From Iraq scholar Juan Cole’s Informed Comment website. While we share Prof. Cole’s concern about civil war in Iraq, we question whether the US troop presence is forestalling or hastening it… Monday, August 22, 2005 Ten Things Congress Could Demand… Read moreJuan Cole weighs in on Iraq withdrawal
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating allegations that several Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation agents assaulted and tortured Nigerian detainee Daso Abibo at the ICE office in Oklahoma City on June 14, 2004. FBI spokesperson Gary Johnson… Read moreFBI probes ICE torture case
On Aug. 13, New Mexico governor Bill Richardson declared a state of emergency for counties along the Mexico border. Governor Janet Napolitano did the same for Arizona on Aug. 15. The states of emergency allow the two governors to spend… Read more“State of emergency” in Southwest border states
It will certainly be an edifying sight. Instead of Israeli military bulldozers destroying modest Palestinian homes to make way for garish and profligate suburban-style Jewish settlements, it’ll be the other way ’round. In the Gaza Strip, the world will witness… Read moreDe-suburbanification of Gaza: model for West Bank —and USA?
You can add your very own John Hancock to this following bit of levity at PetitionOnline. So far they have 726, which seems pretty insufficient for something so self-evident, so we thought we’d help spread the word: To: President of… Read morePetition: George Bush is a horse’s ass
“Robertson Apologizes for Chavez Remark” reads the Fox News headline Aug. 24. Actually, what he did was lie about what he said. From Blog for America, Aug. 25: Pat Robertson announced yesterday that his comments on last weekend’s “700 Club”… Read morePat Robertson: liar
The metronomically predictable Ann Coulter is the latest to jump all over Cindy Sheehan for something she didn’t say. Writes Ann for FrontPageMag Aug. 18: On the bright side, Sheehan shows us what Democrats would say if they thought they… Read moreAnn Coulter, Fox News, etc.: liars
The standoff between President Bush and Cindy Sheehan is escalating again, with emotional appeals from both sides, each invoking sacrifices made by Americans after 9-11, the Washington Post reports Aug. 26. In a briefing for reporters after her return to… Read moreSheehan vs. Bush: propaganda war escalates
From New York Newsday: Driver unknowingly crushes elderly woman in tragic case BY JEROME BURDI and ROCCO PARASCANDOLA STAFF WRITERS August 27, 2005 An elderly woman who survived Auschwitz was killed Friday morning after she was run over by a… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
A forthcoming book by former FBI consultant claims al-Qaeda has acquired a stockpile of nuclear weapons, that some are already planted in major US cities, and the group is actively seeking more. Citing documents purportedly seized in Afghanistan, author Paul… Read moreAl-Qaeda ready to go nuclear?
The Economist writes in its Aug. 18-25 issue that last week, in a landmark speech in Diyarbakir, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the first Turkish leader ever to admit that Turkey had mishandled the Kurdish rebellion in the country’s… Read morePKK ceasefire in Turkey; new attacks in Iran
After more than 20 years in captivity, 404 prisoners of war have returned home to Morocco, the last of more than 2,400 freed by Western Sahara’s Polisario Front independence movement. Two privately chartered planes carrying the prisoners, some of them… Read moreLast Moroccan POWs freed by Western Sahara guerillas
