Al Jazeera is reporting that recently released Iranian dissident Ramin Jahanbegloo has ‘confessed’ to his ‘unwitting’ involvement in a US plot to overthrow the Iranian government: “The Iranian government said … [Keep reading >>]
The World Policy Journal, out of The New School in NYC, has an interesting line-up of articles this month, not the least of which is a Bill Berkowitz piece about … [Keep reading >>]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Kevin Horrigan has been reading Lawrence Wright’s book and thinking himself about what must be going on in an uncaptured Bin Laden’s head: “On the other … [Keep reading >>]
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has seen this act before: “That puts the United States between a rock and a hard place. The rock is the Security Council, which is not keen … [Keep reading >>]
In what has to be one of the absurdities of this campaign, Mark Pazniokas of the Hartford Courant reports that the Lamont and Lieberman campaigns are in a tizzy about … [Keep reading >>]
Writing in the Guardian (and with an extraordinary volume of reader comment), George Galloway suggests that the defeat of Israel may, finally, pave the way for a viable resolution to … [Keep reading >>]
Evacuations in Acapulco, flooding in Baja California. Hurricane John in the Eastern Pacific (that means Western U.S. ) is worth watching…
Hurricane John is a dangerous Category 3 hurricane this morning, … [Keep reading >>]
MoveOn.org will be releasing a report this morning to publicize the costs of the Iraq War to California’s 11th District. A group of voters from CA-11 will be meeting at … [Keep reading >>]
The OilDrum posts interesting solutions to CO2 release: Get Outta U Car!
A Convenient Solution
Of course the writer’s examples are in NYC. It’s a little easier to get out of … [Keep reading >>]
Through our moles in the Republican Party we received this letter, moaning, crying, reading the written-on-wall and of course BEGGING for BUCK$.
Dear NRCC supporter,
Republican Congressional candidates are facing a … [Keep reading >>]
Matthew Yglesias over at Talking Points Memo leaves his resonableness behind for the moment.
The Iran debate has really become rather surreal. You have the “Islamofascist” locution jumping from the fever … [Keep reading >>]
The Lebanese have been telling themselves clever jokes to help them cope with death and reconstruction, and Al Jazeera has been jotting down the best lines: “Early one day, a … [Keep reading >>]
