The United Steelworkers of America are demanding an investigation into the massive police state that limited the rights of members in Miami protesting the FTAA.

Paramilitaries, Embedded Journalists and Illegal Protests: Think This is Iraq? It's Miami.

The independent commission investigating 911 has backed down from their request that the White House release documents that it had requested. This means that the White House will determine what information it releases to the panel.

John Phalen's essay is long but it has a lot of insight. He connects the use of 911 as a pretext for the rise of the neocons today with past deceptions.

Former 1960s activist Tom Hayden reports on experiences of police repression in Miami during the protests of the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

The opposition to neoliberal policies taken by Brazil and other Mercosur countries prevented the United States from getting its way on the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Walden Bello reports from Miami.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, envisions a united South America that gains economic strength by drawing closer together in trade and bargaining collectively, like the European Union does. Lula wants to create a global coalition speaking for the not-rich countries--reminiscent of the "nonaligned
nations" that decades ago tried to stand between the Cold War's two superpowers. And he wants to push the IMF, the World Bank and the United Nations to become more democratic. Greider and Rapoza comment on developments in Latin America, linking to the FTAA talks.

When David Kelly died it became a huge story in the UK. For example, Prime Minister Tony Blair was questioned very directly at a news conference by a UK reporter who asked if Blair didn't have killed. Meanwhile, in the US when a State Department official dies under mysterious circumstances the matter is buried; i.e., barely reported.