The general impoverishment of the public realm has produced for adults an amazing amount of pervasive situational loneliness. Despite the fact that so many Americans own a car there is no place to go, at least no places of casual socializing unrelated to commerce. So the chat rooms and listserves of the Internet are supposed to take the place of actually being somewhere.

illegality of the USA

Man fined $10,000 for peaceful work in Iraq.

Vanessa Hradsky reports on the collapse of the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Cancun, Mexico. See other artcles from the latest issue of the New York Indypendent at http://www.indypendent.org/webnews/index.php .

If Arnold wins, it's hasta la vista baby, to the $9 billion owed to the state of California by Enron and the other electricity barons.

Israel’s Ariel Sharon is a law under himself. The UN, too, refuses to take him on for his criminal misdeeds. He belongs in the dock, next to Slobodan Milosevic, at The Hague, standing trial for War Crimes he has committed in Jordan, the occupied territories and Lebanon. Instead, he is invited to the White House for a photo op and tea.

Reports a study showing the effect of wathcing/reading various media outlets on having misperceptions about the Iraq war. 80% of Fox News watchers but only 23% of PBS/NPR watchers have at least one major misperception about Iraq. Article includes link to full study.

1,200 Weapons Inspectors Spent 90 Days in Iraq. And what did they find? No Weapons of Mass Destruction. Rupert Cornwall and Paul Waugh report.