ARIGATO KYOTO
TENSIONS IN LEBANON
SEX SCANDAL IMPLICATES WHITE HOUSE
When I was in Rome last Sunday, I noticed police blocking streets. A demonstration, I thought. I thought wrong. What was actually happening was that cars were being prohibited in sections of the city. Motor bikes were forced off the road. It was all a response to […]
IN THE EMPIRE
“An Australian scientist involved in the US search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has said the CIA censored his reporting so that it suggested the weapons existed.”
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4130247
Peace Breaks Out in Latin America
BBC reports: Venezuela’s Chavez and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe have “decided to turn the page” after weeks of […]
JOURNALISTS TO BE JAILED?
The Washington Post reports today: “Journalists at the New York Times and Time magazine may be jailed if they continue to refuse to answer questions regarding the leak of a covert CIA officer’s identity, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Editor and Publisher has the latest on the Valerie Plame/Judith Miller case. […]
Michael Cook writes:
I’m tempted to resurrect the spirit of Ronald Reagan for yet another chorus of ‘There they go again’ - but I won’t. Nicknamed President Raygun for his sci-fi “Star Wars” weapon proposal, the current incarnation of this same missile defense concept is proving to have less reliability than duct tape and plastic sheeting […]
