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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...

Farah Fadhil was only 18 when she was killed. An American soldier threw a grenade through the window of her apartment. Her death, early last Monday, was slow and agonising. Her legs had been...

Avraham Burg used to be a Speaker in the Israeli parliament. Now he seems quite pessimistic… The Jewish people did not survive for two millennia in order to pioneer new weaponry, computer security programs...

President Bush approved the overall war strategy for Iraq in August last year. That was eight months before the first bomb was dropped and six months before he asked the U.N. Security Council for...

Seven in 10 Americans continue to believe that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had a role in the attacks, even though the Bush administration and congressional investigators say they have no evidence of this … That...

Within the deteriorating maelstrom of the chaotic Iraq, I think it’s no surprise that various ethnic and religious militias are increasing their strength, especially given the overwhelmed US forces’ general retreat into the former...

I read this article, about the “weight” of clouds, and aside from the interesting revelation of a new measurement of weight (units of “elephant”, preferable to 747s, apparently), I was disappointed to find nobody...

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