May 09, 2008 | Karen Jarvis, of Amnesty International, looks on as Brandon West peers inside a full-size replica of a Guantanamo Bay cell built as part of a campaign to draw attention to conditions at the US detention facility. In interviews and a court filing on Tuesday, lawyers for detainees at Guantanamo said they believed government agents had monitored their conversations.
(Photo: The Associated Press)

Obama and McCain
Map Fall Strategies

Tragedy of Dead and Survivors
in Burma Grows Worse

Number of Disabled Vets Up
With Iraq, Afghan Wars

Florida Republicans Use Race
and Sex to Woo Black Voters

Democrats Tout Shift
in Hispanic Voting

McCain Convention Chief
Tied to Burma's Junta Quits

Iraq:
Will We Ever Get Out?

Judge Orders CIA to
Turn Over "Torture" Memo

Truce Agreement
in Sadr City

Judge Drops General
From Detainee Trial

Conservatives Supporting
Shield Law for the Press

Burma Seizes UN Food Aid,
Blocks Foreign Experts

"For Blackwater
It's Business as Usual"

Ex-Guantanamo Commander
Removed From Pakistan

Plame Seeks to Resurrect
Lawsuit in CIA Leak Case

New Signs of Attacks in
Zimbabwe as Mbeki Arrives

Burma's Leaders Play Politics
With Disaster

Conyers Subpoenas Addington
in Torture Probe

US Army's "Stop-Loss" Orders Up
Dramatically Over Last Year

Defying Bush, House
Passes Broad Housing Bill

Crude Jolt for US as
Iran Scraps Oil Trade in Dollar

Latin America: Food Summit
Declares Regional Emergency

Iraqi Military Orders Sadr
City Residents to Evacuate

Sari Gelzer
The Soldiers Project:
Mental Health Care Confidential

Hezbollah Gunmen Seize
Control of Beirut Areas

UN Says 1.5 Million People
Affected by Burma Storm

Top Clinton Aide Says
Race Will End in June

Hinchey Calls Blue Dog
Behavior "Absolutely Shameful"

Bush's FEC Moves Seen
as Aiding McCain's Campaign

Special Counsel Shut Down
Probe of Siegelman Case

Violence Escalates Between
Sunni and Shia in Beirut

FBI Withdraws Digital Library's
National Security Letter

Burma: Junta Referendum
Priority Over Cyclone Relief

US Evangelicals Call for
Step Back From Politics

A Return
to the 1970s?

Maya Schenwar:
Women in the Running

Blue Dogs Vow to Bite
on Iraq Spending Bill

Michigan Democrats Plan
for Delegate Seating

216 Arrested in Protests
of Sean Bell Case Acquittals

Obama's Got a
Confident New Strategy

The "Surge" of
Iraqi Prisoners

Pressure to Cut Costs,
Troops Strains "Surge"

Christopher Kuttruff:
A Party and Country United

100,000 May Have
Died in Burma Cyclone


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May 09, 2008 | The general manager and possibly other senior staff members at the Crandall Canyon Mine near Huntington, Utah, where nine miners died last August, withheld information from federal officials that could have prevented the disaster and should face a criminal inquiry, the chairman of a Congressional investigation said on Thursday.
(Photo: Utah America Energy /
The Associated Press)

 


 

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Could Preservation Have
Averted Burma Disaster?

Utah Mine Disaster
Was Avoidable, Report Says

Nicaragua:
Working for Safety Despite
Abortion Ban

US Urgently Needs
AIDS Prevention Program,
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May 09, 2008 | Burmese residents walk past houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in Bogalay. The United Nations suspended relief supplies to Burma on Friday after the military government seized the food and equipment it had already sent into the country.
(Photo: Lynne Sladky / The Associated Press)

Jim VandeHei and David Paul Kuhn:
GOP Getting Crushed
in Polls, Key Races

Ann Wright:
Protest Camps Against American Military
Bases in Japan and Italy

Bill McKibben:
A Last Chance for Civilization

J. Sri Raman:
India's Nuclear Anniversary

Dan Bacher:
Klamath River Tribes and Fishermen
Disrupt Berkshire Hathaway Meeting

Bernard Maris:
Long Live Expensive Gas,
SUV-Killer

The New York Times:
The Lucrative Art of War

Kevin Cullen:
Pressed Freedom

Chimienti and Baker:
Three Things That Won't Help
the Foreclosure Crisis

Russ Feingold:
Government in Secret

Sara Robinson:
Outright Barbarism vs.
the Civil Society

Michael T. Klare:
Portrait of an Oil-Addicted
Former Superpower

Roger de Weck:
From Crisis to Crisis?

Helen Thomas:
A Picture Worth
a Thousand Words

William J. Astore:
The Air Force Above All

Arielle Thedrel:
The European Right's
Powerful Push

Isaiah J. Poole:
Let's Bank on Rebuilding America

Norman Solomon:
War Made Easy

Bob Herbert:
Doing the Troops Wrong

B.O.:
Insurmountable Dilemma
for Central Banks

Scott Ritter:
The Pentagon vs. America

Ann Wright:
Japanese People Still Say
"No More War"

Dean Baker:
More Attacks on Social Security
and Medicare

Tom Engelhardt:
The Last War and the Next One

Frank Rich:
The All-White Elephant
in the Room

The New York Times:
Helping the Unemployed

Bob Herbert:
Overkill and Short Shrift

Clayton Dach:
America's Chemically Modified
21st Century Soldiers

Adam Cohen:
Voting Rights Are Too Important

J. Sri Raman
Undo Nepal's Polls:
India's Hawks

David Bacon:
"We Are Workers, Not Criminals"

Pepe Escobar:
The Iranian Chessboard

Bernie Horn:
How to Talk About Health Care

Serge Truffaut:
Goodbye to Anti-Fascism

Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman:
Did the US Supreme Court
Just Elect John McCain?

Thomas L. Friedman:
Dumb as We Wanna Be

Chalmers Johnson
A Litany of Horrors:
America's University of Imperialism

 

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