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Capturing The Jacobsons  (MSNBC) -  A journalist takes his family around the world to rescue them from Cocoa Puffs, cell phones and third reruns of ‘Buffy’

Biopirates In The Americas  (AlterNet) -  American corporations are taking advantage of "free-trade" agreements to find plants, animals and even people they can patent and turn into profit.

The American Way Of Beef  (The Atlantic) -  These days, the thought of ingesting hamburger gives many people pause. Books like Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation have impressed upon readers' minds the image of the modern beef cow.

Cannibals to Cows: The Path of a Deadly Disease  (MSNBC) -  Health officials say they’ve got Mad Cow under control, but millions of unaware people may be infected. Why it could still turn into an epidemic.

The Oily Americans  (TIME) -  Why the world doesn't trust the U.S. about petroleum: A history of meddling.

How Progress Makes Us Sick  (Newsweek) -  Advances that make life more comfortable can also make it more dangerous.

The Secrets of September 11 (Newsweek) -  The White House is battling to keep a report on the terror attacks secret.

Reign Of Terrors (CSM) -  Young Zimbabweans admit to campaign of violence against opposition supporters while world focused on Iraq.

Coal Country (Salon) -  The worst environmental disaster you never heard of.

"Human Beings, As Currently Constituted, Are Good Enough" (Salon) -  Bill McKibben says that the brave new genetic world may give us better teeth and brains -- but it'll steal our souls.

The News We Kept to Ourselves (NY Times) -  Now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, I suspect we will hear  many, many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment. At last, these stories can be told freely.

Aftershock (Independent) -  What happens when the fighting stops? Will the war really bring peace to Iraq or will the conflict tip the Middle East into chaos?

The New Oil Order (CorpWatch) -  There is no escaping the fact that the Middle East and specifically the Persian Gulf region remains the worlds prime oil province, for the U.S. and for other importer.

The Arrogant Empire (Newsweek) -  America’s unprecedented power scares the world, and the Bush administration has only made it worse. How we got here—and what we can do about it now?

Where's the Beef (In the Teenage Diet) (Time) -  More teenagers, particularly girls, are turning to vegetarianism. And that's making America's beef producers very nervous

"Taken For A Ride" (Culture Change) -  This is a story about how things got the way they are. Why sitting in traffic seems natural.

India's Lost Girls (BBC) -  If newly-weds continue with this brutal practice of eliminating girls, this whole region is on course for catastrophe.

How Bush Gets His Way On The Environment (TIME) -  With the nation distracted by terrorism and the economy, the President has quietly maneuvered to challenge limits on drilling, mining, logging and power generation.

Holy Wars? (ABC) -  Islamic and Christian extremists fight a vitriolic war

of words.

A Better Way to Eat (Newsweek) -  Americans have grown fatter and sicker since the USDA Food Pyramid came out a decade ago.

Future World (ABC) -  Privacy, terrorists, and science fiction?

Sugar Daddy (ABC) -  America spends billions to win friends, but how far does friendship really go?

War Without Killing? (CSMonitor)  - The technology may be "Star Wars" and the new battlefield set in a civilian scene.

Sleeping With The Enemy (Guardian)  - There is more to US appeasement of Saudi Arabia than meets the eye.

Now, ‘Integrative Care’ (MSNBC)  - As science rigorously examines herbs and acupuncture, a new blend of medicine emerges.

Rediscovering How You Eat (ABC News)  - Researchers want to turn U.S. Food Pyramid on its head.

Should Churches Convert Drivers of SUV's? (CSMonitor)  -  SUVs have been assailed by a group of religious leaders who say the cars are a cause of global warming.

A Fragile Balance (ABC News)  -  Tension between security and privacy worries some observers

How The World Sees Americans (Salon)  -  Journalist Mark Hertsgaard traveled the globe gathering opinions about the U.S. He talks about the surprising results.

Advertising Deregulated (Counter Punch)  -  The inalienable right to mislead millions.

The Selling Of America (GNN)  -  Wartime propaganda in the 20th century and beyond has always been impacted by  the American motion picture industry and American press.

The Unseen Conflict (GNN)  - Securing what's left of the planet's oil is and has always been the bottom line.

Under The Influence (Onearth)  -  Is industry becoming an inside player at the world's leading research center on carcinogens?

The War On Fat (The Atlantic)  -  No longer merely a matter of vanity, of personal health or of patriotism, today it is a burden on a global scale.

New Water Order  (AlterNet)  - One of the world’s leading water activists, says those working on water rights are “on the cusp of the most important issue of our time.”

The Good Neighbor Policy (CSMonitor)  - Why it's important to know your neighbors.

American Made? (Newsweek)  - How America helped make a monster.

The Shadow of Death (Red Pepper) - Amidst the debate about the causes of famine, the role of HIV and AIDS is evaded.

The Day The World Changed? (Debt Channel)  - It may well be so for many people but for the poorest in Afghanistan, life is as tough as ever.

A Vision Of Dystopia (Guardian) -  This is for real, not the sequel to a sci-fi thriller. The World Bank paints a picture of a catastrophic global future if we do not change the way we live.

Americans remember the human cost of Vietnam (Guardian) - With talk of conflict with Iraq...

Watershed or Washout? (Guardian) - Corporate America is facing its day of reckoning.

War: Who Is It Good For? (Guardian) - Bush is gambling that victory over Saddam will lift the US economy out of double-dip recession - but he risks sparking another oil crisis.

The Coming Water Crisis (U.S. News) - Many billions of dollars will be needed to quench America's thirst, but is private business the answer?

The Green Century (TIME) -  In Johannesburg, leaders will debate what to do about threats to our health, food, water, climate and biodiversity.

War Games (Guardian) - Iraq can play the victim card in a bid to stave off a US attack, but America's momentum could prove unstoppable.

First You Market the Disease... Then You Push Pills to Treat It (Guardian) - the ugly truth about doctors, PR firms and drug companies.

Shell Game  (Utne) - Congressional attempts to crack down on corporate fraud is the biggest fraud yet.

America at War in Macedonia  (GNN) - Washington's covert war in Macedonia purports to consolidate America's sphere of influence in southeastern Europe.

Oil and the Bush Administration  (Earth Island Journal) - If there are dangers in our dependency on foreign countries for oil resources, then shouldn't we reduce our oil use?

In God's Name, The Most Mortal Of Combat?  (USA Today) - ''Religion is the powder keg of the world.''

After the God Rush: The state of America's bosses  (Independent News) - is it the end of fat-cat culture altogether?

Will Living Longer Mean Growing Wiser? (PNS) - In the last 200 years, life expectancy worldwide has gone from about 25 years to more than 65.

'End of the World' On Peoples Mind  (TIME) - The biggest book of the summer is about the end of the world. It's also a sign of our troubled times.

Enemies By Any Other name Would Smell As Sweet  (GNN) - Oil-rich Saudi Arabia is a breeding ground of radical Islam.

World Con  (Guardian)  - Angry America shareholders discover the rot at the heart of the corporate way of life.

Goodbye To Where America Was  (Guardian) - "Alaska is what America was."

The Sweatshop Generation  (Guardian)  - "More than 350 million children around the world are engaged in work of some kind."

Trade Not Aid (Guardian) - The west demands that African countries adopt free-trade policies, then it floods the continent with subsidised goods which destroy their markets.

The Lost Girls of Sudan (BBC) - "In our culture, women are being dominated. Not just in Sudan, but in all of Africa."

The Way We Live In 2032 (Guardian) - This report poses a stark choice between destructive policies based on global market forces or embracing sustainable development.

Branding Cuba: La Vida Nike (AlterNet) - Being shunned by the global capitalist powers for a generation, however, really didn't hurt Cuba. Instead the embargo allowed it to develop into something unique.

Hot on the Contrails of Weather (Wired) - This research provides one of the strongest indicators that air travel itself changes our climate.

Buy, Buy Baby (AlterNet) - Some Palestinian groups have called for a ban on suicide bombings by teenagers

How Walmart is Remaking our World (AlterNet) - Corporations rule. No other institution comes close to matching the power that the 500 biggest corporations have amassed over us.

Silence of the Labs (On Earth) - Is a cozy alliance between Big Oil and Big Medicine is keeping things quiet.

Scientist Deaths Are Under the Microscope (Common Dreams) - Eleven micro- biologists mysteriously dead over the span of just five months. 

Cloning, Aside (ABC News) - Cloning may have the spotlight now.  But what dilemmas lie ahead?

Venezuela After The Coup (GNN) - More details about the attempted coup are beginning to emerge.

The Remastered Race (Wired) - Technology has pushed the eugenic moment to the point of conception.

Revolution Under Way (ABC) - Experts cite new strategies for helping the developing world.

When Wells Go Dry (Newsweek) - The rate of global oil production will start to fall in just a few years, says a controversial geologist. And alternative technologies aren’t ready yet.

L.A.'s Darkest Day (CSMonitor) - Ten years ago today, the worst race riot in US history erupted in L.A.

Oil Embargo II? (CSMonitor) - Memories of 1973 loom as gas prices rise and Iraq urges cutoff of oil

How Dry We Are (CBS) - Nationwide, droughts now cover about a third of the country, cutting huge swaths from Maine to Georgia in the East, and from Montana to Texas in the West.

An Oil Company Proves Bush Wrong On Climate Change (Tom Paine) - his company had decided that the risks of climate change justified precautionary action.

A New American Empire? (CSMonitor) - Terror war and oil expand US sphere of influence.

Sweet Water and Bitter (Resurgence) - A UN report claims that water, not oil, will be the next cause over which nations will go to war.

Civil Wars: The Road to Global Hell (PNS) - A plague of civil wars -- the most brutal wars in human history -- threatens to break out in the world.

Final Solution (Village Voice) - How IBM helped automate the Nazi death machine in Poland.

New World, But The Same Old Disorder (Guardian)- This is not the brave new world order, or the creative resetting of debate, envisioned after 11 September.

A Colombia Arms Deal and the Perils of Blowback (Wash Post)- it is worth asking where the rebels got their some of their vast supply of weapons?

Here, kitty, Kitty! (TIME) - If the first cloned house pet can melt your heart, how will you react to the first cloned child.

Bearing Witnesses to Two Ground Zeros (The Star) - "I want the image of America to be noble and strong," Sultan says. "If we care for other innocents just as we care for our World Trade Center victims, it reflects better on us.''

A Mass Grave or Prime Real Estate (Guardian) - A furious debate is raging over the future of Ground Zero as though it were a debate for America's soul.

For Trade Center Survivors, a Haunted Existence (Wash Post) - September 11, 2001: Six months after.

Men redundant? Now we don't need women either (Guardian) - Scientists have developed an artificial womb that allows embryos to grow outside the body.

Anthrax Murders' Mr. X -- A former US bioweapons reasearcher? (CSMonitor)- Operation Anaconda is revealing the troubling tenacity and cohesion of a die-hard enemy

Greed Inc. (GNN) - No one on the right can deny the economic falsehoods and deceptions inherent in the system.

America, The World's Next Great Empire (PNS) - Through NATO, through its dominance of global trade groups, and through a "war on terrorism" that is bringing its military to every corner of the Earth, America is fast becoming the world's next empire.

Enron, Like Al Qaeda, Hid Money Offshore (PNS) - How did Enron executives cause the world's biggest bankruptcy while making off with millions?

Enron's Human Toll (Salon) - How employees of the energy trader got sucked into stock market euphoria -- and catastrophe.

A Tale of Two Prisons: Australia vs. Cuba (ABC) - It's literally a tale of two prisons. Thousands of miles separate the two, but the common denominator is the detainees: many are Afghans. 

Do Cry for Argentina (Wash Post) - Globalization promised so much more than it has delivered, the crisis may foretell a wider political and psychological fatigue.

Public sees new global role for US (CSMonitor) - Among Americans, one lesson of terror attack is that US needs to look outward.

One Nation, Under Gold (News for Change ) - Why globalization needs to be thrown out.

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