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Bush Continues To Alienate World Bill Gallagher March 15, 2005 DETROIT - President George W. Bush has created an atmosphere of unparalleled distrust toward the United States as people from places around the globe now shudder when he makes increasingly frequent declarations about his "vision" for the world. From avowed enemies to longtime allies and even our closest neighbors, open hostility toward the United States is epidemic.
People who once looked toward America with admiration and (…)

By Richard Waddington
GENEVA - The United States, usually a finger-pointer on human rights, could end up in the dock itself over reports of torture and abuse in its war on terror when the United Nations begins a worldwide scrutiny this week.
Activists, such as the New York-based Human Rights Watch, are urging members of the Commission on Human Rights to condemn Washington for mistreatment of prisoners detained abroad.
If any such move emerges during the commission’s annual session, (…)

The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on the Bush Administration’s request for an additional $82 billion to fund the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, perhaps as early as Tuesday, March 15, 2005. Every day the U.S. spends over $200 million of working peoples’ money to fund war and occupation in Iraq. 100,000 Iraqis have died. More than 1,500 U.S. soldiers have been killed and thousands more wounded. There should not be one more dime spent on Bush’s criminal wars, occupations (…)

by CHRISTINE FIORDALIS
Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is again on the table in Congress, this time in the budget bill. How many times must Americans say it? Leave our wilderness alone!
Human beings need wilderness and open space. Some years ago, a friend teaching at a rural Michigan campus invited high schoolers from Detroit to study ecology. At first, the students were frightened and hesitant but the woods slowly drew them out. They found things, camped out, (…)

by Wayne Besen
There must me 10,000 clothing designers within a five-block radius of Madison Square Garden, in Manhattan’s Garment District. Yet, the New York Knickerbockers, who play in MSG, have the ugliest uniforms in the National Basketball Association. They are drab white rags with screaming, loud orange numbers. It looks like the same design firm that created the lovely uniforms for the Lincoln Tunnel traffic cops made them.
Attention! Would someone please create new uniforms for (…)

by Niko Kyriakou
The Fifth World Conference on Women drew to a close with a reaffirmation by ministers, government delegates, first ladies and non-governmental representatives from around the world that ’’women’s rights are human rights’’. But for many who attended the two-week conference, ’’reaffirmation’’ was not enough.
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11 (IPS) - The Fifth World Conference on Women drew to a close Friday with a reaffirmation by the 80 ministers, 1,800 government delegates, (…)

by Matthew Rothschild
On March 11, the U.S. Senate passed the bankruptcy bill that will fill the coffers of the credit card companies while bleeding consumers dry.
The bill passed by a whopping 74 to 25 margin, with eighteen Democratic Senators going over to the dark side.
Here are the spineless 18:
Max Baucus, Montana.
Evan Bayh, Indiana.
Joe Biden, Delaware.
Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico.
Robert Byrd, West Virginia.
Thomas Carper, Delaware.
Kent Conrad, North Dakota. (…)

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fayetteville, New York City, Chicago, New Paltz, your city!
San Francisco
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition demonstration in San Francisco has gained growing support in the recent days and weeks. Tens of thousands will march.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 has called “stop work meetings” to shut down Bay Area and other West Coast ports in solidarity with the International Day of Protests. Labor will be sponsoring a pre-march rally (…)

By H.D.S. Greenway
ON ONE thing the Italian government and the White House agree. The killing of intelligence officer Nicola Calipari and the wounding of journalist Giuliana Sgrena by American soliders was a ’’horrific accident." But beyond that there is little agreement as to what happened.
The Americans say the car the Italians were traveling in was going 60 miles an hour. The Italians say it was going 25. The Americans say they gave hand signals, flashed lights, and fired warning (…)

by Paul Andrews
For all the news about phone companies, cable providers and Web portals bringing television to the Internet, a new Seattle-based Web service is helping provide an early glimpse of what TV could look like on the Web.
Although only a few weeks old and still in beta, CommonBits.org is drawing on powerful new downloading, indexing and newsfeed technology under an activist agenda to help independent audio, video and other media find wider distribution and their natural (…)