Last week, the Hamas militia engaged in a prolonged clash in the crowded center of [Gaza] with police loyal to Abbas, killing one bystander and sending students, shoppers and office workers fleeing. A few...

O’Reilly Media, the open-source, creative commons darling company, has threatened to sue a small Irish company into smithereens for daring to use the words “Web 2.0” without permission. “CMP has a pending application for...

A military investigation into the deaths of two dozen Iraqis last November is expected to find that a small number of marines in western Iraq carried out extensive, unprovoked killings of civilians … Officials...

Rainbow was an old UK TV show that ran for ever. It featured some puppets, Zippy was the foil, Bungle was the Godless Killing Machine furry bear apparently married to Jeffrey, the human authority...

I read in passing a typical urban myth concerning LSD, something to do with “rival LSD gangs” dosing each other. they give them waaay too much liquid LSD, enough to permanently remove them from...

Roughly 10 percent of Mexico’s population of about 107 million is now living in the United States, estimates show. About 15 percent of Mexico’s labor force is working in the United States. One in...

Reflecting this, [AIPAC’s] board is thick with corporate lawyers, Wall Street investors, business executives, and heirs to family fortunes. Within the board itself, power is concentrated in an extremely rich subgroup, known as the...

I have a suspicion that in a few hundred years the idea and creation of Israel (as a homeland for expatriated people of many different ethnicites sharing a common class of religious behaviours categorized...

“Be gone by evening prayers or we will kill you,” warned one of four men who called at the house of Leila Mohammed, a pregnant mother of three children in the city of Baquba,...