contributions

by Andre Bouny
1) Historical context - Decision.
2) Methods - Amounts - Composing - Equivalences.
3) Stability - Food chain - Entering in the cell.
4) Visible and invisible consequences - Diseases and photos.
5) “Redress” - Scientific proof - American Constitution - Multinational companies - Proceedings
This succinct text enlightened with photos by Alexis Duclos, is the content of the conference by André Bouny for launching of International Support Committee in aid of Agent (…)

by Jesse Jackson
Here we go again. The administration says ’’regime change’’ is needed. Warnings are issued about the threat posed by the ’’madman’’ who leads the oil-rich country. Alarming intelligence estimates are leaked about nuclear weapons programs. The vice president warns ’’monumental consequences’’ if the alleged efforts to develop nuclear weapons are continued. Neoconservatives call for military action. Administration operatives express scorn for international monitoring. The (…)

By Charlie Cray
While it’s hard to see it here in the U.S., "trickle- down" economics is beginning to be confronted by popular democratic movements, which are bubbling up in communities across the country as well as all over the world in countries like Ghana and Bolivia, where fierce resistance to the privatization of water not only pushed big water multinationals like Bechtel out of the country , but led the government of Bolivia to begin pushing the world’s international financial (…)

Democracy Now! Interview with James Ridgeway and Sidney Schanberg
AMY GOODMAN: Nat Hentoff is still writing for the Village Voice, at this moment, at least. Jim Ridgeway now joins us in the studio in Washington, D.C. In addition to being the paper’s former Washington correspondent, he is the author of many books. His latest is called The Five Unanswered Questions About 9/11. Welcome to Democracy Now!, Jim Ridgeway.
JAMES RIDGEWAY: Hi, Amy.
AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. (…)

By Scott Laderman
Mr. Laderman is Assistant Professor of History, University of Minnesota, Duluth.
By now we have all seen the analogies drawn between the present war in Iraq and the war in Vietnam decades ago. Some of these analogies have been insightful. Some, to put it charitably, have not. Nearly all, however, have focused on how the United States entered and fought both wars. Little attention has been heeded to what the Vietnam war might tell us about the United States getting out (…)

By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
His father and oldest sister were farming sugar beets in the fields of Hamilton, Mont., and his mother was cooking tortillas when 6-year-old Ignacio Piña saw plainclothes authorities burst into his home.
"They came in with guns and told us to get out," recalls Piña, 81, a retired railroad worker in Bakersfield, Calif., of the 1931 raid. "They didn’t let us take anything," not even a trunk that held birth certificates proving that he and his five siblings were (…)

by Elizabeth de la Vega
The latest in a parade of horrors emanating from the Bush administration appeared Thursday in the form of a revelation buried in papers filed in federal court by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in his investigation into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, now under indictment on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, told the Grand Jury Fitzgerald convened that President Bush (…)

By DAVID VEST
A Washington press corps that stood idly by while Bush and Cheney plundered the country, wrecked the environment, spied on Americans without a warrant, tortured civilians and lied the country into a war that will only get worse, woke up one morning and collectively decided: "Let’s all play Get Cynthia!"
Let’s get her for being too outspoken, bringing up the wrong issue at the wrong time, failing to get with the program, becoming a distraction, leaving House Majority Leader (…)

by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?
The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been (…)

By LIEUT. GENERAL GREG NEWBOLD (RET.)
Two senior military officers are known to have challenged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the planning of the Iraq war. Army General Eric Shinseki publicly dissented and found himself marginalized. Marine Lieut. General Greg Newbold, the Pentagon’s top operations officer, voiced his objections internally and then retired, in part out of opposition to the war. Here, for the first time, Newbold goes public with a full-throated critique:
In 1971, (…)