Getting out of the political quicksand of Iraq, or at least burying the bloody occupation as an embarrassing daily news item, is mission number one for the Bush campaign. Extricating U.S. troops and political capital from the mess the Bush administration created in...
Serbian Church Takes On a Sausage
Bishop Irinej from the north-eastern Serbian province of Backa has threatened to excommunicate all those who join a festival for making the world's biggest sausage. In the southern province Mileseva, Bishop Filaret threatened to excommunicate anyone marrying or even...
US Sets ‘Terrible Example’ in Afghanistan
US forces in Afghanistan are arbitrarily detaining civilians, using excessive, sometimes lethal force in arresting them, mistreating detainees in ways that may meet international definitions of torture, and administering a system of arrest and detention that is...
Blowback: U.S.- and Israeli-Style
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e040309.html
Religious, Science Groups Urge US to End Nukes
An international group of religious and scientific leaders Monday appealed to the United States and all other nuclear states to pledge never to use nuclear weapons and to reaffirm their commitments to achieving total nuclear disarmament. The appeal, which was signed...
Prosecuting the Cabal
Is Team Bush about to implode? It sure doesn't look that way from the outside. But beneath the calm unruffled exterior of an administration that never admits either error or doubt, there are some palpitating hearts that beat a little faster each time U.S. special...
Haiti: Barbara Lee Doesnt Speak for Me
It wasnt very long ago that Congresswoman Barbara Lee, of my district here in Berkeley, California, stood up and cast a single dissenting vote against authorizing the use of military force in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. She was...
National Endowment for Democracy: Paying to Make Enemies of America I appreciate BOTH Ron Paul AND his take on NED. Thanks. I wonder, though, if the ideology driving some of the redder NED outcomes has been actually so red as Ron Paul seems to suggest. The red...
US-Iran: Ad Hoc Détente to Continue Despite Conservative Sweep
Despite the sweeping victory of staunchly anti-U.S. conservatives in Iran's elections last month, analysts here believe the tentative détente between the two countries that began late last year will continue at least through the November U.S. elections. Since January,...
The Patriot Act vs. The Constitution
An interview conducted by Saul Landau on "Hot Talk" radio Cal Poly Pomona. Check out his other interviews.


