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The tactical question today is this: What can critics do to persuade the voters that (1) this war is a colossal mistake, (2) our troops' continued presence in the Middle East is an equally colossal mistake, and (3) American troops must get out of
At the 1977 Libertarian Party Convention, mind-expansion advocate and LSD guru Timothy Leary gave a speech that few of us took very seriously. He spoke of something called the Internet.
In the case of the American imperium, such as it is, the builders seem largely to have been in the hire of our vice president's favorite corporation, Halliburton (and its subsidiary KBR). So here's a quick whirl through the monuments of our e
This is America, and if Americans share a common trait, it's rebellion at those who wield power. Well, they used to, anyway - most of them. Remember, this country was born in revolution.
We have a lot to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. Indictments,, leaked memos, whistleblowers, extraditions, investigations ... looks like my stocking will be full this Christmas!
The Bush administration is unraveling before our eyes, which almost certainly means that despite belligerent rhetoric, just now the Iraq war should begin to wind down. That could set the stage for a wide-ranging national debate/discussion on the futu
The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news and to the World Wide Web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power.
The Pilgrims learned about free choice after they arrived aboard the Mayflower and established Plymouth Colony in the winter of 1620-1621. The prevailing conditions during that and the following winter were ones of famine and death.
Hundreds of villagers have been evacuated from their homes along a river in northeast China after an explosion at a petrochemical plant upstream dumped 100 tonnes of toxic chemicals in the water, local media said on Friday.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard faces opposition from all sides but is still expected to succeed in pushing through contentious workplace reforms and tough anti-terror laws starting next week.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new centrist party would win a March election, altering Israel's political map by crushing rightists opposed to peacemaking with the Palestinians, surveys found on Friday.
News organizations in the U.K. can no longer report the contents of the memo but a report from London's Channel 4 News questions this first and historic use of the Official Secrets Act against the press. Their reporting concludes that White House
Satellite images could help determine if the CIA ran secret prisons in Europe. "With the help of precise geographic coordinates which I have obtained, it would be possible to obtain high-definition satellite images taken between the beginning o
When a chemical plant leaked poison into a river in northeastern China, sparking a calamity this week, regional officials employed a time-tested strategy to quash the bad news: They lied.
The internet entrepreneur Craig Newmark, whose Craigslist site provided a hugely successful free alternative to classified advertising, has trained his sights on the old-fashioned newspaper industry. A groundswell of distrust for reporters -- ordinar
A US company has been given a two-year contract to help fight piracy off the Somalia coast - seen as among the world's most dangerous waters. Topcat Marine Security will target the "mother ship" launching pirate ships from the open sea,
Tensions among Shiites, Sunni and Kurds — held mostly in check during Saddam's rule — are seemingly always on the boil these days. Politics is defined by loyalty to tribe, religion and ethnicity.
NBC did not interrupt its broadcast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade to bring viewers the news that an M&M balloon had injuring 2 sisters. When the time came for the M&Ms' appearance, NBC weaved in tape of the balloon at last year's
“I was told, ‘he’s still an enemy combatant according to the president and therefore they can still detain him at anytime.”
Palestinians took control of a border for the first time Friday with the festive opening of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, a milestone on their rocky path to independence and a rare moment of joy for fenced-in Gazans.
Three Catholic clergy are facing prison sentences in the US after acts of civil disobedience against a military training school which teaches torture techniques. Protests began 16 years ago, and since then 180 people have served federal prison senten
Prosecutors in the fraud divisions are looking into Mr. Abramoff's interactions with former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Rep. Bob Ney, Rep. John Doolittle (R., Calif.) and Sen. Conrad Burns (R., Mont.).
Don't you want to know whether Jose Padilla, the American citizen held as an enemy combatant from June 2002 until this week, was indeed conspiring—or even ringleading—a plot to set off a "dirty bomb" somewhere inside the United States?
When the UK Presidency suggested to the EU that telecoms service providers and ISPs should be forced to retain information about the telephone calls you make and the sites you visit might help the recording industry fish for file-sharing networks, DR
...there are a lot of living people on the FDLE site who are no threat to you either. Sex Offenders who live outside Florida, are in prison or who have been deported are all listed among the 36,037 sex criminals registered with the FDLE. The more reg
The British assessments of Israeli intentions is jeopardising the prospect of a peace agreement by trying to put the future of Arab East Jerusalem beyond negotiation and risks driving Palestinians living in the city into radical groups.
Fears that fresh revelations about disputes between Tony Blair and George Bush on the Iraq conflict could damage Downing Street's intimate relationship with the White House prompted this week's unprecedented threat against national newspapers
Released a phone-book-thick proposed rule that would give the federal government new powers to track the comings and goings of individual travelers and greater efforts by airlines and others to obtain personal contact information from travelers
Staff at Arabic news broadcaster al-Jazeera have held protests over UK media reports that US President George W Bush wanted to attack its Qatar HQ.
In the desperate days after Hurricane Katrina: Police had caught eight snipers on a bridge shooting at relief contractors. In the gun battle that followed, officers shot to death five or six of the marauders. Wasn't true.
