Gee, what reason would these people have to be so angry? Note that the refugees accuse the guerilla leader who signed the peace deal of being a traitor. Note that they are very eager for Western, and especially American intervention…. Read moreUprising at Darfur refugee camp
There’s oil in Cuba! Can the invasion be far behind? Actually, the fact that this story (complete with maps of the divided offshore zone and the exploration blocs) appears on the front page of today’s New York Times indicates that… Read moreCuba opens Florida Straits oil zone
This sort of thing has become so common in Iraq that it rarely makes headlines any more. But this one inconveniently happened just as a break has been announced in the deadlock over forming a new government. This obvious escalation… Read moreIraq: bomb blast greets new government
From The Jurist, May 8: Afghan parliament descends into chaos as lawmakers attack female legislator The floor of the Afghan parliament has witnessed its first outbreak of violence, with lawmakers physically and verbally assaulting a controversial female legislator who called… Read moreAfghanistan: woman legislator physically attacked on parliament floor
The BBC reports today that price of oil is back up to over $70 a barrel following a drop of more than $1.50 following news yesterday that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had written Bush a personal letter. This was initially… Read moreAhmadinejad letter signals escalation
As we have noted, more sophisticated minds have questioned his math. From AFP, May 6: WASHINGTON: United States President George W Bush has said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the… Read moreBush: GWOT is World War III
The conservative Baptist Press News (May 5) chalks this up (pretty damn blatantly) as a victory for a gringo pressure campaign. That spin will not serve Fox well, as a sudden upsurge of peasant and labor unrest is sending Mexico… Read moreMexico: Fox caves in on decrim law
Gee, what an astonishing success the Global War on Terrorism has been. From the LA Times, April 29: U.S. Reports a Surge in Global Terrorism The count has soared since the Iraq invasion, but only now are attacks there being… Read moreState Department: global terrorism surges
We noted nearly a year ago that the US was seeking permanent military bases in Bulgaria, a former Warsaw Pact member strategically located on the Black Sea—just north of the Bosphorus-Dardanelles choke-point, perfect for either policing a US-controlled pipeline for… Read moreUS seals deal on Bulgaria bases
We wish we were joking. What a shame nobody noticed this—the little note in the second section about the Halliburton contract (emphasis added) should have been front-page news in every paper in the country. Back on Feb. 23, Nat Perry… Read moreHalliburton wins concentration camp contract
A good thing we all know global warming is only a myth. From MSNBC, May 2: BEIJING — Glaciers covering China’s Qinghai-Tibet plateau are shrinking by 7 percent a year due to global warming and the environmental consequences may be… Read moreTibet: glaciers melting fast
From AP, May 3: Sonar tied to deaths of 400 dolphins? Zanzibar scientists look for clues; U.S. Navy task force in area ZANZIBAR – Scientists are studying the remains of some of the 400 dolphins that washed up dead on… Read moreMeanwhile, the dolphins are dying…
