Reviving a perennial theme of the reigning energy oligarchs, President Bush told the National Small Business Week Conference in DC April 27 that more nuclear plants are the answer to rising oil costs. “We’ve got a fundamental question we got… Read moreBush: Yes nukes!
Five Muslim-Americans have filed suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security claiming racial profiling after they were detained and fingerprinted by border agents upon crossing back into the U.S. from a religious conference in Canada. The suit, filed in… Read moreMuslims sue Homeland Security
Seven suspected Islamist militants have been ordered to stand trial in Italy, charged with belonging to a cell that planned to recruit suicide bombers for attacks in Iraq, judicial officials said. The police closed in on the seven in May… Read moreItaly: jihadi cell broken?
M. Cherif Bassiouni, a professor of law at DePaul University in Chicago who was the UN Human Rights Commission’s independent expert for Afghanistan, released a 21-page report last week, accusing U.S. military forces and civilian contractors of “engaging in arbitrary… Read moreUN investigator on U.S. abuses in Afghanistan: out
The “peak oil” theory, which remains the domain of the wacko fringe in the U.S., appears to be taken rather more seriously in the U.K., where several members of parliament have signed on to a petition circulated by an alternative-energy… Read moreUK petition on “peak oil”
It is looking more and more like Egypt is heading towards a reprise of the “dirty war” between Islamist insurgents and security forces that shook the country in the ’90s. From Haaretz: Last update – 22:34 30/04/2005 Two Israelis hurt… Read moreMore terror in Cairo
Here’s a textbook case in how the reigning anti-Semitic propaganda system works, with the paradoxical complicity of certain powerful (and deluded) Jews. This propaganda system is all the more effective for being nearly universally unrecognized. Turkey is one of the… Read more“Jewish lobby” denies Armenian genocide
It is a looming nightmare for Washington, but Mexico may be the next to join the fast-growing loose alliance of left-populist governments in Latin America, if Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the left-opposition Party of the Democratic… Read moreMexico: Fox blinks in showdown over presidential race
Taxi driver, pregnant passenger, pedestrian in critical condition April 26, 2005, 12:31 PM EDT NEW YORK — A taxi driver whose out-of-control cab set off a chain reaction of crashes at Times Square remained in critical condition on Tuesday, as… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah met with George Bush in his ranch in Crawford, TX, April 25, where unprecedentedly escalating oil prices obviously dominated the agenda. The reactionary NY Post ran a front-cover story “THE HIGH PRICE OF OIL,” with… Read morePrince Abdullah schmoozes at Bush ranch
Joseph Mussomeli, charge d’affairs at the U.S. embassy in Manila, was quoted April 11 as saying that the southern island of Mindanao, where U.S. and Philippine forces are battling Muslim rebels, could be the next Afghanistan. According to a report… Read moreMindanao: “Next Afghanistan”?
Largely gone from the headlines and overshadowed by the horrorshow in Iraq, violence continues in Afghanistan, especially in the Taliban-sympathetic zone along that Pakistan border. We recently reported on an especially grisly incident involving U.S. troops. Now comes a similarly… Read moreAfghan border violence continues
