The unanimous vote in the UN Security Council supporting the U.S. resolution on weapons inspections in Iraq was a demonstration of Washington's ability to wield its vast political and economic power. Analysts say Syria had no choice. "Syria fears also that Israel could use a war with Iraq as cover for action against Syria," an analyst said. But the Arab League said it expects Washington to keep its word and not use the vote as "a pretext for war" U.S. Turned Financial Screws For Unanimous UN Vote Against Iraq Syria Trapped In Corner On Iraq Vote Arabs Say UN Resolution Isn't Warrant For Iraq War

Ariel Sharon: Israel Should "Exploit" Hebron Ambush Palestinians say that Israel using attack to justify re-occupation

Israel Election A Fight Between Right-Wingers
Sharon will try to be even more hardline than Netanyahu

The Other Elections: Islamist Parties Winning Big
In all five Mideast nations recently voting, opposition Islamist groups won or made significant gains

Dramatic Reversal: Arafat Finds Support, Sharon In Trouble
Notorious Israeli Prime Minister loses support

Sniper Case Breathes New Life Into Anti-immigration Movement Conservatives quick to note that alleged sniper's companion was "illegal alien"

Brazil's New President More Nationalist Than Leftist Protecting Brazil against abuses from U.S. and the financial policies it sponsors

China Makes Historic Concessions For Better U.S. Ties Becoming major economic partner as U.S-Russia relationship chills

Record Turnout For D.C. Anti-War Protests
Over 100,000 march against war in Iraq

Bush Reject Of ABM Treaty Had Global Ripple Effect One year later, harder to enforce weapon violators

Stakes High As U.S. Corp Sues Over Water In Secret Trade Court Bechtel demands $25 mil after Bolivians rebelled against skyrocketing water rates

Bush Rolls Back Air Pollution Controls Biggest setback in history of Clean Air Act

IS KYOTO TREATY DEAD?

Scheduled to become an international treaty in 2003 and reduce effects of global warming, the Kyoto Protocol is now in jeopardy. At the recent UN global climate change conference, the Bush Administration nearly succeeded in dropping all references to the pact. "It seems [U.S. negotiators] are only here to sabotage, obstruct, weaken and delay proceedings," said the representative from one of the many enviro groups attending the conference in India. Angry reaction from Europe and the Third World forced a last-minute revision, but chances of success are now at risk as other major nations also seek to gut the treaty or scrap it entirely U.S. Trying to Block Global Warming Controls Kyoto Protocol is Human Rights Issue, Protesters Say Australia, Japan, Canada Join U.S. Attack on Kyoto Protocol Russia's Putin Caught Between Coal And Kyoto

S Africa Terrorism Linked To White Supremacists Alleged plot to violently overthrow government

Bush Shifts Snowmobile Policy Into High Gear
Threw out 10 years of science under pressure of snowmobile lobby

Hard Times In Yugoslavia's Fierce Backwater Montenegro fierce and freewheeling and still near anarchy

Abortion Foes Attack Clinics In PR Campaign Trying to discredit and encourage lawsuits against abortion providers

In the wake of September 11, President Bush requested the largest increase in defense spending in two decades. As the Pentagon and Congress throw money around under the guise of fighting terrorism, the Pentagon has been able to ignore calls for reform and transformation; more than one-third of the $68 billion weapons procurement budget for this year will go to big-ticket, cold war-era weapons systems

THE POOH FILES In what lawyers call a "desperate" attempt to hold on to a billion dollar honey pot, Disney gambles over who owns the rights to Winnie the Pooh by making surprising claims. Meanwhile, a court of appeals turns down a Disney bid to overturn "massive and crippling" sanctions against the corporation for destroying evidence
	Disney Loses Appeal On "Massive, Crippling" Damages Disney Lawyers Claimed Pooh Was Public Domain Disney Says Christopher Robin's Heirs To Retake Pooh Ownership