Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/pers-m19.shtml

This document was clearly intended as a rebuttal to the annual US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009, released two days earlier.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8575627.stm

Hundreds of Cuban government supporters have heckled members of the "Ladies in White" rights group marching in protest through the streets of Havana. The women - wives and mothers of jailed dissidents - are staging a week of protests on the anniversary of Fidel Castro's 2003 Black Spring crackdown.

Link: http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=courierpostonline&sParam=33053469.story

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday took to the Fox News Channel, derided by his White House as a wing of the Republican Party, to sell his embattled health care overhaul in an interview punctuated with interruptions from the host and chiding from the guest.

Link: http://www.seattlepi.com/business/1310ap_us_immigration.html?source=mypi

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, facing criticism from advocates of immigration reform, pledged Thursday "to do everything in my power" to get immigration legislation moving in Congress this year.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/us/19jane.html?ref=us

The Pennsylvania woman accused of recruiting men on the Internet to wage jihad in southern Asia and Europe pleaded not guilty Thursday to all counts in federal court in Philadelphia.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/03/2010318153714888868.html

Russia and the United States have made "substantial progress" in negotiating a new nuclear arms disarmament deal, the US secretary of state has said.

Link: http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=courierpostonline&sParam=33046397.story

WASHINGTON — The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street. The terror cases that have emerged in the past week have one common characteristic: The suspects are all Americans. One is a woman who looked after the elderly in suburban Pennsylvania. Another a security guard from New Jersey.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/17/us-muslims-court-pakistan-terror

Five young US Muslims were charged today with plotting terrorism in Pakistan in a case that has generated concerns that Americans are heading to the country to join militant groups.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/geor-m17.shtml

Viewers of the 8pm Saturday news broadcast by the Imedi network in the former Soviet republic of Georgia switched on their televisions to see an invading force of Russian tanks and soldiers heading towards the capital, Tbilisi, while bombs fell across the country. Over this footage an announcer declared that the Georgian government had fallen and the country’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, was dead.

Link: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/americas/2010/03/16/everything-stops-tea

Hundreds of Tea Party activists rallied outside the US Congress on Tuesday in protest at President Barack Obama’s almost $900bn healthcare reform. The group of mostly rightwing grassroots protesters are opposed to the way the administration is driving healthcare through congress.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/mar/16/dickcheney-iraq

Lest we forget: on 16 March 2003 Dick Cheney appeared on Meet The Press to make the Bush administration's case for the US invasion of Iraq. Hindsight is a wonderful thing of course but we now know that Cheney had no basis for claiming the things that he claimed that day, and that he himself knew there was little or no evidence for the words coming out of his mouth.

Link: http://www.economyincrisis.org/content/many-nations-surpassing-us-education

Education has always been the backbone of American productivity, for generations American students were the best and brightest the world had to offer. Unfortunately, for nearly 20 years the state of primary and secondary education in America has fallen off.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/bronwen_maddox/article7063203.ece

President Obama does not have to look as far as Afghanistan to find a drugs war, a failing state and violence that threatens the US’s stability. He can look south to Mexico, to a conflict that is bound to displace far-flung troublespots in US preoccupations.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/15/AR2010031503730.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Dick Armey is intellectually versatile: The former leader of House Republicans went from being a rainmaker for a Washington lobbying firm to being the unofficial leader of the anti-Washington "tea party" movement.