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Baghdad burns, Calgary booms

Rather than in Iraq, the U.S. has found its "energy security blanket" next door.

World Bank sullied before Wolfowitz

It's not the act itself; it's the hypocrisy. That's the line on Paul Wolfowitz, coming from editorial pages around the world.

It's a class war in Baron Black's court

During the jury-selection pro ­cess at the Conrad Black fraud trial in Chicago, the judge polled potential jurors on their impressions of Black's home, Canada. "Socialist country...

U.S. interrogation may finally be put to trial

Lawyers claim “extended torture” of extreme sensory deprivation has left prisoner unable to defend himself

Media overlook history of American torture

It was the Mission: Accomplished of George W. Bush's second term, and an announcement of that magnitude called for a suitably dramatic location. But what was the right...

Indigenous groups transform Latin America

When Manuel Rozental got home one night last month, friends told him two strange men had been asking questions about him. In this close-knit indigenous community in...

New Orleans needs people's reconstruction

On September 4, six days after Katrina hit, I saw the first glimmer of hope. "The people of New Orleans will not go quietly into the night, scattering across this country to...

Terror's greatest recruitment tool

Hussain Osman, one of the men alleged to have participated in London's failed bombings on July 21, recently told Italian investigators that he prepared for the attacks by...

U.S. and UN to blame for the misery in Haiti

When United Nations troops kill residents of the Haitian slum Cité Soleil, friends and family often place photographs of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on their...

Idea of resisting the unspeakably rich lives on

Gordon Brown has a new idea about how to "make poverty history" in time for the G8 summit in Scotland. With Washington so far refusing to double its aid to Africa by 2015, the...