Shadow Of The Torturer
So King Bush has appointed the Torturer’s Friend John Negroponte as Ambassador to Iraq. While he was Ambassador in Honduras during the 1980s he shielded the Honduran military from fallout concerning their use of...
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Business Plan
[private] security costs could claim up to 25 percent of the $18 billion budgeted for reconstruction … that could delay or force the cancellation of billions of dollars worth of projects to rebuild schools,...
Dereliction of Duty
Why mess with the Boston Globe’s original headline? Following an important meeting on Iraq war planning in late 2001, President Bush told the public that the discussions were about Afghanistan. He made no mention...
Brits Staying On Sufferance
During an interview in Basra last week Brig Carter acknowledged that the Coalition’s presence in southern Iraq was entirely dependent on the goodwill of the local Shia Muslim leader, Sayid Ali al-Safi al-Musawi. He...
Enjoyed His Own Product Just A Little Too Much?
McDonald’s Corp Chairman and Chief Executive Jim Cantalupo died of an apparent heart attack on Monday in Florida … Cantalupo, 60, died while attending a franchisee convention in Orlando … He also recognized the...
Get ‘Em While They’re Soft
Cicadas are a low-carb, low-fat rare treat apparently best served sauteed in butter and parsley. Some, however, prefer to go more upscale: The soft-shelled cicada, it’s done just like a soft-shelled crab,” says executive...
Meat Is Murder
In Japan every cow is tested for BSE before being chopped up for human consumption. Compare this to the US approach, where a cow probably has a greater chance of being struck by lightning...
You Shoot Like A Goat Herder
In Fallujah’s darkened, empty streets, U.S. troops blast AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells” and other rock music full volume from a huge speaker, hoping to grate on the nerves of this Sunni Muslim city’s gunmen and...
Now We’re Safer?
Some Iraqi nuclear facilities appear to be unguarded, and radioactive materials are being taken out of the country, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency reported after reviewing satellite images and equipment that has turned up...