Author: mike

When the two Palestinian suicide bombers each killed an Israeli civilian along with themselves on August 12, U.S. news outlets immediately depicted the attacks as an apparent resurgence in Mideast violence. “Summer truce shattered...

At the meeting, the soldiers announced that they were going to supervise elections for a local council and asked people to put themselves forward as candidates. The council members would not be paid, they...

U.S. authorities in Iraq have all but exhausted nearly $1 billion in seized assets used to pay Iraqi civil servants … U.S. officials in Iraq told visiting lawmakers that as little as $10 million...

As happens every time, many people are prepared to do whatever it takes to wallow in playa. Do people really fall for scams like this? Or are they narcs, seeking to entrap dump people?...

Getting ready for Burning Man, me and Lisa have managed to get pretty much everything we need… except water. San Francisco was cleaned out, shelves empty, kind of weirdly pre-apocalyptic. I will have to...

The bombing on Tuesday of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad was the latest evidence that America has taken a country that was not a terrorist threat and turned it into one … America...

Al Qaeda seems to have learned that in order to evade detection in the West, it must adopt some of the qualities of a “virtual network”: a style of organization used by American right-wing...

Ear, 21, gave birth to her fourth child on Oct. 19 while taking a shower at her parent’s home on the Eden Valley reserve. She also just gave birth to her fifth child 11...

What’s worse than being stuck in an elevator for 20 minutes? Being stuck in an elevator for 20 minutes with only a freshly severed head to keep you company. Hitoshi Nikaidoh, 35, of Dallas,...

All the recent hoopla about some Brit trying to flog a surface-air missile ignores the fact that thanks to the sterling efforts of mostly US-based weapons manufacturers and trickle-down information economics, it’s possible to...