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April 2006

Sunday, April 30

  • Bush Challenges Hundreds of Laws; President Cites Powers of His Office
  • Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner -- President Not Amused?

    Saturday, April 29

  • 300,000 March in Manhattan at Anti-War Protest
  • FBI Investigated 3,501 People Without Warrants
  • Meet Bush's Latest Enemy in the War on Iraq: The Raging Grannies of Tucson, Arizona
  • Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Plant Seeds of Hope in Secret Garden
  • An Invisible Army of Workers Strikes for the Right to Be Seen
  • Darfur: UN Talks But Won't Act on Genocide, Say Activists
  • Canada Backpedals on Kyoto Promises
  • Submarine Sonar Suspected in Mystery Death of 400 Dolphins

    Friday, April 28

  • Bush Courts Allies Rich in Oil, Human Rights Violations
  • Granny Peace Brigade: Not Guilty
  • Iraq War Set To Be More Expensive Than Vietnam
  • Prosecutor Weighs Charges Against Rove in Leak Case
  • Report: Sonar May Have Caused Whale Stranding
  • Pentagon Bills Injured Soldiers $1.2 Million
  • Cindy Sheehan Visits Canada, Urges Support


    Thursday, April 27

  • Gorbachev Urges G8 to Back Solar Power: Not Oil, Nuclear
  • Asylum to Batterered Women Left in Congressional Limbo
  • Hundreds of Detainees Abused, Report Finds
  • CIA Warns Ex-Agents over Talking to Media
  • Funding Boost Possible for Warhead Program
  • Impunity Endures Two Years After Abu Ghraib
  • Oxfam Withdraws Backing for Trade Deal Talks
  • Guantanamo Bay Prisoner 'Tried to Commit Suicide a Dozen Times'
  • Guffaws About a Fox Guarding the White House
  • Visit by Rumsfeld, Rice Sets Off Criticism in Iraq
  • Immigrant Boycott Aims to "Close" US Cities


    Wednesday, April 26

  • Hell on Earth: Chernobyl, 20 Years On
  • UN Condemned for Promoting 'Peaceful' Nuclear Technology
  • Iran Threatens Global Retaliation if US Attacks
  • Watchdogs Say House Ethics Reform Is a "Scam"
  • Banning Photos of Soldiers' Funerals Added to Public's 'Distrust' of Bush Regime
  • California Congressman Revels in His Ultra-Liberal Rating
  • One 'Granny' Dissatisfied With Disorderly Conduct Trial
  • Judge Nixes U.S. Bid for Secrecy in Oregon Suit


    Tuesday, April 25

  • Big Pharma Generic Drug Payoff Draws Government Interest
  • World Bank Accused of Lying over Funding to Fight Malaria
  • As Gas Prices Climb, Wind Power Wins Over New Fans
  • Rich Nations Use IMF-World Bank Meet to Advance Own Agenda
  • Shell Urged to Abandon $20bn Siberian Pipeline That Could Drive Whale Species to Extinction
  • Venezuela Plans More Oil Discounts
  • Associates Say CIA Officer Not Leak Source


    Monday, April 24

  • US Contractors Violate Human-Trafficking Laws on Iraq Bases
  • Six 'Green Nobels' Awarded Goldman Environmental Prize Today
  • Human Trafficking is 'Slavery That Shames World'
  • CIA Spy Speaks Out: No WMDs in Iraq Was Not an 'Intelligence Failure'
  • Democrats Say Lieberman Too Close to Bush
  • Climate Change Forces Plants to Search for Better Places to Live
  • TV Turnoff Week Comes with a Strong Commercial-Free Message
  • Bush Faces Growing Dissent From Republicans on Climate Change


    Sunday, April 23

  • Nuclear Power Revival? Chernobyl Sends a Chill Warning
  • UK Government Lawyers: Support for Bush Iran Attack Would Be Illegal
  • Earth Day: How To Go Green At Home and Work
  • Last Rites for Shrivelling Dead Sea
  • Immigrant Workers Find Support in a Growing Network of Assistance Centers
  • Crumbling Chernobyl Shelter Poses Danger


    Saturday, April 22

  • Protests Force Bush to Relocate Hoover Meeting
  • Condoleezza Rice Leaked Info to Lobbyist on Trial
  • CIA Officer Sacked for Leaking Detention-Site Secrets to Media
  • CIA Warned Bush of No Weapons in Iraq: Retired Official


    Friday, April 21

  • Granny Peace Brigade Goes to Trial for Iraq War Protest
  • Coke Slammed at Shareholders Meeting for Practices in India
  • U.S. Tells IMF to Butt Out of Health Care Issue
  • British Brigadier Attacks America's John Wayne Generals
  • Sweden Goes for Green as Nordics Mull Energy Future
  • When Home is a Blighted Land: Tales from Chernobyl
  • Play Based on Palestinian Activist's Life Barred from New York
  • IMF, World Bank and Critics Gear Up for Meetings
  • Flowers Used to Protest War
  • The One Certainty About Iraq: Spiraling Costs for Americans
  • Iran Still Years Away from Having Nukes: US Intelligence Chief


    Thursday, April 20

  • China, Iran, Saudi, US Main Executioners: Amnesty
  • Patriot Act: Muslim Charities Shut Down, Halliburton Goes Free
  • Iraq War Costs Approach $10 Billion a Month
  • Mexican Consumers Plan 'Great American Boycott'
  • McCain's Support of War Looms as Barrier to Presidential Hopes
  • Study Faults US Health Effort in Iraq, Afghanistan
  • 'Piggy' Gets Chop at Last in Revamp of White House
  • Blair and Straw at Odds over US Action in Iran


    Wednesday, April 19

  • The Worst President in History
  • Global Warming Hits Canada's Remotest Arctic Lands"
  • Rumsfeld Linked to Guantanamo Torture
  • Scientists Condemn US as Emissions of Greenhouse Gases Hit Record Level
  • Millions of Refugees are Hidden Victims of the West's War on Terror, Warns UN
  • Fallout from Chernobyl Will Cause 100,000 Deaths, Says Greenpeace
  • One-Woman Protest Helps Halt Huge Indian Dam Project


    Tuesday, April 18

  • Secret National Archives Pact Let C.I.A. Withdraw Public Documents
  • American Medical Association Study: Health Insurers Are Near-Monopolies
  • UK Scientists Attack Oil Firms' Role in Huge Arctic Project
  • Rumsfeld's Fall Drags Hawks in Its Wake
  • Death Squad Allegations Threaten to Derail Bush's Last Latin Ally
  • Baghdad Street Battle Smacks of Open Civil War
  • Greenpeace Rejects Grossly Under-Estimated Chernobyl Toll
  • India: Hunger Strike Ends as Court Rules for Locals in Dam Dispute


    Monday, April 17

  • Iraq's Political Crisis Deepens over Leadership Squabble
  • The Great Betrayal: Pro-Hunting Japanese Seize Control of Whaling Commission
  • Rumsfeld's Fate up to Cheney
  • Rwanda Survivors Say Hollywood Has Got It Wrong
  • U.S. to Investigate Deaths Related to 2 Battles in Afghanistan
  • Justices Reject Gitmo Detainees' Appeal
  • Taxes Flatten but Deep Pockets Still Bulge


    Sunday, April 16

  • US Firms Suspected of Bilking Iraq Funds
  • Scientists Say They're Being Gagged By Bush
  • So How Close is a Showdown Over Iran?
  • US Farm Subsidies Hurting Africa's Development
  • Gaza on Brink of Implosion as Aid Cut-Off Starts to Bite
  • US Plots ‘New Liberation of Baghdad’


    Saturday, April 15

  • US Strike on Iran: Fallout Around the World Would Be Grim
  • Documents Link Rumsfeld to Prisoner's Interrogation
  • Britain Took Part in Mock Iran Invasion
  • Massive New Embassy in Iraq Flaunts US Power, Critics Say
  • Neil Young, Son of Famed Reporter, Records "Impeach the President" Song
  • For Immigrants and Business, Rift on Protests
  • McDonald's Accused of 'Acting Like the Taliban'


    Friday, April 14

  • Spare the Taxpayer, Spur the Economy, Save the Planet
  • More Retired Generals Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation
  • To Battle Stations! To Battle Stations!
  • AOL Blocks Critics' E-Mails
  • Indigenous Languages in Final Throes
  • Seymour Hersh: The Reporter Whose Scoops Give the Bush Administration Sleepless Nights
  • US Fast Foods Get Supersized Fat
  • Iran's AIDS-Prevention Program Among World's Most Progressive
  • US Blocks UN Criticism of Israel's 'Excessive Use of Force'
  • Florida Councilman Won't Swear Support for US
  • Scientist Issues Grim Warning on Global Warming


    Thursday, April 13

  • US Secrets for Sale Outside Bagram Airbase
  • Analysts Say a Nuclear Iran Is Years Away
  • Colombia: the Real Victim in Failed War on Drugs
  • In New Orleans, a Big Green Opportunity is Wasted, Environmentalists Say
  • First Democrat to Announce Candidacy for President on Monday
  • British Officer Jailed over Iraq Refusal
  • New Military Offensive Against Rumsfeld
  • US Drops Library Gag Order in Patriot Act Dispute'
  • Capital Punishment in Iraq Seen Simply As Death Not Justice
  • Americans Wary of Action on Iran, Gloomy on Iraq, Poll Shows
  • Sheehan Returns to Protest Near Bush Ranch


    Wednesday, April 12

  • US Shelved Evidence Discounting Iraq's WMD: Report
  • Archives OK'd Removing Records, Kept Quiet
  • What Game Were They At? 'Wash Post' Deaf to Boos for Cheney
  • US Like Nazis: British Iraq Refusnik
  • Iran Showdown Tests Power of "Israel Lobby"
  • Tehran's Triumphalism Plays into Hands of US Hawks
  • Investors Target Hershey Over Child Labor on Cocoa Farms
  • Deaths of U.S. Soldiers Climb Again in Iraq
  • Planning the US 'Long War' on Terror


    Tuesday, April 11

  • Phone-Jamming Scheme in 2002 Election Points to White House
  • Two Million Join Protests as Immigrant Debate Grips US
  • Native Americans Want 'Bunker Buster' Test Stopped
  • Climate Change Shattering Marine Food Chain
  • U.S. Public Backs More Humanitarian Aid
  • Diversity of Species Faces 'Catastrophe' from Climate Change
  • Activist was Unlawfully Killed in Israel, Says Inquest Jury


    Monday, April 10

  • Three-Star Marine Corps General Wants Rumsfeld Out
  • Across the U.S., Growing Rallies for Immigration
  • US Propaganda Magnifies Zarqawi Threat: Report
  • Israel to Boycott Inquest into Death of British Peace Activist Shot in Gaza
  • Chirac Ditches Jobs Law after Protests
  • Bush Critics Alarmed over Reports of Possible Strike on Iran
  • The Idea of US Nuclear Attack on Iran is Just Nuts, Says Straw
  • Venezuela's Chavez Threatens to Boot US Envoy
  • The Trailer Park HQ Where the 'Long War' is Being Waged
  • Body Shop's Popularity Plunges after L'Oreal Sale


    Sunday, April 9

  • Iraq Findings Leaked by Cheney's Aide Were Disputed
  • U.S. Study Paints Somber Portrait of Iraqi Discord
  • Abortion Ban Foes Petition for a Choice
  • Vermont Democrats Urge Bush Impeachment
  • Stars Take the Shine Off Hillary's Bid
  • Mother's Plea for Justice for Her Slaughtered Son
  • Opportunity, Cubed, for World's Organic Growers


    Saturday, April 8

  • Army of the Poor Marches Latin America Further to Left
  • Leak-Hating President As Leaker-In-Chief?
  • Libby Testimony Shows a White House Pattern of Intelligence Leaks
  • Force-Feeding an End to Guantanamo Dissent
  • Stop 'Poaching' Doctors, WHO Tells Rich Countries
  • Many More Join Protest and Hunger Strike over Indian Dam Project
  • US Considers Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Iran
  • Washington Cuts All Aid to Palestinian Authority
  • And Now the News... Or Is It an Ad?


    Friday, April 7

  • US Quits UN Human Rights Council Race, Possibly Fearing Defeat
  • New Fuel Standards for Trucks Challenged
  • Representative Louise Slaughter Tries to Get Colleagues to Post Corruption Report Online
  • Questioner Sharply Criticizes President Bush at Appearance
  • President Bush, 2003: 'Leaks of Classified Information Are a Bad Thing'
  • McDonald's Is Super-Sizing Destruction of Amazonia: Greenpeace
  • New Findings, Old Questions on U.S. Secret Flights, Torture
  • German Inquiry to Probe Iraq War, CIA Links
  • Campaigner Faces Jail for Anti-war Tea Party Outside Parliament


    Thursday, April 6

  • Three Years On, Congressional Debate Over Iraq Policy?
  • Report Faults Video Reports Shown as News
  • Scooter Libby Says Bush Authorized Leaks
  • Scientists Say Planned Nevada Blast A Part of Nuke Testing
  • Iraqi Says Visit by Two Diplomats Backfired
  • UK Resident Refuses to Pay Income Tax; Says 'The War is Illegal. I Can't Pay for a Government Killing Machine'
  • Argentina and Uruguay Shun US Military Academy, School of the Americas
  • Helen and Sylvia, the New Face of Terrorism
  • Air Pollution Cuts Eight Months off Life Span
  • Khadr Vows Boycott as Shouts Rock U.S. Court


    Wednesday, April 5

  • 24 Wisconsin Communities Vote For Iraq Pullout
  • Embracing Cheap Workers, Ignoring Their Welfare
  • Rich Gain Most from Last Tax Cut, Study Says
  • I Will Not Be Forced Out by US and UK, Says Iraqi PM
  • France's Political Crisis Grows as 3 Million Take to Streets
  • Evangelicals Rally Their Flocks Behind Israel
  • Shooting of British Cameraman by Israeli Soldier Cold-Blooded Murder, Inquest Told
  • Canned! Food Firms Bale Out of Whaling in Face of Global Consumer Protest
  • Revealed: The Plight of Prisoners Caught Up in US Renditions
  • UN, Groups Urge Action to Save Landmines' 20,000 Annual Victims
  • The Big Melt Coming Faster Than Expected
  • Government Watchdog Criticizes Bush's AIDS Plan


    Tuesday, April 4

  • Groups Say Tests Show Contamination Near New Orleans
  • Senior China Official Urges Cut in US Debt Holding
  • Food Companies Criticized Over Health Commitments
  • Bush's War Hawks Edged Out of the Nest
  • Farm Workers Target McDonald's, Suppliers Over Wages
  • Gospel According to Bono Proves to be a Hit Among US Churchgoers
  • DeLay to Leave Congress, Officials Report


    Monday, April 3

  • Sustainable Seafood Casts a Wider Net
  • Growing Force of Online Activism
  • Is U.S. Planning More Attacks on Shiite Militias?
  • Return My Work, Says Guantánamo Poet
  • Former US General Says Rumsfeld Should Quit Over Iraq
  • US 'Intoxicated' by Power: Gorbachev
  • Is It Too Late to Stop Global Warming?


    Sunday, April 2

  • US and UK Forces Establish 'Enduring Bases' in Iraq
  • Loophole Weakens Lobbying Reform Bill


    Saturday, April 1

  • Uncle Sam's Scientists Busy Building Insect Army
  • Bush Policies Stoke Anti-Yanqui Sentiment
  • Buckley Says Bush Will Be Judged on Iraq War, Now a 'Failure'
  • Agent Orange: The Legacy of a Weapon of Mass Destruction
  • Mexico/Canada/US: Reiterating Unfulfilled Promises
  • Biodiversity: Environmentalists, Indigenous People Disappointed by COP8
  • GOP in Danger of Losing Control of Congress, Gingrich Says
  • Watergate Figure Returns from the 'Dark Side' to Condemn Bush


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