Trade ministers from 34 Western Hemisphere countries will meet in Quebec City April 18-22 for essential negotiations on a new international trade agreement, the Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA. This particular meeting marks the...
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11 April 2001
Commander-in-Chief Bush doesn't want to eat crow, but the truly big question is whether
those captive boys and girls from the U.S. surveillance plane are being forced to eat dog
without their knowledge. The Canadians, eager to discredit...
04 April 2001
Here's a parable about what is intellectually respectable and politically safe in this country,
and what is not. It concerns two of this country's best known public intellectuals, Edward
Said and Susan Sontag.
It's a backhanded...
28 March 2001
NEW MEXICO -- Drive across the United States, mostly on Interstate 40, and you'll
have plenty of time to listen to the radio. Even more time than usual if, to take my own
situation, you're in a 1976 Ford 350 one-ton pickup, ploughing along...
21 March 2001
Before the coal industry told him to quit putting his foot in his mouth, even George W.
Bush, born and bred in a Texas oil patch, subscribed to the notion that global warming is
largely caused by the so-called "greenhouse gasses," the...
14 March 2001
The air now quivers with gloomy assessments of the secrets "compromised" by the FBI's
Robert Hanssen, a senior official who stands accused of working for the Russians since
1985.
If you believe the FBI affidavit against him filed in...
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