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2005

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2005

• IT, Consumer-Electronics Sectors Face Collision With Trade Laws - Wall Street Journal 13dec2005

• Iraq: Official Count at 2,035 American - New York Times 6nov2005

• Hugo Chávez Denounces US Policy in Latin America -  Financial Times (UK) 4nov2005

• Pirates Fire at Luxury Liner Seabourn Spirit: Terrified British passengers cower as rocket-propelled grenades and bullets hit £20,000-a-trip ship - The Independent (UK) 6nov2005

• Far From Home, Bush Can't Escape Political Headaches - USA Today 4nov2005

• Unlimited Militarisation: Delusions of World Hegemony - Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, Former Chief of the Naval Staff India 17oct2005
• US, India To Sign Science, Technology Pact - Agence France-Presse (France) 13oct2005
• International Criminal Court: Bush's Aid Cuts on Court Issue Roil Neighbors -  New York Times 19aug2005
• Chevron Paid Nigerian Troops After Alleged Killing - San Francisco Chronicle 4aug2005
• Iraq: Unacceptable Regimes in Iraq and the United States: Occupied Zones Howard Zinn / Le Monde diplomatique (France) 1aug2005
• Bush Bypasses Congress to Appoint Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations - The Economist (UK) and more 1aug2005
• China: Yen Surges as China Revalues Yuan: Dollar Decline Against Yen Translates into Drop vs. Europe -  MarketWatch (plus others) 21jul2005
• CAFTA And Dietary Supplements -  Rense 19jul2005
• CAFTA in Venezuela: If USA-Dominated CAFTA Goes into Effect, Deaths Will Shoot Through the Roof  -  VHeadline.com (Venezuela) 14jul2005
• CAFTA Good For U.S. - Donald H Rumsfeld / Commentary / The Miami Herald 8jul2005
• G8 Summit: Behind This New Interest in Africa - Interview with Devinder Sharma of New Delhi, India -  IPS 5jul2005
• United States: The Slide To Disorder -  Le Monde diplomatique (France) 1jul2005
• CAFTA: Bush Sends CAFTA Bill to Congress - UPI 23jun2005 
• CAFTA: Thousands of US Businesses Urge Bush to Scrap CAFTA - Citizens Trade Campaign 21jun2005
• India: The Business of Hunger: ICT and Millennium Development Goals  - Devinder Sharma (India) 17jun2005
• Wolfowitz Apologizes Over Rwanda Genocide -  Reuters 16jun2005

• Coca-Cola in India: Indian Village Refuses US Cola Giant Licence to Exploit Ground Water - Agence France-Presse 14jun2005

• US Homeland Security: Emergency Preparedness Against the "Universal Adversary" -  Centre for Research on Globalisation 5jun2005

• Bush: China's Trade Practices Unfair - AP (and others) 29may2005
• U.S. Revives WTO Case Against European Aid to Airbus -  Bloomberg (plus others) 20may2005
• Tough Calls on Economy and Politics Lie Ahead for EU - Financial Times (UK) 30may2005
• French 'No' Vote Blocks EU Treaty - Wall Street Journal 30may2005
• Blair Set for Crisis Summit after France Rejects EU Treaty - PA / The Scotsman 30may2005
• French Voters Reject First European Union Constitution; President Chirac Plans to Keep Pushing -  AP 29may2005
• Iran: WTO to Start Talks to Admit Iran -  New York Times 27may2005
• Italy's Unicredito Is in Talks To Buy HVB of Germany, Create a New Powerhouse -  Wall Street Journal 26may2005
• U.S. 'Thumbs Its Nose' at Rights - New York Times 26may2005
• Dutch Discontent Ahead of EU Poll -  UPI 25may2005
• Bilderberg 2005: The World in the Palm of Their Hands - Online Journal 24may2005
• Ecuador Gets Chavez'd - The Nation 11may2005
• Pascal Lamy: The Politics of Consensus - Devinder Sharma / Mindfully.org 15may2005
• Bill Clinton Seeks to Be a Global Fix-It Man -  Wall Street Journal 6may2005
• Wal-Mart: Exposing the Wal-Mart Empire -  Street Spirit (Oakland, CA) 1may2005
• New Ecuador Government Struggles for Legitimacy - Press Release / Embassy of Ecuador 25apr2005
• U.S. Trade Deficit Expanded To $61.04 Billion in February - Wall Street Journal 12apr2005
• Afghanistan: US Scatters Bases to Control Eurasia - Asia Times (Hong Kong) 30mar2005

• India: Now Law Lets Women Work the Night Shift - Indian Express (Mumbai) 30mar2005

• U.S., Canada, Mexico to Sign Accord -  AP 23mar2005

• Coca-Cola Announces Changes To Marketing, Europe Groups - Wall Street Journal 23mar2005

• Monsanto Chalks Up Crop of Global Biotech Victories - AP 19mar2005

• Wolfowitz Nominated for World Bank: Deputy Defense Secretary Could Meet Resistance Over Role in Iraq Planning -  Wall Street Journal 17mar2005

• Iraq: Plowing for Profits U.S.: Agribusiness Eyes Iraq’s Fledgling Markets -  In These Times 15mar2005

• India: Soft Drinks, Hard Cases - Vandana Shiva / Le Monde diplomatique (France) 14mar2005

• Asia Subsidises the United States' Debts: A Currency of Exorbitant Privilege -  Le Monde diplomatique (France) 14mar2005

• Rumsfeld Details Big Military Shift In New Document: Drive for Pre-emptive Force, Wider Influence Will Trigger Changes in Strategy, Budget - Wall Street Journal 11mar2005

• US Unlikely to Concede to Third World Agenda -  The Financial Express (India) 7mar2005

• India: Parched Village Sues to Shut Tap at Coke: Drought-hit Indians say Plant Draining Groundwater - SF Chronicle 6mar2005

• International Criminal Court: U.S. Threatens Bolivia to Secure Criminal Court Immunity - Pacific News Service / Berkeley Daily Planet 4mar2005
• Wal-Mart 'Terrorism' in Montreal  - Socialist Action 1mar2005
• Vietnamese Victims Sue Over Agent Orange in NYC Court - Democracy Now! 28feb2005
• World Order, Failed States and Terrorism -  Asia Times 3feb2005
• Return to Eden: Lands Ravaged by Years of War Can be Returned to Plenty, But it Takes More Than Cash and Fertiliser - New Scientist 22jan2005

• Wal-Mart: Congressional Investigation into Bush Administration’s Sweetheart Deal With Wal-Mart On Labor Violations Called For - Representative George Miller (D-CA) 14feb2005

• India: New Amendments to Patents Act, 1970 to Affect Farm Sector - Financial Express (India) 3jan05