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Associated Press By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON - The nation’s top climate scientists are giving “An Inconvenient Truth,”

Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.

The former vice president’s movie — replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing [...]

Mother Jones, CA COMMENTARY: He’s betting that Americans will prefer to live in a Green Zone world–with all the fictions that go with it.

By Tom Engelhardt

As every political junky in the country now knows, just before finding himself not indicted by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Karl Rove went to a fundraiser in New Hampshire and launched the [...]

Media Monitors Network, CA

by James Zogby

(Monday June 26 2006)

“Insecurity runs deep in America today. Despite macro indicators which point to a relatively strong economy, polls show that most US voters are insecure about their future. Only 29% say that the country is on the right track and many indicate concern with job loss.”

While most contests [...]

Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog, WA

That is the signature line of the populist candidate for president of Mexico. The July 2 election in that country will be pivotal in terms of stemming the tide of illegal immigration. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has promised a New Deal style public works program and protection for the Mexican [...]

Guardian Unlimited, UK

To those who think the left and the right are as bad as each other, two words: Ann Coulter.

Melissa McEwan

There’s a truly insidious myth in American politics that goes something like this: Both sides are just as bad.

The “sides” to which this assertion refers are, of course, the left and the right, and [...]

Guardian Unlimited, UK

The US must take three basic steps to defuse this confrontation. The consequences of not doing so could be grim

Noam Chomsky Monday June 19, 2006

The urgency of halting the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and moving toward their elimination, could hardly be greater. Failure to do so is almost certain to lead to grim consequences, [...]

Guardian Unlimited World Latest

After three inmates killed themselves, the Pentagon declared the suicides an act of ‘asymmetric warfare’, banned the media and went on a PR offensive. But as despair grows within the camp, so too does outrage mount at its brutal and secretive regime

David Rose Sunday June 18, 2006 The Observer

In Guantanamo Bay’s Alpha Block, the [...]