At 9 p.m., an electrical transformer blew up, plunging the neighborhood into darkness. American soldiers, apparently fearing a bomb attack, went on alert. Within 45 minutes, six Iraqis trying to get home before the...

I read that the American Jewish Anti-Defamation League has strongly criticized Israel’s recent adoption of a racially based law controlling miscgenation between “Israelis” and “Palestinians”. The EU says it is investigating whether such Apartheid-style...

So Wolfowitz, one of the chief architects of the invasion of Iraq, now says he doesn’t believe Iraq had anything to do with the September 11, 2001 flying bomb attacks on New York and...

It’s exactly 58 years since the only country in history both savage and determined enough — and with the ability to use nuclear weapons aggressively — annihilated a city of several hundred thousand civilians...

A few months ago several reports implicated the Pentagon for using napalm, an assertion they vigorously denied at the time while also insisting all their stocks of napalm had been eliminated years earlier. Now,...

So buried within this rather bloodthirsty article, I noticed an interesting aside. Task Force 20, the Pentagon’s assassination squad in Iraq that’s going around doing the drive-by shootings and random hits on “suspected” buildings...

A police investigation is under way in Edinburgh after the remains of a man were found in a suitcase which was pulled from a river. Lothian and Borders detectives describe the death of the...

I read that the number of eager entrants in the California Recall Election has topped 200, and is still climbing. I tried to convince Lisa to run but she emphatically demurred. I think it...

According to Gnod, there’s a definite connection between Link Wray, the Sneaker Pimps, and “Trance“. Which kind of confirms my suspicions since I’ve been listening to lot of Wray and the Pimps lately. By...

Having em barked on building a really big wall around the Palestinian refugee camps, in effect converting them into captive Bantustans, the Israeli government is now preparing to force Israelis who marry Palestinians to...