HUGE PROTESTS AT BUSH INAUGURATION

It was the largest inaugural protests since the days of Nixon, with tens of thousands of people expressed their disbelief that Bush was the new president. Ignored by mainstream media, protests were mentioned in passing, like some unfortunate -- yet unavoidable -- irritant, and content to get comments from appalled Bush supporters and adopt the Republican thesis that these were "sore losers." If so, the losers were everywhere, making up a large, and in many places a majority, percentage of the crowd. "It's sort of empowering to see that there is a huge number of folks here who recognize that this wasn't an election," said one protester. "This was a manipulation" Hail To The Thief Bush Protester: "This Is A Nightmare"

With Clinton Exit, Hopes For Mideast Peace Fade Even badly flawed, Clinton brokered deal was best hope

California Energy Crisis Puts Gov On Hot Seat
Does he side with his big donors or an irate public?

As cities in Northern California cope with blackouts, politicians and power companies play the blame game. But greed is the underlying cause of California's energy crisis

The Anti-Environmental Gang Comes to Washington
Gale Norton joined by batch of "wise use" Bush nominees

Rumsfeld: Star Warrior Returns
Booster of "star wars" space weapons expected to abandon ABM treaty

Ashcroft Appointment Worth All-Out Fight
A moral extremist that would turn courts sharply right

Did Ashcroft Vow to Ignore Law?
Allegedly said he wouldn't enforce court decision he didn't like

Bush's Drug Czar: A Modest Proposal
Want to be a uniter not divider? Hire a reformer

Paying for the Bush-Cheney Inauguration
Does a $25,000 dinner include all-you-can-eat salad bar?

DNC Nominates Top Fundraiser for Chairman
No policy or elected office experience, but hauls in the cash

Black Leaders Slam "Illegitimate" Bush Presidency
Vote problems found in several states besides Florida

Bush Cabinet Older, Farther Right Than Expected
Connections to widely-hated James Watt, Ollie North

Researchers Accidentally Create Doomsday Virus Altered virus wiped out all test animals in nine days

Mexico's Fox and Zapatista Marcos Near Summit Subcommander Marcos and other EZLN leaders to visit capitol

Australia is reintroducing the Bilby to its natural habitat -- but behind fences only

Crisis and Opportunity at Ben & Jerry's Founders contemplating leaving company after decisions by new corporate owner

Bringing Back the Bilbies Researchers build fenced area for endangered native species

Africa is New Target for Big Tobacco Heavy ads in some of world's poorest countries

Fears Spread in Balkans About Kosovo War Radioactive Ammo Some NATO soldiers dead from cancers liked to depleted uranium

Human Trafficking a $7 Billion Global Business
Nearly 1 million women per year are victims

Parents Often Not Told of MD Drug Errors Study finds 2 of 5 medication errors involved children under two years

Do oil and tobacco companies spend more money on shameful PR ads than the good works they boast about? Companies do

Trust Us, We're The Experts How They Lie To You Philip Morris Puts Up Good Citizen Smokescreen BP: Re-branding the Oil Giant as "Beyond Petroleum"

White Supremacists Begin Countdown For Y2050 When non-Latino whites will become a numerical minority in the U. S.

Greenpeace, Other Try to Block "Floating Chernobyl" First of regular shipments of nuclear waste along controversial route

Rubber Bullets Not Effective, Study Finds Crowd control guns so wildly inaccurate that they usually miss

S American Dams Cost More Than They're Worth Mega-projects cost more than expected, damage health and social structures

Arctic Natives Divided Over Oil Drilling Indians in NW Canada hate it, Alaskan Natives more supportive

FBI Works Closely With Insurance Industry Group
But no investigation of insurance companies ripping off consumers

Press Distorted Quotes of "Kill Cops" Politican
Once the media got hold of these remarks, NH Rep was dead meat

Corporate Blind-Eye To King Holiday
Deep-seated corporate racism leads to view that it's a "holiday for Blacks"

Ten Worst Corporations of 2000
Most examples that self-regulation doesn't work

Reasons to Perk Up
It's Borking Season
Linda Chavez's Baggage
Bush Poised to Make Energy Crisis Worse
Bush Sabotaging Himself
Best and Worst of the Year 2000