Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"The escalating crisis in Chechnya, and the deteriorating situation in Iraq, suggest that both the U.S. and the Russians are still considering such an agreement. For Bush, the advantage of Russian help is obvious. Even though the polls seem to show increasing support for the President, these do not translate into stability in Iraq before the elections here or there."

"The Israeli government’s initiative for unilateral disengagement is already heading for derailment. Its failing points are built into the plan itself – unilateralism."

"...the motive for such revisionism might also be to create myths about the origins of certain groups that substantiate their claims to special entitlements, exceptional needs, and superior status above other human beings."

"...Bush will not retreat from Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? Because he is not occupying these countries. By ‘liberating' them, he has ‘fulfilled God’s mission under the “Manifest Destiny.”

"The UK has the second highest teenager pregnancy rate in the Western world. Over a million young Americans have already taken the Silver Ring Pledge. The British Humanist regards it the latest cranky Christian concept from America and has the full support of George W Bush with one million dollars as part of his campaign to replace sex education."