save for the future.

Uma materia sobre a possibilidade dos servicos secretos russos e americanos terem entrado em conflito para decidir quem ficaria com os arquivos secretos do governo de Saddam Hussein.

An article by Stiglitz on the ruin brought to Russia by neoliberalism.

US forces in Bagdhad seem to be targeting the news media. Three reporters were killed after a tank fired at the hotel where most journalists are staying.

On repression in the UK against anti-war protest.

On the current SARS (deadly pneumonia) outbreak in Canada.

The situation in the Corean peninsula is deteriorating. There may be a war there soon.

An article on the way that the Europeans have historically viewed the Americans.

A second American peace activist was seriously wounded by Israeli troops in Palestine.

On the deteriorating relations between Cuba and the Bush administration.

On how the US is preparing for the battle of Baghdad by learning Israeli strategies used in the invasion of Jenin.

Some criticism about the brutal way used by US soldiers with civilians in Iraq, as opposed to the more measured British soldiers.