Full Coverage: North America

31.12.2007 Christian Salmon considers how George Bush's wartime administration used a magician, Hollywood designers, and Karl Rove telling 1,001 stories to sell the invasion of Iraq.
From: Le Monde

27.12.2007 BAQUBA, Dec 27 (IPS) - The Iraqi government announcement that monthly food rations will be cut by half has left many Iraqis asking how they can survive.

23.12.2007 The US has lost ground in Latin America over the past decade, since the project to develop the Free Trade Area of the Americas flopped and since leftwing governments took power and used it with imagination and vigour, says Janette Habel.

21.12.2007 The United States is putting strong pressure on the Afghan government to officially adopt the strategy of eradicating the opium poppy through aerial spraying of the crops with the herbicide glyphosate.

21.12.2007 A first-of-its-kind poll highlights stereotypes and racial tensions between Asians, Blacks, and Latinos across the U.S.
From: New America Media

20.12.2007 Congress' approval Wednesday of $70 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan mean the twin conflicts are now more costly to American taxpayers than the war in Vietnam.

18.12.2007 Eight years ago the world's wealthiest countries promised to provide the funding needed to ensure that all children worldwide can attend school. But now, halfway to the global 2015 deadline for universal primary education, developed countries are failing to come up with the aid.

17.12.2007 At a recent rally calling for an end to the violence in Darfur, genocide survivors, religious leaders, Olympic medal winners, and others participated in a symbolic Olympic torch relay ending at the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC, highlighting China's role as the main economic and political supporter of the Khartoum regime.

17.12.2007 A free trade agreement launched last week between Peru and the U.S. "fails to deliver on its development potential and could further deepen poverty for Peru's poorest," writes an international humanitarian group.

15.12.2007 So the US joins in the global consensus at the last moment - but is the world better or worse off as a result? Anuradha starts the reactions to the Bali climate change conference.

14.12.2007 Michael T. Klare explains why he feels the Iraq War is so closely tied to the United States' failure to effectively address climate change.

13.12.2007 In the face of globalisation, the U.S. labour movement is striving to reinvent -- and reinvigorate -- itself by establishing closer ties with the world's network of international unions.

13.12.2007 Halfway through the UN climate change conference in Bali, the U.S. and China -- two of the world's most notorious polluters -- are refusing to commit to the drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are necessary to avert the worst impacts of global warming.

13.12.2007 Spurred by recent anti-bottled water campaigns, Americans -- who consume more than $15 billion of bottled water a year -- and people around the world are beginning to switch back to tap water, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions released during bottle production.

12.12.2007 The parents of an Army reservist who committed suicide after returning from Iraq testified before Congress Wednesday, urging that more mental health services be available for returned veterans.

12.12.2007 US Congressman Edward J. Markey took an alternate — and virtually carbon-free — route to Bali this morning, as he offered the United Nations climate summit there a vision of US climate policy that is strongly critical of the Bush administration.

12.12.2007 Alkuperäiskansojen oikeuksien puolesta toimivat tahot nimesivät alkuperäiskansojen kannalta ongelmallisimmat maat vuonna 2007. Länsimaista listalle joutuivat Yhdysvallat, Kanada, Australia ja Uusi Seelanti.

11.12.2007 A senior U.S. Congressman will use OneWorld's 'Virtual Bali' stage to address the UN's climate change conference in Bali Tuesday, saving over 5 tons of carbon dioxide that would have been emitted had he flown commercially to Indonesia to give the speech.

11.12.2007 The 10th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol today – which requires industrialised countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by at least five per cent from the 1990 level – was marked by a warning that the treaty is under threat at the UN climate change negotiations in Bali, Indonesia.

10.12.2007 For years the United States resisted reductions in greenhouse gas emissions on the basis of supposedly extreme economic costs. Now, a new report suggests that "significantly reducing U.S. carbon emissions could cost far less than the trillions of dollars some have projected."