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Wolfowitz Committee instructed White House to use Iraq/uranium reference

by Jason Leopold

[ july 03 ]

Four senators and a CIA official briefed Jason Leopold on the SOTU reference to Nigerien uranium on condition of anonymity.

The age of consent

review by Noel Rooney

Man the barricades!

Three tests of US trade policy on intellectual property rights

by Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite

[ july 03 ]

"The ruthless mercantilist accumulation and control of knowledge assets by the US comes at the expense of the basic human rights that Eleanor Roosevelt helped to fight for and win in the United Nations."

Happy 40th anniversary

by John Saltford

[ july 03 ]

Looking back, it is hard to imagine the crudely orchestrated Indonesian occupation of West Papua escaped universal ridicule and condemnation.

How to stop America

by George Monbiot

[ june 03 ]

In an essay based on his book 'The Age of Consent', George Monbiot launches a manifesto for a new world order.

America in autumn

by Gregory Whitehead

[ may 03 ]

What do the Baader-Meinhof gang, Elvis, Che Guevara and the Total Information Office have in common?

The guaranteed failure of the Road Map

by Tanya Reinhart

[ may 03 ]

"The US is ruled today by hawks whose vision is an unending war. There is no basis for the belief that the US will allow anyone to force Israel to make any concessions."

The Project for the New American Century, 9-11 and the so-called "war on terror"

by Maria Ryan

[ may 03 ]

"[A]n earthquake of the magnitude of 9/11 can shift the tectonic plates of international politics", according to Condoleeza Rice, and the US has to figure out how to "capitalise on these opportunities".

Islamic law and Genghis Khan's code

by Joe Palmer

[ may 03 ]

"The problem that Genghis Khan had to solve was how to govern his conquered peoples, much as Douglas MacArthur, another single-minded, self-righteous autocrat, had to govern the Japanese after World War II."

The age of unilateral war: Iraq, the United States and the end of the European coalition

by Gabriel Kolko

[ may 03 ]

"The world is increasingly multipolar, and the US' desire to maintain absolute military superiority over the world is a chimera."