Last year witnessed a decisive turn in Latin America. A growing number of countries in the region now seem determined to pursue their interests, regardless of what the United States desires.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11447.htm

Russia is being universally condemned by the Bush Regime and European leaders for the heinous crime of….practicing hard-nosed market capitalism. And for – horror of horrors! – mixing business and politics. Whoever heard of such a thing? Oh, those Scythian savages!

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=385&Itemid=1


From Information Clearing House

In light of recent revelations concerning the US government's human rights abuses, the statement smacks of the pot calling the kettle black.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_382.shtml


From Information Clearing House

The Bush administration has succeeded in making the United States one of the most feared and hated countries in the world. The talent of these guys is unbelievable. They have even succeeded at alienating Canada. I mean, that takes genius, literally.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11446.htm

As America continues to tighten its grip on the world’s dwindling hydrocarbon resources, we can expect that the successes of the Iraqi resistance will offer a model to the other disparate groups who have no chance of beating the United States in open battle, but hope to bring the empire to its knees by making the costs of war too great to sustain.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11441.htm

Democracy Now!

Former NSA intelligence agent Russell Tice condemns reports that the Agency has been engaged in eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without court warrants. Tice has volunteered to testify before Congress about illegal black ops programs at the NSA. Tice said, “The freedom of the American people cannot be protected when our constitutional liberties are ignored and our nation has decayed into a police state."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11442.htm

In central Florida, Wal-Mart workers are fighting, and sometimes winning, campaigns using collective action to solve both shop floor and larger industry-wide problems.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010306LA.shtml

Robert Parry writes that George W. Bush's dysfunctional relationship with the truth seems to be shaped by two complementary factors - a personal compulsion to say whatever makes him look good at that moment and a permissive environment that rarely holds him accountable for his lies.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010306Q.shtml