Thatcher: Down On Iraq
I was a scientist before I was a politician … And as a scientist I know you need facts, evidence and proof — and then you check, recheck and check again. The fact was...
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Blame Canada!
George W. Bush may have no military exit strategy for Iraq, but the necons who convinced him to go to war there have developed one of their owna political one: Blame the Administration. Their...
Frosty Welcome
Al-Jazeera, which is launching an English-language network with Washington as a major hub, has landed its first big-name Western journalist: David Frost. And the veteran BBC interviewer says he’s perfectly comfortable with the unlikely...
On A Mission From God
“President Bush said to all of us: ‘I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, “George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.” And I did, and then God would tell...
Oral Suction Blood Libel
A decision made earlier this month by the city of New York to allow a Jewish religious court to rule on the public safety of a circumcision practice called metzizah b’peh (oral suction) has...
Great Game Reshuffle
After cutting off U.S. access to a key military base, Uzbekistan has also quietly terminated cooperation with Washington on counterterrorism … The government of President Islam Karimov, one of the most authoritarian to emerge...
Oh Please Make It Stop
[Flatley] has compared Irish step dancing to “having four or five orgasms and seeing how many you can go.” … With his pants casually unbuttoned, Flatley gives off a kind of tortured, middle-aged sexuality,...
Hysteria Management
Fox News, a day before the major evacuation of the Superdome began, issued an “alert” as talk show host Alan Colmes reiterated reports of “robberies, rapes, carjackings, riots and murder. Violent gangs are roaming...
Crack Shots
US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan – an estimated 250,000 for every insurgent killed – that American ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand. As a result the US is...