With MGM eagerly promoting the newest James Bond film Quantum of Solace, the 22nd such film from Eon Productions, Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko should be enjoying the spotlight as the latest Bond girl. She plays a Russian-Bolivian agent in the movie, in which Bond...
The Free Gaza Movement's chartered boat "Dignity" arrived earlier today in the Gaza Strip, loaded down with humanitarian aid supplies for the blockaded populace, but there's one thing they probably didn't think to pack, and is going to be increasingly hard to come by...
A group of South Korean military officers is pressing a court to overturn the military’s ban, announced earlier this year, on books which it considers dangerously pro-North Korean, anti-US, or anti-capitalist. The military says the “seditious†books would hinder...
Iranian-born British Army interpreter Daniel James, who is accused of spying for Iran, has too interesting of a backstory not to mention. With a background in body building and kick boxing, James says he eventually rose to the title of "Danny James, King of Salsa."...
It appears that the US raid in Mosul we reported earlier this month which killed 11, including several women and children, was in fact the same raid that killed Abu Qaswarah, the much ballyhooed al-Qaeda in Iraq second in command. Qaswarah has an interesting...
I know this doesn't really have to do with much of anything we cover, its just way too funny not to mention. Several local Fox affiliates are running a short (slightly over 1 minute long) news broadcast about Fisher Price's Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo...
The Independent's Robert Fisk has a great article tonight about the summary executions being carried out in Saddam's old intelligence HQ, now a "high-security detention facility." Of particular note is that the government's "security officials" are so inept that they...
The Independent has a really fascinating talk with Tina Kandelaki, a well known television personality in Russia who is originally from Georgia, and several other Georgians living in Moscow. As President Saakashvili called Georgians who live in Russia "traitors," its...
I'm not sure how many of you read the article I wrote this morning about the Pentagon's "troop cut freeze" in Iraq. I'm not just mentioning it here because I'm hoping to get my readership up (though if that's a side effect, I sure won't complain), rather I write this...
It was brought to my attention this morning that some people have recently been using last month's Iraqi government sale of Yellowcake uranium to a Canadian company as vindication for starting everyone's favorite Middle East quagmire that's totally going less awful...
