When the beautiful Saudi news presenter was brutally beaten by her husband, this case first made news because the real story was that a Saudi male was being taken to task – by the law! – over bad behavior toward a woman. Now, as court cases seem inevitably (here in...
Regarding the dismissal of her suit against the FBI, whistleblower Sibel Edmonds sends this along:They are fighting it relentlessly all right! Now, this can be used to continue the gag on Congress, the quashing of any subpoenas for my deposition, and to prevent my...
The war on Iraq claimed yet another life today, this time in a traffic accident in Balad, Iraq. CentCom reports: One 13th Corps Support Command Soldier was killed and four injured as the result of a vehicle accident near Ramadi at approximately 1 a.m. July...
So the three killed by the Taliban in last Monday's attack on election workers were, as you probably correctly guessed, women, should come as no surprise. What’s distressing beyond the death and mayhem these "concrete blockheads" (as one reader aptly calls...
In yet another demonstration of journalistic malpractice, this announcement from the US Department of Energy is reported by the AP with no analysis or background information:Washington (AP) - In a secret operation, the United States last month removed from Iraq nearly...
For the first time ever, a call to dismantle the Apartheid Wall has been published in Israel's main-stream media, by otherwise very main-stream senior columnist Yoel Esteron of Ha'aretz.
Roderick Long responds to a recent bout of militarism over at Liberty & Power, and his post is worth sharing and expanding upon. Long:Jacob [Levy] describes [Michael] Badnarik's position as a "silly Panglossianism about politics that says, 'Any wrong must be traceable...
And justice for all:A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Tuesday by a whistle-blower who alleged security lapses in the FBI's translator program, ruling that her claims might expose government secrets that could damage national security. U.S. District Judge Reggie B....
In the biggest anticlimax since, oh, John Kerry's last foreign-policy speech, Kerry picks John Edwards for a running mate. I guess he could have done worse. In related non-news, the Murdoch press maintains its high standards of accuracy.
According to wire and newspaper reports, Slobodan Milosevic, the man Empire loves to hate, may be too ill to stand trial - even a show one, staged so ineptly by the Hague Inquisition over the past two years. His defense, scheduled to begin Monday, was postponed till...
