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The former head of Army’s Media Relations in Afghanistan lets loose on the marketing of Osama, the coffin controversy, and engineering combat footage for NBC.

Many of us rely on drugs imported from developing countries like India. But a new report reveals the toxic industry that produces them and the people who pay the price.

George Bush and other Iraq War supporters have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the killing fields of Cambodia -- an odd comparison considering that the US has direct responsibility for that holocaust.

Many of us rely on drugs imported from developing countries like India. But a new report reveals the toxic industry that produces them and the people who pay the price.

Hiring former Bush administration EPA head Christie Todd Whitman to chair its "Clean and Safe Energy Coalition" is the nuclear industry's latest PR attempt at "greening" its image.

With the rise of "reality" TV shows like "Meerkat Manor" and the explosion of animal documentaries such as "Arctic Circle," wildlife is finding new popularity in Hollywood -- but so is the dangerous idea that nature exists to entertain us.

Only a few days after the most recent wave of fires, remaining forests fell prey to yet more of them, once again set by arsonists. The country is heading to a snap election and the government's proclamations of de-commissioning forest areas (thus allowing for building construction to take place) gave a golden opportunity to private capital and its arsonists to burn whole areas down to the last leaf. This frenzy of burned forests has already left 62 dead, tens injured, missing, homeless; hundreds of thousands of burnt acres of land in the Peloponnese, Western Greece alone. The prefectures of Ilia, Arkadia and Messinia are still being destroyed by the fire. Up to this moment there are many still raging fires in the prefectures of Korinthia, Lakonia and Evoia. The already extremely limited and hence priceless patches of green of Attica did not escape these "accidental" fires (including the neighborhoods of Cholargos, Papagou and Galatsi). Satellite image by NASA. For more information, see Athens IMC in English

In a dramatic speech, John Edwards fired a major broadside against corporate America and, more significantly, "corporate Democrats," -- the likes of which hasn't been heard from a viable candidate with national appeal in decades.

There are times when the resonances of history are positively eerie. The parallels of Napoleon's occupation of Egypt with Bush's disaster in Iraq are enough to make you jump out of your chair.

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The author samples some of the growing list of how-to books on eating local -- including the latest from Barbara Kingsolver -- and follows their recipes for the slow food lifestyle.

David Duchovny's new series is smart, funny and, most importantly, it's obviously trying to be true, not just about life in general, but about sex in particular.

David Duchovny's new series is smart, funny and, most importantly, it's obviously trying to be true, not just about life in general, but about sex in particular.

The road to Xanica climbs up from Huatulco through a beautiful forest. It’s rough and unpaved, but the driver of our wooden-railed pick-up knows all the ruts and curves, even in the rain. He’s lived there all his life. His name is Isaías. He talks to the two of us, who were lucky enough to be riding up front, about the woods and the deer and possums and armadillos that live there. Then he says, “See those lights? They’re the lights of Xanica.” On our two-hour ride they look really distant, then closer, then even further away, but there they are, shining clearly through the mist, always visible in this part of the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca. Isaías answers our questions and tells about the state of siege in his town. Only later did I learn that he’s one of eight people from Xanica with warrants out for his arrest.

El camino a Xanica sube desde Huatulco en medio de un hermoso bosque. Es de brecha, pero el conductor de nuestro camión de redilas conoce bien todos los baches y curvas, hasta en la lluvia. Ha vivido ahí toda su vida. Se llama Isaías.A las dos personas que tenemos la suerte de ir en cabina, nos platica un poco del bosque, de los venados y tlacuaches que viven ahí y luego dice: “¿Pueden ver estas luces? Son las luces de Xanica”. En el paseo de dos horas se ven muy lejos, luego más cercanas, de nuevo más distantes, pero ahí brillan tranquilamente, siempre visibles en esta región de la Sierra Sur de Oaxaca. Isaías sigue contestando nuestras preguntas y platicando un poco sobre el estado de sitio en el pueblo.Solamente después me enteré de que él es una de las ocho personas de Xanica con órdenes de aprehensión en su contra.

The 43rd President of the United States visibly choked up saying "so long" to the man he affectionately called "Turd Blossom," as his alter ego was pried away from him for the first time in 14 years.

Why did Senator Warner's paltry pledge to bring 5,000 boys home by Christmas get framed as anti-Bush?

How Friedman's 2003 argument that America should terrorize a random Arab nation reveals an America gone mad.

"From their point of view, it's us versus them -- and everyone who looks different is one of them."

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