Author: mike

New intelligence assessments are warning that the United States’ most formidable foe in Iraq in the months ahead may be the resentment of ordinary Iraqis increasingly hostile to the U.S. military occupation … That...

Vice President Dick Cheney, anxious to defend the White House foreign policy amid ongoing violence in Iraq, stunned intelligence analysts and even members of his own administration this week by failing to dismiss a...

So apparently the EPA was told to bury its findings that the air in Manhattan was super-toxic, so that Wall Street could re-open as quickly as possible. If the World Trade Center debris had...

What did all the PLUR go? The 18-year-old victim said he met Krystle Ann Cole Skinner and Gordon Todd Skinner at a rave party, and dated Krystle Skinner while the couple had temporarily broken...

So the Associated Press did a review of Colin Powell’s “evidence” that he presented to the UN 6 months ago as a causus belli to invade Iraq. Apparently, most of Powell’s allegations were bogus,...

President Bush paused in his Labor Day remarks about jobs and told his audience of union members, “I want you to think back to that fateful day, September the 11th, and what happened afterwards.”...

They could also make them into dogmeat smoothies… Cambodians are being urged to eat more dogs as part of a crackdown on stray mutts wandering around the capital of the southeast Asian nation …...

The concept that the president of the United States is flat-out lying about the sustainability of his own economic policy -� that’s too high a hill for them to climb. And I guess the...

While I have issues about the framing implicit in the use of the adjective “temporary”, someone on Slashdot posted a useful follow-up to my old Labour/Capital piece, which I’d reposted there. Apparently minds more...

I read this with some amazement. The new Fed airplane screening process is going to use supermarket purchases, library records, and credit histories to red-flag around 1-2% of all people attempting to fly in...