Monthly Archive: November 2004

French forces opened fire Tuesday as thousands of angry government loyalists massed outside an evacuation post for foreigners, reportedly killing seven people and wounding 200 in violence pitting France against its former prize colony...

A federal judge ruled Monday that President Bush had both overstepped his constitutional bounds and improperly brushed aside the Geneva Conventions in establishing military commissions to try detainees at the United States naval base...

Dr. Hamid Mohammed, speaking from a makeshift clinic that is serving Falloujans after U.S. and Iraqi forces took over Fallouja General Hospital early Monday, said that 15 dead and 20 injured people had been...

Bumped into David Duchovny, almost literally, this morning when I ran across the road and between two trailers that were blocking the road by St Mark’s Church. Almost ran into some guy, dodged, looked...

Operations by U.S. and multinational forces and Iraqi police are killing twice as many Iraqis – most of them civilians – as attacks by insurgents, according to statistics compiled by the Iraqi Health Minister...

With King Bush confirmed for a second reign, I expect that the impending assault on Fallujah, long delayed and postponed, will now get a green light. It was patently obvious that he wanted to...

I’ve been thinking a lot about “liberal democracy” lately, especially when I read a long article lauding the achievements of “The Enlightenment”. I take a more cynical view of the Enlightment ideology vs practice....