Democrats Will Not Fight Roberts. “Democrats have decided that unless there is an unexpected development in the weeks ahead, they will not launch a major fight to block the Supreme Court nomination” of John Roberts, the Washington Post reports. Their…

U.S. corporations march into Baghdad, at the expense of self-determination. By Antonia Juhasz, Antonia Juhasz is a scholar with the think tank Foreign Policy In Focus. Her book “The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time” will…

Apple blunder gives Gates iPod royalty Apple Computer may be forced to pay royalties to Microsoft for every iPod it sells after it emerged that Bill Gates’s software giant beat Steve Jobs’ firm in the race to file a crucial…

From the L.A. Times Margaret Staley draws $47,000 a year as a postal supervisor, but says the only home she can afford to live in belongs to her parents. “When you make this kind of money, and you can’t even…

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has warned the US to back away from the possibility of military action against Iran over its nuclear programme.