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March 19, 2006— GOP-connected contractor Custer Battles e-mail talks of Filipino house maids, fashion queens (in the manner of former FEMA Nordstrom shirt aficionado Michael Brown), and, more importantly, raising a $100 million fund to pursue non-government contracting work with "a lot less risk." Later, Custer Battles did attempt to negotiate a $100 million infusion from an unknown firm in Dubai after receiving $15 million in seed money from the benefactor. Custer Battles, Inc. was formed (…)

2/22/03 "Wisdom" from Unitary Dicktator Bush ..... " Military action is the nation’s last option (Sydney Morning Herald ) ........ 2/28/03 "War will bring peace. " ( Sydney Morning Herald ) ....... 8/30/04 "Iraq Success Catastrophic " : Bush ( The Australian )....... 3/19/05 "The victory of freedom in Iraq is strengthening a new ally on the war on terror." ...... 12/07/05 Bush : "Amazing progress" ( Al-jazeerah ) ..... 1/11/06 Bush : Turmoil in Iraq Part of Progress ( (…)

By Philip White
(EUNN) London - French union leaders threaten to strike over a contested jobs plan for youths that sparked violent protests in Paris over the weekend.
French union leaders have given Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin until tomorrow night to withdraw the plan that would provide jobs for the young that critics of the jobs plan see as a reduction of older workers rights.
Speaking on France-Inter radio, Bernard Thibault, head of the CGT union, said, "If the government (…)

by UNEF (National Union of Students of France)
Monsieur Prime Minister, revoke your CPE [Contrat Première Embauche — First Employment Contract]!
Once again, the demonstrations against the CPE were an enormous success. More than one and half million people poured into the streets to make the Prime Minister understand that they want the revocation of the CPE, period.
Demonstrators in many marches exceeded 10,000, nay 100,000: more than 350,000 people in Paris in fact, 130,000 in (…)

Despite U.S. efforts, the Venezuelan leader is winning friends across Latin America.
It was yet another public relations coup for Venezuela: Vila Isabel, the samba club sponsored mainly by the Venezuelan government, won the parade competition in Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval last week. A float with a giant likeness of Simon Bolivar, combined with thousands of ornately costumed participants parading down the avenue, trumpeted the winning theme: Latin American unity.
U.S. Secretary of State (…)

Carla Del Ponte Addresses Goldman Sachs on Justice and Profits
November 20, 2005 GlobalResearch.ca On October 6, 2005, Carla Del Ponte, prosecutor of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), gave a talk before an audience at Goldman Sachs in London that throws light on the role of the ICTY as well as the character and qualities of Ms. Del Ponte and her efforts. [1]
Speaking before this business audience, Ms. Del Ponte emphasized that the ICTY and other UN (…)

October 18, 2005
Last summer, almost the entire political spectrum in the Western world joined in a chorus of self-flagellation on the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. The dominant theme was "nostra culpa": "we" let it happen, "we" didn’t want to know about it, and "we" mustn’t let it happen again.
Dear reader, who are "we" in this case? How in the world could "we" (you and I) have known or done anything about this at the time? And in fact, how much do "we" really know about (…)

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies. [includes rush (…)

It was a tale of two cities.
The city that sees Slobodan Milosevic as a Serb hero, who did everything to defend his people and who was finally and, brutally, killed by his opponents.
And the city that sees the former president as the epitome of evil best forgotten and consigned to the history books.
Under the leaden skies, Mr Milosevic’s supporters gathered in their thousands outside the federal parliament building.
Mostly in their 40s and 50s, they carried portraits of their hero (…)

CURITIBA (BRAZIL), 17 March 2006 - United Nations talks on the global trade in genetically modified (GM) foods and crops ended here today with an agreement on the labelling of GM grains traded worldwide.
Friends of the Earth welcomed the agreement as a "small step forward" but attacked the biotech industry and the trade interests of a few countries for blocking progress towards better protection for developing countries and the environment.
The biotech industry consistently opposed clear (…)