Job Perks
US Marines forcibly detained a team of security guards working for an American engineering firm in Iraq after reportedly witnessing the contractors fire at U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians from an armed convoy. The...
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Casus Belli
John R. Bolton flew to Europe in 2002 to confront the head of a global arms-control agency and demand he resign, then orchestrated the firing of the unwilling diplomat in a move a U.N....
Cuckoo Land
What with all the play that the narrow French rejection of the proposed EU Constitution enjoyed, I doubt that Switzerland’s successful referendum accepting endorsement of closer EU integration (specifically, enacting the Dublin Convention on...
We Only Want The Earth
Today is the birthdate of Jim Connolly, a Scots Irish labour hero shot dead in 1916 during a failed rebellion against British rule. I recently visited Kilmainham Gaol, and the very spot where Connolly...
Athropocene
At the end of the last glaciation, the ice sheets that covered much of the Northern Hemisphere disappeared in a matter of a few thousand yearsa surprisingly short time, considering how long it had...
Bunker Busted
The U.S. has refused to reaffirm the 13 steps toward nuclear disarmament it agreed to in 2000, or allow discussion of Israel’s nuclear status … Critics pointed out that during the monthlong conference, the...
Democratic Deficit
I read that the French voting public are unexpectedly close to a “Non!” on the proposed EU Constitution… There’s generally a democratic deficit in the enlargement of an empire. Expansion of a political territory...
Hoodies, Baseball Caps and Ganja, Oh My
Fresh from his accountability moment, Tony Blair is tackling some of the thorniest issues facing British society: criminalising “hoodies” and baseball caps while keeping marijuana decriminalised (despite a “get tough” pre-election stance). In the...
Oh The Inhumanity!
So what do you do when you’ve paid surgeons to cut into your flesh and insert abiotic augmentations of dubious merit, and now you find that your unnaturally proportioned body is now unsuitable for...