Wal-Mart and China have forged themselves into the ultimate joint venture, their symbiosis influencing the terms of labor and consumption the world over. With sales of more than $245 billion a year, Wal-Mart is...

DEA reporting demonstrates the involvement of Israeli criminal organizations in Ecstasy smuggling. There are indications that some of these smuggling groups include individuals of Russian or Georgian descent, who hold Israeli citizenship. The Israeli...

Israeli Arab figures like Azmi Bishara – a Member of Israel’s Parliament – dismiss those concerns and resent what he calls the demographic “obsession” of the Israeli establishment. “What you have here are people...

So Roger Stone is bankrolling and organising Al Sharpton’s political campaigning. Quite a career change for Watergate alumni Stone, who began his career organising CREEP (the Committe to Re-Elect the President). Doubtless CREEP’s burglaries...

Meiwes, who said in court he had fantasised since puberty about consuming a man to fill the void caused by the sudden departure of his father, had been in touch with hundreds of people...

I have discovered nirvana in a cheese… Saint-Agur. A few days ago, after sniffing maybe a dozen cheeses in Rainbow, the local lesbian wholefoods co-op, I settled on this creamy blue mold cheese. Later...

Following on from the virtual whoring of the imaginary girlfriend auctions on ebay, it’s the Imaginary Semi-Psychotic Stalker Ex-Boyfriend – Includes blog devoted to “relationship.

In 1920, the League of Nations awarded Britain the new mandate of Iraq as part of secret deals made during World War I. Just six months into British rule, Iraqi opposition was growing. After...

Wasn’t outer space the dopey diversion of the well-behaved during the Cold War? Weren’t moon shots the 60s’ and 70s’ bread and circuses for a country worn out by a pointless war abroad and...