"Tutu hits out at lack of apartheid prosecutions"

The Double Standard of Righteous Indignation
I saw a clear ethnic double standard in how sex, drugs and violence is viewed and addressed. This discussion becomes even more important as 50 Cents is being castigated as a promoter of violence and gunplay in his new movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'."

Weah Withdraws Protest
Defeated presidential candidate George Weah has finally backed out of his electoral fraud case against the National Elections Commission.

Prejudice on Death Row
If Tookie Williams had killed four black people, would he still be alive today?

Ancient prints give fresh view on Aborigines
Canberra - Children meandered around their parents' ankles. A man, likely a hunter, dashed through the mud. Somebody dragged a dead animal along the shores of a lake. Now the footprints they left some 20 000 years ago are giving a fresh perspective on the lives of Australian Aborigines.

We Will Pay For Cheap Bananas With Prisons, Fear and Fragmentation
As hurricanes barrelled through the alphabet this year, pounding Anthony Barnett's two acres of banana fields in St Thomas, Jamaica, his healthy respect for the forces of nature endured. But as the World Trade Organisation meets in Hong Kong this week, it is the deliberate demolition wrought by humankind he fears most.

Tutu hits out at lack of apartheid prosecutions
South Africa should have prosecuted apartheid-era perpetrators of atrocities who refused to repent, retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Thursday as the country prepared to mark a decade since the creation of its truth commission.

Africa fears 'tsunami' of cheap imports
South Africa's union federation Cosatu planned to use a rally marking its 20th birthday earlier this month to promote a "buy local" campaign. But as some 20 000 unionists marched and chanted "Proudly South African" slogans in a Durban stadium, word went round that the bright red T-shirts each wore were made in China.

Australia's Racism

Alphabet Originated Centuries Earlier Than Previously Thought

Dreaming of a Non-White Christmas

How the Media 'Authorize' the Abuse of Government Power

Israel threatens to cut Gaza power

The sudden end of the New York transit strike

Second toxic spill in two months poisons waterway
ANOTHER toxic chemical spill into a Chinese river has forced officials to cut off water to cities and villages along the Bei waterway in a southern province near the border with Hong Kong.

Rare seabird flies thousands of kilometers across Asia
A Christmas Island frigatebird named Lydia recently completed a 26-day journey over 4,000 kilometers -- across Indonesian volcanoes and some of the busiest shipping lanes in Asia -- in search of food for her baby chick. The trip, tracked with a global positioning device by officials at Christmas Island National Park, is by far the longest known nonstop journey by this critically endangered sea bird.

Journal cites evolution studies in 2005
The journal Science's pick for breakthrough of the year in 2005 is "evolution in action," focusing on studies of how evolution works and how it affects lives today.

Australia's Racism
After establishing themselves among the black, brown and yellow peoples of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, white Australians proceeded to consider themselves good British colonials. Although they established their country as a prison and then killed off the native inhabitants, they managed to secure for themselves a reputation for being laid back and good-natured. What was less than good-natured was an official policy that restricted immigration by non-whites that was not rescinded until 1973.

EU may let GMO crops into organic food-green groups

The Top 10 Bitterest Ironies of 2005

Bush Pardons Convicted Coke Dealer
A Denver lawyer was pardoned Tuesday by President Bush for drug-related crimes she committed more than two decades ago. Wendy St. Charles, now 49, was among 11 people who received presidential pardons.