I’m paying the price for being prolific with a major case of writer’s cramp – which, in the computer age, takes on a whole new and (quite painful) meaning. The other night I felt a twinge in my right forearm, and, by morning, it had turned into a constant aching. My fingers are now curled …
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With threats of a Venezuelan oil blockade helping to push petroleum prices higher, neo-conservative politicians and analysts continue to insist the biggest threat to U.S. energy supplies is Washington’s reliance on Middle East oil. President Hugo Chavez on Sunday vowed to halt oil exports to the United States and launch a “100-year war” if Washington …
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Haiti: Barbara Lee Doesn’t Speak for Me Barbara Lee does speak for me, and I live in Wisconsin! When Lee is asking Bush to “intervene” in Haiti, it isn’t really an intervention she is calling for so much as a cessation of intervention. The US military shipped arms to the ‘rebels’ in the Dominican Republic …
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“I prayed to God that the wound was not a mortal one, so I could see my children grow up,” said Carlos Montenegro, a photojournalist who was shot in the leg by a political police agent he was filming during the recent disturbances in Venezuela. Reporters in this South American country are licking their latest …
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads India’s ruling coalition, has launched a new stratagem in its high-pitched election campaign to rake up its trademark issue of religious and ethnic identities. Starting Mar. 10, Lal Krishna Advani, the part’s best-known hawkish leader and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s deputy, will begin a month-long tour covering …
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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 Iraq may be mission impossible. But the president’s political and ideological handlers …
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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 attending a wedding these days. The bishops said festivities like these should not be held during …
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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 outside the rule of law, according to a blistering new report released Monday by Human Rights Watch (HRW). …
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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 by the head of the U.S. National Council of Churches (NCC) and the president …
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