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What is possible is just about always more than anyone expects, it can even be more than some dare hope. When Argentina's once-wealthy economy imploded after years of free-market pillaging, foreign investors and the national elite pulled $40 billion out of the country in the middle of the night while the government froze individual savings accounts. Millions of people were financially ruined in the country with Latin America’s largest middle class. Capitalism was breaking its own rules. Free ...

Pat Robertson is in Israel and rallying both his anti-Jewish right-wing followers along with Likud followers who seem to like him solely for his religious hatred towards Mulsims. Netanyahu even appeared on the 700 club and they both engaged in a pretty sickening few minutes of mutual ass kissing. Religious Zionists and Evangelical bible thumpers seem to have more in common than anti-anti-Zionists admit; perhaps the use of the term ZioNazi is not far off mark when it comes to religious Zionist...

After three weeks of complete silence followed by death claims on two separate Arabic web sites, few in Italy dared hope the two abducted aid workers would resurface from their captivity unharmed and smiling....

MIAMI—Rains caused by Tropical Storm Jeanne have resulted in widespread damage in northwest Haiti, as well as Florida. The death toll in Haiti has been astounding. At least 1,500 people have been confirmed dead in the city of Gonaives, and nearby smaller towns, and rural areas. Another 1,000 are missing, many of them presumed dead. An unknown number have been swept to the sea by the floods. About 250,000 people have been made homeless. The reason for this devastation is not “natural.” I...

BLACK people intimidated at the polling booth. Voting machines that register ballots wrongly. Welcome to the disaster-waiting-to-happen that is the US presidential election of November 2004. An investigation by the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) into voter intimidation recounts a catalogue of incidents designed to suppress the black vote....

An Israeli aircraft has fired two missiles at a group of Palestinian resistance fighters in the northern Gaza Strip, raising to six the number of Palestinians killed on Sunday....

America's prison camp at Guantánamo Bay holds detainees in extreme conditions. But David Rose, in this extract from his remarkable new book, says the intelligence gathered has failed to stop any terror attacks....

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Police stormed a radio station and arrested Haiti's Senate president and two other members of the Lavalas Family party of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide after a day-long standoff on Saturday....

On September 5, 2004 the Florida Sun Sentinel published an article by Alva James-Johnson entitled Haiti's Fragile Peace. Having recently returned from a trip to Haiti with a group of human rights monitors, we read the article with great interest. Haiti's Fragile Peace is another in a long line of articles published in the mainstream media that portray the conflict in Haiti as a chaotic power struggle between equally violent rival factions over which the interim government is attempting to ga...

Confronting a deepening disaster in Iraq, US President Bush has attempted to deflect public attention by pointing to Afghanistan and its presidential poll on October 9 as a beacon of light. Bush’s loyal ally in Australia, John Howard, who is up for reelection on the same day, has also hailed the Afghanistan ballot as a success story, demonstrating that the US-led intervention has brought “democracy” to the country....