"What was good for our country," a former president of General Motors once declared, "was good for General Motors, and vice versa." GM, which has been losing billions, has announced that it will eliminate 30,000 jobs. Is what's bad for General Motors bad for America?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112505Z.shtml

Hugo Chavez is perhaps the most familiar incarnation of Bolivar's elan vital as he defies the neocolonial policies of the United States, a nation which has supplanted the European colonial empires as looters of Latin American bounty.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_234.shtml


From Information Clearing House

John Bolton, threatened U.N. member states, specifically the 132 developing nations, that if they don't play ball with the United States, Washington may look elsewhere to settle international problems.

http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=16236


From Information Clearing House

It is four years since the fall of the Taleban regime. The United States has spent billions of dollars on its operations in Afghanistan - but what does it have to show for it?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4457876.stm


From Information Clearing House

The CIA planes have been spotted at airports in Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sweden, raising questions whether they are being used to convey suspects subjected to extra-judicial detention and torture.

http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Andre+sprog/English/2005/11/23/164026.htm



Tenn. Office Linked to CIA Renditions:

The law office of Douglas R. Beaty sits in a small business park near the city's more prosperous suburbs. Nothing on the front door says anything about the CIA or airplanes.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/11/23/national/w094209S94.DTL



CIA 'may have flown prisoners across Austria':

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) may have flown detained terrorist suspects across neutral Austrian airspace in 2003, said a newspaper report on Wednesday.

http://tinyurl.com/add6r


From Information Clearing House

There's not an American in sight, but the sprawling Soviet-era facility has become a key focus of a European investigation into allegations the CIA operated secret prisons where suspected terrorists were interrogated.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5436648,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The United Nations envoy who investigates torture allegations said the United States has "something to hide" at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, the German weekly Die Zeit reported in its latest edition.

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-daily/24-11-2005/world/w12.htm


From Information Clearing House

Tony Blair was "doubled crossed" by US President George W Bush's aides in the run-up to the Iraq war, according to the former diplomat at the centre of a political crisis engulfing the White House.

http://tinyurl.com/dqffx


From Information Clearing House

British newspapers Wednesday, November 23, accused their government of threatening to prosecute them if they published a leaked document claiming US President George W. Bush threatened to bomb the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera.

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-11/23/article06.shtml



Qatar shock at al-Jazeera bombing report:

Qataris, including senior officials, reacted with shock on Wednesday to newspaper reports in Britain suggesting that George W Bush, the US president, had discussed bombing the Doha headquarters of the Arabic satellite TV channel al-Jazeera.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/92fad322-5c58-11da-af92-0000779e2340.html



Wife To Sue U.S.:

THE widow of an al-Jazeera journalist killed in Iraq by an American attack is considering suing the US Government.

http://tinyurl.com/dmeso


From Information Clearing House