President George W Bush is threatening to stop humanitarian aid to nations daring to refuse his demands to grant Americans immunity from the world's first war crimes tribunal, the International Criminal Court.

Bush will cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid to nations supporting the ICC but have not signed a so-called "bilateral immunity agreement" with the Bush regime.

Home of the brave? Land of the free?

By blindly pursuing its scarcely sane unilateralist agenda the Bush clique have not only turned the USA into a global pariah but have subverted America's Constitution and the sacred principles of democracy upon which it was founded.

Among the crusading US President's core constituencies is one acutely demented group of bible-bashers praying for environmental degradation and the end of the world.

Why?

Because the end of the world marks the beginning of... the Rapture!

When Bill Moyers, one of America's most respected and admired journalists (and founder of Public Affairs TV in Washington) retired three months ago, he was awarded the annual Global Environmental Citizen Award by the Harvard Medical School. This is an edited version of Moyers' acceptance speech.

Read it and weep.