Tropical Storm Florence forms (AP)

(AP) -- Tropical Storm Florence formed Tuesday in the open Atlantic, becoming the sixth named storm of the 2006 hurricane season.

The End of Eden (Michael Powell)

James Lovelock Says This Time We've Pushed the Earth Too Far Michael Powell -- Washington Post ST. GILES-ON-THE-HEATH, England -- Sept. 2, 2006 --Through a deep and tangled wood lies a glade so lovel ...

Empire in the Mirror (Manuel Valenzuela)

Empire -- A Tribe on Steroids Manuel Valenzuela -- World News Trust Sept. 5, 2006 -- Inside the belly of the beast can the harbinger of what is to come be seen, for the internal machinations of the P ...

Inalienable Human Rights Are Not Privileges (Jason Miller)

ACLU Sets the Standard in Struggle for “Liberty and Justice for All” Jason Miller -- World News Trust Sept. 4, 2006 -- Ecclesiastes tells us there is "no new thing under the sun." Marsha West’s artic ...

It Goes Deeper than Donald (Mary Lyon -- From The Left)

Mary Lyon -- World News Trust Sept. 3, 2006 -- Donald Scumsfeld does it again. I’ve been stewing about this for almost a week now. No. I take that back. It goes back WAY farther than that. WAY farthe ...

Israel Said To Fear War Crimes Charges (Matti Friedman)

By MATTI FRIEDMAN -- Associated Press Sept. 4, 2006 -- Three weeks after a cease-fire ended Israel's monthlong war against Hezbollah guerrillas, Israel is increasingly concerned that government offic ...

The People’s Struggle In The Middle East -- An Interview With Ramzy Baroud (Joshua Frank)

By Joshua Frank -- World News Trust Sept. 4, 2006 -- Ramzy Baroud is a U.S. author and journalist, currently based in London. He is the author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a Peo ...

Nightmare Mortgages (Mara Der Hovanesian)

Mara Der Hovanesian -- Business Week Sept. 1, 2006 -- For cash-strapped homeowners, it was a pitch they couldn't refuse: Refinance your mortgage at a bargain rate and cut your payments in half. New h ...

Welcome to world peace (Charles Kurzman & Neil Englehardt)

By Charles Kurzman and Neil Englehart -- Christian Science Monitor CHAPEL HILL, N.C. AND BOWLING GREEN, OHIO -- Aug. 30, 2006 -- World peace was not supposed to look like this. It was supposed to be ...

A Democratic Dictatorship (Jacob G. Hornberger)

by Jacob G. Hornberger -- LewRockwell.com Aug. 31, 2006 -- Amidst all the discussion and debate about whether President Bush has violated the law by ordering the National Security Agency to record te ...

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Dead (News.com.au)

News.com.au Sept. 3, 2006 -- The Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, is dead. He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, Australia, police sources said Sunday. It is understood he was killed by a stingr ...