Actor Sean Penn has published a one-page ad in the NYT about the cost of dissent in the US, and his own experience speaking out against Bush's policies.

Some candid comments of Mr. Wolfowitz on the real reasons for the war in Iraq.

Some candid comments of Mr. Wolfowitz on the real reasons for the war in Iraq.

A series of reports on how Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Kosovo are now, a few years after foreign military intervention.

On the differing body counts of the war in Iraq.

The US finally finds evidences of WMD (Weapons of mass destruction) -- in Maryland...

The US is putting more pressure on Iran. The Pentagon has a plan of regime change in Iran, by overt and covert means.

An article commenting on US's biggest defense budget ($400 billion) since the cold war.

An article commenting on US's biggest defense budget ($400 billion) since the cold war.

An article on how the Iraq conflict accelerated the crisis in the IMF, World Bank and WTO.

An article by George Monbiot about a Belgian court which may prosecute the US general in charge of Iraq, over war crimes.

On an American conservative commentator. It also discusses how the Bush administration is not a freak event, but is backed by a large part of the media and public.

An article on the real dimension of the problem of overfishing in all the oceans.

Clare Short, the international development secretary of the UK, has resigned over Britain's handling of Iraq.

Sobre o numero de mortes por tiroteio no Rio: mais de 100 bandidos em um mes, e 71 policiais no ano ate agora. Isso e' guerra civil!

Iraq body count is an organization which keeps track of civilian deaths during the war and in its aftermath. It is challenging the Pentagon over the number of civilians being killed by cluster bombs. Right now the death count is at least 2200.

The two faces of Rumsfeld

2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea
2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change

An article (with links) on software for social interactions over the web, e.g. weblogs, teleconferencing, etc.

An article criticizing the methodology the World Bank uses to claim that poverty is decreasing in the world.

The US is paying a company to gather all types of information on citizens of Latin America.

One more jornalist killed, this time a British in the Gaza strip, killed by an Israeli tank shell.

An article reminding us that it's already possible to radically change human nature through genetic engineering. This is bound to happen sooner or later, and will make the debate about cloning seem very silly indeed.