Full Coverage: North America

31.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 31 (OneWorld) - It costs the United States more per month to prosecute its war in Iraq than it did to fight in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, according to a report released Wednesday.

31.08.2005 The US and Non-Aligned Movement could end the chance for UN reform by demanding sweeping last-minute changes, warns a leading development group.

31.08.2005 While US and Japan are preparing to equip the WTO’s Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (Trips) Agreement with provisions to safeguard national biodiversity and associated traditional knowledge, developing countries are lagging behind in their entrepreneurship in this regard.

31.08.2005 Alaskan Natives are staging a six-week vigil in Washington to protest the U.S. Congress' ninth attempt to pass legislation allowing for oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The indigenous groups say if the legislation passes, their culture and the refuge's natural wildlife will face extinction.

30.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 30 (OneWorld) - Chief executives at U.S. defense contractors have seen a 200-percent pay raise since the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, widening the chasm between compensation in the corner office and wages on the factory floor, a new report said Tuesday.

30.08.2005 The California Strawberry Commission is urged to hire a president committed to protecting children’s health by stopping the use of methyl bromide, a potent ozone layer-destroying pesticide.

30.08.2005 A senior United Nations official has accused US President George Bush of "doing damage to Africa" by cutting funding for condoms, a move which may jeopardise the successful fight against HIV and Aids in Uganda.

30.08.2005 The UK government was on Sunday blasted by development agencies for blowing £700,000 of a £3m relief project meant for Malawi—a country plagued by drought, HIV/AIDS, and a disastrous economy—on hotel bills and meals for U.S. consultants.

29.08.2005 La présente chronique est divisée en trois sections. La première replacera dans son contexte historique l’opposition centrale qui divise les Amériques jusqu’à ce jour, celle entre la vision hégémonique des États-Unis d’Amérique (EUA) et la vision de Bolivar. À cette fin, il sera aussi bien question du Traité de Gand de 1814, de la déclaration de Monroe de 1823, connue plus tard sous le nom de « doctrine Monroe », que de leurs effets sur le Canada. La deuxième section cherchera à illustrer certains des développements faits antérieurement en s’attardant sur le rôle du Canada en tant que promoteur de la démocratie. Quant à la troisième section, elle propose un tour d’horizon rapide de la conjoncture actuelle dans les Amériques, afin de mettre en lumière à quel point la fracture induite par la doctrine Monroe et sa réplique bolivarienne traverse encore et toujours le continent.

29.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 29 (OneWorld) - The Ugandan government said Monday it had condoms aplenty even as a top United Nations envoy and U.S.-based activists charged that a U.S. emphasis on promoting abstinence was jeopardizing the East African country's previously successful efforts to fight HIV/AIDS.

29.08.2005 The emergence of civil war between Sunnis and Shiites since Iraq's January elections, the logical consequence of the Bush administration’s tacit alliance with the Shiite majority, offers new arguments for U.S. withdrawal says Gareth Porter.

29.08.2005 Uganda's anti-condom campaign coupled with the U.S. government shifting global AIDS funding from prevention to abstinence-only programs, are causing acute shortages of condoms in the country, and endangering Uganda's previously successful prevention efforts, says the Center for Health and Gender Equity.

29.08.2005 The US military says it has released nearly 1,000 prisoners from Abu Ghraib jail in response to a request by Iraqi authorities.

26.08.2005 US advertisements offering bounty payments for the capture of Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar come up against Afghan conspiracy theories, reports Wahidullah Amani.

26.08.2005 Although some documents showing the judicial decisions that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts made during the Reagan administration have been released, several more prominent U.S. rights groups have joined the opposition to Roberts' candidacy for a seat in the nation's highest court.

25.08.2005 The Bush administration has proposed modest new fuel economy standards for the US's burgeoning fleet of large vehicles.

25.08.2005 U.S. environmentalists criticized a Bush administration proposal to raise fuel efficiency of light trucks by replacing current standards with a fleet-wide average standard, saying the proposed changes will do nothing to help American motorists at the pump, or reduce America's dependence on imported oil.

24.08.2005 Scientists say global warming is melting one of Canada's last remaining ice shelves.

24.08.2005 Despite facing a hostile occupation with a vested interest in their suppression, and an armed insurgency targeting unions and civil society, Iraq’s labor movement has done a remarkable job of organizing workers and even has more fledgling unions than the U.S., says David Bacon.

23.08.2005 American Indian activists applauded a new policy that bans colleges and universities who display "offensive or hostile" racial/ethnic mascots from hosting championship sports events. College athletic programs have long appropriated Indian names, rituals and practices, which "ridicule and denigrate" the contemporary Indian community, said the activists.