Last week, a federal judge ordered USA Defense Department to release dozens of additional photographs + videotapes depicting prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.

10.Jun.2005 Departing Bolivia president warns of civil war threat : The departing president, Carlos Mesa, warned his country to step back from the brink of civil war. Bolivian's pressing for expropriation of private oil companies occupied installations belonging to Repsol YPF of Spain + British Gas, forcing the companies to shut down production.

10.Jun.2005 Bolivia Unrest May Cut Natural Gas to Brazil in Days: Bolivian unrest may curtail natural gas supplies to Brazil, South America's largest economy, within days, leaving its industrial heartland without adequate energy to run factories + electricity plants.

10.Jun.2005 U.S. wants to allow Haiti to buy weapons : A spokesman for interim Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue said money for a weapons purchase had already been deposited in a Florida bank + that Haitian authorities were simply waiting for a green light from Washington.

10.Jun.2005 World Bank Approves $2M Grant for Haiti : The World Bank on Tuesday approved a US$2 million (euro1.63 million) grant to help Haiti manage its finances, warning the country's economic recovery won't be effective without proper accounting of public resources.

10.Jun.2005 How African aid can be the new imperialism : The idea of the new American empire has been powerfully explained by Niall Ferguson, the Glasgow-born historian. Washington, he argues, is the new Rome as it maintains a new global world order, at great expense.

10.Jun.2005 Broken promises leave three million children to die in Africa : Three million children will die in the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the failure of the global community to meet its promise of slashing the death rates of the under-fives by 2015

10.Jun.2005 Child rights report critical of Australia : It highlights how the incarceration of children in detention centres is in breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

10.Jun.2005 5th Person Detained In Lodi "Terror" Investigation: U.S. attorney McGregor Scott stressed that investigators did not find the men in the middle of executing a specific plan. Three people are being detained on immigration violations -- Shabbir Ahmed, Mohammed Adil Khan + most recently Khan's son, Mohammed Hasan Adil, 19.

10.Jun.2005 Affidavit: United States v. Hamid Hayat (pdf) Interesting reading!

10.Jun.2005 'No al-Qaeda camps in Pakistan' : Pakistan today denied claims that one of two terror suspects arrested in California had received training at an al-Qaeda camp in the South Asian country.

10.Jun.2005 Poll: Support Seen for Patriot Act Extension: Against a backdrop of heightened public concern about government intrusions, six in 10 Americans favor extending the Patriot Act, but majorities oppose expanding it by adding new FBI powers to issue subpoenas and access U.S. mail.

10.Jun.2005 Posada Carriles and Bush's Anti-Terror Hoax: Bush has thrown the Magna Carta into the garbage heap when it comes to Muslims suspected of pernicious thoughts toward the USA. But if suspected terrorists turn their rage toward the detested Fidel Castro, these rules don't apply.

10.Jun.2005 Welcome, torturer!: Uzbekistan tyrant Islam Karimov + NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg in 00.Mar.2002. You probably didn't see this photo in American papers.

10.Jun.2005 Lawmaker in DeLay Inquiry Tied to Lobbyist: The lawmaker who will head a House inquiry into trips that lobbyist Jack Abramoff arranged for Tom DeLay has his own links to the lobbyist. 10.Jun.2005 06/08/05:  Really wicked solutions needed to beat Bush : What if poverty in some of the worst affected areas of the globe is not simply the result of mismanagement + incompetence + corruption + indifference? What if it’s the result of deliberate „economic“ engineering?

10.Jun.2005 When Marine recruiters go way beyond the call : Faster than you can say "semper fi," an odyssey kicked into action that illustrates just how desperate some of the recruiters we've read about really are to fill severely sagging quotas.

10.Jun.2005 Feel that draft? : Recruitment for the U.S. Army + Marine Corps is on the brink of disaster. A draft for the 21st Century is the only answer to our national security needs. Such a draft would have three tiers of youth service, with 18-month tours of duty for citizens ages 18 to 25. The first tier would be modeled after a standard military draft.

10.Jun.2005 War swells US army divorce rate : The number of US army officers getting divorced has soared in the past few years, the Pentagon says, a trend blamed on wars in Iraq + Afghanistan.

10.Jun.2005 UN alert as nuclear plans go missing : Electronic drawings that give comprehensive details of how to build and test equipment essential for making nuclear bombs have vanished and could be put up for sale on the international black market, according to UN investigators.

10.Jun.2005 acquitted+by+high+court">Germany: 9-11 terror suspect Mzoudi acquitted by high court : Germany's high court confirmed on Thursday the acquittal of Abdel-Ghani Mzoudi, 32, who had been accused of assisting the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

10.Jun.2005 The US and that 'other' axis: Beijing's increasingly close ties with Moscow and Tehran will thwart Washington's foreign policy goal of expanding US security footholds in the Middle East, Central Asia and Asia. 10.Jun.2005 China Plans to Invest Project Investments : Chinese officials on Thursday signed preliminary agreements to invest about $1.5 billion in construction, timber, agriculture and other industries in Russia. 10.Jun.2005 Israeli High Court: "The West Bank and Gaza, are not part of Israel." : Yoram Sheftel, an attorney for the settlers, said his expectations were low because the Supreme Court has a tendency of ruling against settlers.

10.Jun.2005 Israel attempts damage control on growing missile scandal: The Israelis are denying that the Colombian shipment was of complete missiles + are claiming that it was only "missile parts" + that previous shipments had already passed through Venezuelan transit muster without complaint ... previous shipments have amounted to the assembly of at least a dozen missiles

10.Jun.2005 What's Really 'Reprehensible?' : Flash presentation.

10.Jun.2005 Amnesty International Calls On Congress to Establish an Independent Commission + to Call for a Special Counsel : The refusal of USA government to conduct a truly independent investigation into the abuses at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib + other detention centers is tantamount to a whitewash, if not a cover-up, of these disgraceful crimes.

10.Jun.2005 After Lowering Goal, Army Falls Short on May Recruits : Early last month, the Army, with no public notice, lowered its long-stated May goal to 6,700 recruits from 8,050. Compared with the original target, the Army achieved only 62.6 percent of its goal for the month.

10.Jun.2005 U.S.-led forces in Iraq hold 6,000 prisoners -UN : Thousands of people are detained in Iraq without due process in apparent violation of international law, the UN said on Wednesday, adding that 6,000 of the country's 10,000 prisoners were in the hands of the U.S. military.

10.Jun.2005 Former CIA director calls for Iraq withdrawal : He also said that he believes there was a deeper reason behind the military action.

10.Jun.2005 Bush & Blair/Iraq denials raise questions : This is stunning. As Mark Danner wrote in Sunday's New York Review of Books, "Thus the idea of UN inspectors was introduced not as a means to avoid war, as President Bush repeatedly assured Americans, but as a means to make war possible."

10.Jun.2005 In case you missed it: Iraq Tony And The Truth: This is the story of what Mr. Blair did not tell us before sending UK troops into battle.

10.Jun.2005 In case you missed it:: Video: BBC Reports On The Secret Downing St. Memo: Real Video

10.Jun.2005 Washington confronts 'memogate': It has also provoked embarrassed questions in the US media as to why so many newspapers and broadcast outlets here ignored the story for so long.

10.Jun.2005 Papers Reach Iraq Boiling Point: Suddenly there seems to be something in the air -- the smell of death? Or something in the water -- blood? In any case, this past week, widely scattered newspaper editorialists roused themselves from seeming acceptance of the continuing slaughter in Iraq to voice, for the first time in many cases, outright condemnation of the war.

10.Jun.2005 Marines arrest US contractors : US marines said on Wednesday they had detained 19 employees of a contract security firm, including 16 US citizens, in the former rebel hotspot of Fallujah last month after they fired on US forces.

10.Jun.2005 Marines 'beat US workers' in Iraq : U.S. contractors say they were treated like Iraqi's