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Mountains of Trouble
Headlines on mountaintop removal rarely cross state lines into national coverage. The mining tactic blows up peaks for easy coal removal, replacing thousands of workers with TNT and clogging watersheds with sediment. (Earth First!)

Oil-for-Food Fault Lines
Harper's Magazine and The Independent point fingers away from malfeasance by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and toward the U.S.-steered Security Council, which designed Iraq's pre-invasion emergency oil-sales program and approved its sketchy policies and trades.

U.S. Border Moves South
Evidence is mounting that a U.S. military mission at an Ecuadorian base in Manta is creeping from counternarcotics to migrant-smuggling interdiction and other lease-violating activities. (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, North American Congress on Latin America, Z Magazine)

Migration Inc.
Interhemispheric Resource Center, Washington Free Press, and MotherJones.com report that corporate dependence on a steady stream of low-paid workers without benefits is the force driving the U.S. guest-worker plan.

Size Matters
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that little light has been shed on nanotechnology's dark side-namely, the possibility that the minute molecules could pass through barriers in the body and cause harm.

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