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By insisting on an ineffectual and inequitable system of international emissions trading, the U.S. is obstructing other nations, courting ecological disaster, and preventing a worldwide economic boom from a transition to clean energy.

The signing of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and on Their Destruction in Ottawa, Canada, in December 1997, represents a great arms control and human rights triumph.

At the center of the current debate of global governance is the G8/G7, a self-constituted forum of the major free-market democracies, whose deliberations and declarations have come to shape key decisions in the management of global political and economic affairs.

Twenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. still treats Vietnam with a double standard; the July 2000 signing of a bilateral trade agreement is one step toward a balanced policy.

Despite an announced “compromise” both the procedure that produced the Iraqi constitutional draft that will be voted on October 15, and its constitutional substance were and are disastrous.

UFPJ Talking Points #33: The referendum is a consolidation of US influence and control.

The cost to small towns of the war in Iraq.

Bush’s October 6 address illustrated his desperate effort to justify the increasingly unpopular U.S. war in Iraq.

The stakes in the referendum on the Iraqi Constitution.

What happened in Basra may be a preview of a strategy aimed at causing the collapse of the U.S. political position in one city after another.