Monthly Archive: July 2003

The second reason Iraq’s recovery will be delayed — if not bungled altogether — is the United States’ dogged refusal to cede any responsibility for the occupation to the United Nations. As a result,...

I noticed a followup to the US attack on Syrian SUVs and towns story. Apparently, it was a convoy of natural gas smugglers, and 80 people were killed by the US on the basis...

Mokhiber: Ari, in the 2002 election campaign, the Republican Party took in $7.2 million from convicted criminals. Is the President okay with his party taking millions of dollars from convicted criminals? Ari Ari Fleischer:...

How utterly convenient that David Kelly, a former UN weapons inspector, and probably the “mole” in UK intelligence who revealed that the UK’s “intelligence” on Iraq was a work of fiction, disappeared and was...

So now the Bush Gang are trying to do an Orwell on recent history. The fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him...

Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than half a million men each...

San Francisco has been confirmed as the fastest-shrinking city in the US, where the population declined by 1.5% within one 12-month period last year. SF is shrinking faster than even Flint, Michigan! Having been...

I said it a few days ago – Cheney is looking more and more like the fall guy and his political rivals have scented blood. Cheney’s managed to weasel out of various previous corruption...

Nothing I say could embellish this disturbing story.

Dressed in white mop-up suits, with “Citizens Weapons Inspection Team” printed on the back and “Disarmament Specialists” on the front, Dominican Sisters Ardeth Platte, Carol Gilbert and Jackie Hudson entered Minuteman III silo N-8...