ARCHIVE February 27, 2005 to the present
February 26, 2006
Click. (Courier Journal) Senator Frist says he's OK with ports deal.
Click. (Sidney Morning Herald) A maritime company from Dubai will be operating in Australia's - and the world's - ports. Jane Martinson meets the boss.
Click. Juan Cole: More shrines destroyed, 60 killed. Sistani forms militia.
Click. (Independent) Iraqis tortured by government death squads.
Click. (Independent) Iran agrees to basic nuclear deal with Russia.
Click. (The Australian) Abbas "to be Hamas fig leaf".
Click. James Madden: "Jihad" Jack guilty on terror charge.
Click. (London Times) Princess Diana driver was secret informer.
Click. (London Times) 7/7 cover-up exposed.
Click. (Observer) Investigation reveals new evidence that pilots, cabin crew and passengers are being exposed to a potentially toxic gas in aircraft.
Click. Douglas Feiden: Saving the fish, not the troops.
Click. Joe Cannon: Desperation row.
Click. Michael Goodwin: Does anyone in Washington have a clue?
Click. Rachel Abramowitz, Robert Welkos: Anthony Pellicano and his tangled web. The indicted private detective has cast a long shadow on Hollywood, where hardball is an art.
Click. Brenda Stardom: The Olympics Sucked For the Most Part.
Click. (New York Daily News) The cutters who made a killing. Meet the regular guys working for ghouls.
Click. Japanese scientists produce Tamiflu via chemical synthesis.
Click. Jake Armstrong: Genetically modified. Advancements in biotechnology could play a key role in how Lodi's grape harvest is grown.
Click. (The Australian) Australian scientists have overcome a hurdle in the evolution of embryonic stem cell technology by devising a means of weeding out cells that are potentially cancerous.
February 24, 2006
Click. (The Australian) Gates of hell are open.
Click. (New Zealand Herald) A look at the armed factions in Iraq.
Click. Juan Cole: Suicide bombing of Saudi Oil complex foiled. We all just dodged a bullet. But for how long?
Click. (Financial Times) Oil prices jump as terrorists strike at Saudi refinery.
Click. Guy Dinmore: US marines probe tensions among Iran’s minorities.
Click. (Strategypage.com) Signs that the US is about to bomb Iran.
Click. (Bloomberg) Filipinos march in Manila, defy Arroyo's state of emergency, protest ban.
Click. A. Lin Neumann: Philippines tears itself apart.
Click. Herbert Docena: Philippines. When Uncle Sam comes marching in.
Click. (Deutsch Welle) Germany admits spies gave intelligence to US in Iraq war.
Click. (Spiegel) Merkel's first 100 days -- Foreign flair, domestic denial.
Click. (Aljazeera) Yemen has rejected US demand to arrest scholar Shaikh Abd al-Majid al-Zindani, whom Washington accuses of financing terrorism.
Click. (Sydney Morning Herald) Live here, be Australian.
Click. (E & P) Embed who ran afoul of military in Iraq reflects on his experience.
Click. (London Times) Blair to create minister for social exclusion.
Click. (MSNBC) Chavez curbs flights by US airlines.
Click. (Bloomberg) South Dakota lawmakers vote to ban abortion, setting up Roe v. Wade test.
Click. James Ridgeway: South Dakota's genius scheme to outlaw abortion.
Click. (San Diego Tribune) A psychiatrist says Randy “Duke” Cunningham's fall from Vietnam War hero to corrupt politician grew out of “an outsized ego and a mantle of invulnerability” that allowed him to rationalize his behavior.
Click. (Bloomberg) Contractor pleads guilty to bribing Rep. Cunningham.
Click. Paul Joseph Watson: Google imposes worldwide ban on China critical website.
Click. Shane Harris: Total Information Awareness (TIA) lives on.
Click. (Spiegel) After years of anonymity, the names of hundreds of terrorist suspects being held at Guantamo are soon to be released. More details
Click. Layla Bohm: Hayat, informant talks weighed. Discussions reveal jihad interest by Lodian, but don't prove attendance to terror camp.
Click. Murray Waas: Did the White House authorize leaks to Woodward?
Click. Joe Cannon: Woodward.
Click. (Dallas Morning News) Tighter Medicaid rules `wake-up call' to seniors. Congress just made it harder to get help with nursing home bills.
Click. John W. Dean: Why should anyone worry about whose communications Bush and Cheney are intercepting, if it helps to find terrorists?
Click. (Christian Science Monitor) New Orleans port back in business.
Click. (Bloomberg) Research In Motion Ltd. shares rise as judge delays BlackBerry shutdown order.
Click. (Bloomberg) Bush says Iraqis face "moment of choosing" as sectarian violence spreads.
Click. (UPI) United Arab Emirates terminal takeover extends to 21 ports.
Click. Thalif Deen: Why Bush is stuck on the port deal.
Click. Paul Krugman: Osama, Saddam and the ports.
Click. Arianna Huffington: Civil war in Iraq. Murtha told us so.
Click. Helen Kennedy: Hillary may have the White (House) stuff.
The 23rd Qualm (Written by a retired Methodist minister.)
Bush is my shepherd; I dwell in want.
He maketh logs to be cut down in national forests.
He leadeth trucks into the still wilderness.
He restoreth my fears.
He leadeth me in the paths of international disgrace for his ego's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of pollution and war,
I will find no exit, for thou art in office.
Thy tax cuts for the rich and thy media control, they discomfort me.
Thou preparest an agenda of deception in the presence of thy religion.
Thou anointest my head with foreign oil.
My health insurance runneth out.
Surely megalomania and false patriotism shall follow me all the days of thy term,
And my jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever and ever.
Amen.
Click. Peter Hecht: Susan Kennedy has governor's ear, critics' scorn.
Click. Kate Folmar: GOP appears united for convention.
Click. (AP) Governor Schwarzenegger tours Sacramento levees.
Click. Andy Furillo: Bond plan's focus ripped. Angelides and environmental groups complain too little would go to public transit.
Click. Kevin Yamamura: Camejo joins governor's race. The veteran Green Party candidate says this will be his last long-shot bid.
Click. Steve Geissinger: State facing sobering federal cuts. Report: Loss of funds will offset increased tax revenue.
Click. Katy Hillenmeyer: Feds may drastically cut salmon season.
Click. (Santa Rosa Press Demo) Habematolel Pomos said the tribe is
willing to negotiate a legally binding contract to limit the size of a proposed casino near Upper Lake.
Click. Janine DeFao: Reiner stumps for preschool initiative. Prop. 82 would tax wealthy to finance statewide program.
Click. (AP) Rob Reiner denies impropriety in preschool.
Click. Sonya Sorich: Chinese adoptions. Local adoptive families set their eyes on future travel.
Click. (San Bernardino Sun) Judge takes scandal figure off the hook.
Click. Llana DeBare: Girls learn that they can be engineers, too. Program designed to offer inside look at the profession.
Click. Brenda Stardom: The Visa Account I Don't Have Has Been Hacked.
Click. Matt Brady: How digital animation conquered Hollywood.
Click. Catherine Field: Russians battle for Tsar's basilica.
Click. (London Times) Don't enter witness box, Queen advises Charles.
Click. (BBC) Forensic experts claim to have proved a bust and a death mask are the exact likeness of William Shakespeare.
Substances to be probed for potential in slowing Parkinson's +
Report says chromium's lung-cancer risk concealed +
Brilliant's Wish: Disease Alerts +
Doc defends pain supplements, slams study +
Solving problem children +
Engineered Mouse Mimics Cognitive Aspects Of Schizophrenia +
Crohn's disease lined to weakened immunity +
Cancer vaccine may be possibility +
Cruise ship illnesses are studied +
Re-used needles not cause of African HIV +
New behavioral therapy might cut drug use +
New Evidence That Natural Selection Is A General Driving Force Behind The Origin
Of Species +
Infection 'Alarm' Yields Clues To Immune System Behavior +
Calcium Plus Vitamin-D Supplementation Does An Older Body Good +
World-first Forensic Technique Heralds New Horizon For Mass Fatality Radiology
+
Newly Identified Mechanism Helps Explain Why People Of African Descent Are More
Vulnerable To TB +
Ginkgo Biloba Extract: More Than Just For Memory? +
One In Four Men With Same British Surname Are Linked Genetically +
Loud Music Worsens Effects Of Taking Ecstasy +
Living Taste Cells Produced Outside The Body +
Detection Of DNA On Nanotubes Offers New Sensing, Sequencing Technologies +
A Better Tool To Study Role Of Iron In Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
+
Benefits Of Eating Seafood Outweigh Risks +
Genetic And Environmental Influences On Alcohol Consumption Among Rhesus Monkeys
+
Study Shows Relationship Between Oral And Cardiovascular Health +
Approach To School Affects How Girls Compare With Boys In Math +
Efficacy Of Glucosamine, Chondroitin Sulfate May Depend On Level Of
Osteoarthritis Pain +
Autistic ability
'underestimated' +
'Pharmed' goat
drug not approved
West Nile could get worse, turn into epidemic +
Bird Flu Spreads on European Farms +
Needed: new scientific norms for emergency times +
Between the lines of the WHO India update +
Harvard poll on bird flu +
French farm turkeys died of bird flu +
U.K., Ireland Order Experimental Bird Flu Vaccine for Health-Care Workers +
Microbes Convert Styrofoam Into Biodegradable Plastic +
France holds
human bird flu drill
Why Is Mt. Kilimanjaro Melting? +
The Cold Warat the Arctic Circle +
Mutant Algae Is Hydrogen Factory +
Work More, Do Less With Tech +
Why high-tech means low esteem +
Fighting Sound With Sound, New Modeling Technique Could Quiet Aircraft +
New Map Of Milky Way Reveals Millions Of Unseen Objects +
Three New Species Of Lemurs Identified +
Changes In Reef Latitude: Is Pollution Causing Regional Coral Extinctions? +
Go-ahead for Europe ice mission
Nanoscience Study Shows That Quantum Dots 'Talk' +
Mixed Conductor Ceria Proven As Excellent Catalyst For Fuel Cell Anodes +
How Long Can Apple's Billion-Download Baby Hold the Lead? +
Google's Web Page Creator Crashes On Takeoff
February 23, 2006
Click. (Khaleej) Over 120 shot dead in Iraq sectarian bloodshed.
Click. (AP) Iraqi sectarian violence flares: Minister says insurgents seeking civil war.
Click. (Bloomberg) Philippine Army says it foiled plan by troops to join anti-Arroyo rallies.
Click. (BBC) French President Jacques Chirac has attended a memorial for a young French Jew whose killing shocked the nation.
Click. (Bloomberg) Sri Lanka's government, rebels pledge to boost cease-fire, prevent violence.
Click. Kevin G. Hall: Survival of Mexico's long-dominant PRI in question.
Click. Jim Yardley: Man freed after years in jail for Mao insult.
Click. (DEBKAfile) Russian missile cruiser Moskva on a NATO exercise, docked at Syrian Latakia port on Feb. 21.
Click. (Reuters) German police raid suspected weapons spy ring.
Click. (Khaleej) Rice shunts Lahoud, pressures Syria on Lebanon visit.
Click. (Khaleej) Guantanamo must close, says US ally Berlusconi.
Click. (Canadian Press) More than six dozen CIA-linked landings in Canada: declassified memos.
Click. (Xinhua) World Bank opens marketplace for development ideas by Chinese NGOs.
Click. (Bloomberg) Canadian defense minister O'Conner may discuss US missile plan.
Click. (Bloomberg) Peru's Humala vows to end gas exports, trade treaties if elected President.
Click. (ABC) Average American family income declines.
Click. (BBC) Could a South Dakota law really end US abortion rights.
Click. Senator Hilary Clinton turns to veteran fundraisers.
Click. (Hearst news) People who tumble over mail left in their doorways can sue the US Postal Service, the Supreme Court ruled.
Click. James Sterngold: Urban housing success story faces budget ax.
Click. Tim Funk: Supreme Court hears case on admissibility of evidence of third party culpability for crime.
Click. Michael J. Sniffen: Defense: jury stacked against Moussaoui.
Click. Andrew Gumbel: A cover-up under two Presidents. The unsolved mystery of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Click. (Lodi News) Hamid Hayat: Did he confess to agents?
Click. Rhone Tempest: FBI informer begins his testimony in Lodi terror trial.
Click. Metea Gold, Meg James: In the wake of a CBS and Warner Bros. deal, Murdoch's company is banking on telenovelas.
Click. (AP) Watchdog group questions 2004 Florida vote.
Click. (BBC) Four charged over US bones theft.
Click. (Bloomberg) Fannie Mae's former chief financial officer caused $11 billion of accounting errors and misled the board.
Click. (Bloomberg) The FBI warned military intelligence agents that they were using illegal techniques to question suspected terrorists at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay.
Click. (Khaleej) Rice to soothe fears over ports row on UAE visit.
Click.
Click. (Khaleej) Editorial: View from Dubai.
Click. (Bloomberg) Senators urge Dubai port deal be postpones: Rove suggest delay possible.
Click. Ted Bridis: Senator Carl Levin challenges port procedure.
Click. Ron Hutcheson: Bush sees bright side in outsourcing.
Click. (AP) Difficult to discern who runs US ports.
Click. Daniel Enberg: I'm running a port. What do I do? How a port operator operates.
Click. Anacher Forester: Baker key to Dubai ports mess.
Click. Fred Kaplan: You're a spy. If the Bush administration's interpretation of espionage law
is upheld, then everyone
Click. Paul Waldman: The GOP's loyalty fetish.
Click. Robert Parry: UAE, Port Security & the Hariri Hit.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Secret Service alerted by Jack Thompson over Cheney/Bush games.
Click. Tracy Hamilton: Journalist Bob Woodward warns of police State.
Click. Bruce Schneier: US ports raise proxy problem.
Click. (AP) UAE gave $100 million for Katrina relief.
Click. (AP) White House Katrina report highlights.
Click. (AP) Comparison of reports on Katrina.
is breaking the law, all the time.
intoxicated to remember making statements attributed to her
by a CHP officer who arrested her on
suspicion of drunken driving last year.
Click. (Oakland Tribune) Delta's levees remain a top-flight concern. Feinstein
to back governor's public works
proposal in D.C.; legislative leaders want more modest plan.
Click. Jason B. Johnson: State's levees in danger. More engineering armor urged for California delta.
Click. Carla Marinucchi: Big test for governor at GOP convention. He is recovering from fall defeat, but faces a tough crowd.
Click. Paul Chorneau: Money rolling in worries state budget analyst.
Click. Rachel Gordon: Mayors look for housing money. San Francisco, San Jose and LA top officials visit the Capitol.
Click. Nancy Isles Nation: Marin Foundation in tug of war over donation.
Click. (Mountain Democrat) Adopted orphans find a new home in El Dorado.
Click. John M. Gilonna: Bay Area lawmaking. The weird and the wonderful.
Click. Anthony York: Team Schwarzenegger gets overhaul with a White House feel.
Click. Emily Fancher: Oldest salvaged ship resurrected in San Francisco.
Click. (Chicago Tribune) At DePaul, queer studies finds a niche.
Click. (London Times) Archeological recovery of the Battle of Chester in AD 616.
Click. Maev Kennedy. Archangel sculpture rises from Lichfield nave.
Click. Adam Gopnik: Bohemian yet bourgeois, Paris is a city of contradictions. No wonder American artists have
always been dazzled by it.
Click. John Hooper: Villagers claim church fresco is lost Michelangelo.
Click. Maddy Costa: "Shakespeare was daring - why aren't new writers?".
Click. (Xinhua) Chinese college students "compelled" to find love.
Click. Juliane Ngan: Feast of Fools features "Pagan Idol" competition.
Study says supplements Chondroitin, Glucosamine don't ease arthritis pain +
Robot surgeons match
heartbeats +
Jakarta May Complete Search of Houses for Diseased Fowl in Three Months +
Fast biosensor is developed +
By the three
moons of Pluto! +
Fossil Overturns Ideas of Jurassic Mammals +
Ultraviolet satellite operational again +
Google, EarthLink Bid to Offer Wireless Access in San Francisco +
Live
Thumbnails: Watch 'em Grow +
Pharmed goats seek
drug license +
Soldiers' hearing loss quietly taking big toll +
Mutant Algae Is Hydrogen Factory +
A Solid That's Light as Air +
Crohn's
disease 'enigma' close to solved? +
Caregiving: Pataki's complicated recovery +
Ped Med: Tracing ADHD's history +
Mobile animal diagnostic lab is developed +
Scientists grow prostate from stem cells +
Ancient Origin Of Vertebrate Skeleton In Unlovable Lamprey +
Genes Involved In Cell Growth And Cell Division Identified +
Chromosome Rearrangements Not As Random As Believed +
Genetic Test Accurate For Salt-related High Blood Pressure +
Tool Helps Doctors Tailor Infertility Treatments For Couples +
Learning And Memory Stimulated By Gut Hormone +
Use Of Statins Shows Improvement In Erectile Performance Of Some Men Who
Previously Did Not Respond Well To Viagra + |
New Study Shows Antibody-interleukin Complexes Stimulate Immune Responses +
1st Diagnostic Indicator For Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) +
Mobile Lab Expands Capacity Of Animal Disease Diagnostics +
Obesity May Affect Response To Asthma Medications +
Obesity May Affect Response To Asthma Medications +
Proteins Are Key To Cell Death In Heart Disease, Stroke And Degenerative
Conditions +
Is Salmon Good or Bad for Pregnant Women? +
Fresh theory
on cause of Crohn's +
'Biggest
measles campaign' ready
Snakes Poisoned At Birth +
Shopping List Gets Longer -- Not Less Choosy -- In Some Of World's Largest
Fisheries +
Hens' Teeth Not So Rare After All +
France Tests Turkeys for Bird Flu; India Reports No Human Cases in Workers +
Using eight tons of
sand in the fight against bird flu +
Jakarta May Complete Search of Houses for Diseased Poultry in Three Months +
Luck of
the Irish +
Dumb and dumber in the Middle East +
France Tests Turkeys for Bird Flu; India Reports No Human Cases in Workers
Man-made
'star' is created+
Researchers Describe Discovery Of Pluto's New Moons +
Europe ice mission decision due
Google Enters Web Design Business + |
Quantum Computer Solves Problem, Without Running +
Hackers Beware - New Technique Uses Photons, Physics To Foil Codebreakers +
Godfather classic film seeks to become video game hit +
Google Sets
February 22, 2006
Click. (London Times) Al-Askariya shrine -- "Not just a major cathedral".
Click. (Zaman) Al-Sadr calls for revenge amid mosque attack.
Click. (ABC) Iraq bomb attack. Why is civil war possible?
Click. (RIAN) Moscow has no new offers for Iran at nuclear talks.
Click. (Sydney Morning Herald) Files reveal al Qaeda's worries over marketing.
Click. (Int'l Herald Tribune) Egyptians rebuff US bid to slash Hamas aid.
Click. Warren P. Strobel: Egypt cautions against isolating Hamas.
Click. Don Lee: Shanghai celebrates giant port amid worries of overcapacity.
Click. Matthew Lynn: Nazis, slavers return as corporate albatrosses.
Click. (Bloomberg) Ecuador sends troops to oil producing area after protesters cut pipeline.
Click. Denny Walsh: FBI agents suggested answers to some questions during a protracted videotaped interview in which a Lodi man charged with providing material support to terrorists confessed to undergoing jihad training at a camp in Pakistan.
Click. Mark Sherman: New FBI computer system exceeds costs.
Click. (Christian Science) Faculty clout helps oust Harvard's President Summers.
Click. (Time) How the US nabbed alleged terrorists in Toledo.
Click. (Houston Chronicle) Oregon property rights law upheld.
Click. Bob Nichols: Heads roll at the Veterans Administration.
Click. (CNN) Bush: India should divide nuke programs.
Click. (Bloomberg) Bush, Snow didn't learn of Dubai port deal until after US approval given.
Click. Ted Burdis: Bush unaware of ports deal before approval.
Click. (Daily Kos) UAE royal family met with Bin Laden, saved him from CIA hit.
Click. Bill Berkowitz: Where is Neil Bush? Dubai?
Click. James Ridgeway: Dubai's point of no return.
Click. Doug Thompson: Secret Service agents say Cheney was drunk when he shot lawyer.
Click. (Reuters) White House blocked briefing on NSA spying.
Click. Arianna Huffington: Is Sean Hannity addicted to Coulter crack?
Click. Paul Craig Roberts: Would someone please interfere in our elections?
Click. (Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control) Risk Report. United Arab Emirates Transshipment Milestones.
Click. Maureen Dowd: G.O.P. to W.: You're Nuts!
Click. (USA Today) Bin Laden's operatives still using freewheeling Dubai.
Click. Scooter Libby's web page.
Click. (Bakersfieldonline) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger highlighted the Strategic Growth Plan's $35 billion investment to maintain and improve the state's levee and flood control system.
Click. Dan Walters: Financing bonds could be sticking point on infrastructure accord.
Click. Sabin Russell: California postpones Morales execution. Doctors' ethical dilemma: "This is a job for an executioner, not a physician".
Click. Kerri Brenner: DA probes activities at office of Marin assessor.
Click. (Vallejo Times Herald) The state Attorney General has sued Napa County to halt
the dumping of untreated sewage into
Lake Berryessa.
Click. (LA Times) Orange County Judge John M. Watson rebuked for doing business from the bench.
Click. (Bloomberg) California's sentencing guidelines draw US Supreme Court scrutiny.
Click. Samuel A. Schreiner: Clearing Mary Lincoln's name.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Making Money Off Fatima and the Spiritually Confused.
Click. Carl T. Hall: Gay pride, Turin's other claim to fame.
Click. P. J. Corkery: A cab, a library, a couple of bars (in San Francisco).
Click. Yoolim Lee: The Emperor's old clothes. Collecting Chinese silk robes.
Click. (BBC) Oliver Stone explains September 11 movie.
Click. (Bloomberg) Deloitte to sponsor Leonardo exhibition, draw on "Da Vinci Code" appeal.
Click. (The Guardian) Councils fund "panic rooms" for domestic violence victims.
Click. (London Times) Retirement cruises put marriages on the rocks.
Computer
lets parents track kids' eating +
LA -
based Sunkist to begin selling bags of sliced fruit +
Panel backs infant rotavirus vaccine +
Twelve
humans positive for bird flu in India? +
Bird
flu vaccine no 'silver bullet' +
Good results seen in Ebola vaccine study +
Frog clue to
mosquito repellent +
Physicists Step Closer To Understanding Origin Of The Universe +
Oceans Are 70-Percent Shark Free +
Google hires Dr. Larry Brilliant to head $1 billion charitable foundation +
Google loses fight over photo links
+
Shuttle next-gen SFF PC exposed
+
15-year women's health study comes to an end. Now what? +
Napa doctors become sleuths to find the elusive sources of aches and pains +
Medicare endorses 3 obesity surgeries +
MS diagnosis may be too late to help veteran of first Gulf War +
A New Heart for Baby Nick +
Oklahoma has flu (but not bird flu) +
DNA
could predict your surname
+
Malnutrition
test must be norm +
Ped Med: The female factor in ADHD +
Scientists identify embryonic cell gene +
Something Fishy About Human Brain Evolution +
Science Class Experiment Reveals Vitamin B12 Secret +
Male Gene May Explain Higher Incidence Of Parkinson's In Men +
Link Is Found Between Morphine Addiction And The Tendency To Explore +
New Nano-canary In The Nanotoxicology Coalmine: The Body Itself +
Northwestern Researchers Launch Avastin Trial For Pancreatic Tumors +
Food Experts Say Public Has Inadequate Understanding Of Food Risk Issues +
Researchers Find Molecule That May Hold Key To Learning And Memory +
UVa Scientists Hot On Trail Of Therapies For Deadly Lung Failure +
Evidence Lacking For 'Inflatable-pants' Heart Failure Therapy +
Stressed-out Women More Likely To Miscarry Early +
Second Low-oxygen Pathway Hints At Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease Physiology
Studied: Outbreaks that fail and epidemics +
India seals off town of 30,000 over bird flu fears
+
Germany's Baltic Sea Island Ruegen Remains Country's Bird Flu `Hot Spot' +
Austria Detects H5N1 Bird Flu in Chickens, Ducks; Virus Spreads in Nigeria
Researcher Outlines Coral's Future In An Increasingly Acidic Ocean +
Monitoring Baleen Whales With Autonomous Underwater Vehicles +
New Theory Resolves Mystery Of Anomalous Cosmic Rays +
Researchers Develop Alternate Method To Dispose Nuclear Liquid Waste +
Unearthing Explanations For New Madrid Earthquakes +
Horseshoe Crab Decline Threatens Shorebird Species +
Rare Gamma-ray Flare From A Distant Star Disturbs Earth's Daytime Ionosphere
+
The Dawn Of Deep Ocean Mining
Early Americans Faced Rapid Late Pleistocene Climate Change And Chaotic
Environments
'Millions
suffer RSI' from text messaging
+
EU
Commission eyes MIT-style research powerhouse +
More
security problems bite Apple +
Microsoft
rivals in new EU action +
How
hi-tech vandals are recruiting and controlling PCs +
Japan sends infrared satellite into orbit
February 21, 2006 Tuesday
Click. (The Guardian) New wars for old.
Click. Syed Saleem Shahzad: Musharraf losing his grip.
Click. (Ottawa Citizen) The Afghanistan tinder box.
Click. (Army Times) Army testing unmanned Stryker convoys.
Click. (London Times) US military planes criss-cross Europe using bogus call sign
Click. Robert Burbach: Bolivia's Morales deftly keeps enemies at bay while pushing reforms.
Click. Al Giordano: Subcomandante Marcos Invites the Braceros to Go with Him to Meet Mexicans that Live and Work In the United States.
Click. Teresa Gutierrez: Pentagon quietly builds up South American bases.
Click. (Mainichi) Asahara's lawyers release psychiatric evaluation saying he is fit to stand trial.
Click. George Monbiot: When it won't need a tyranny to deprive us of our freedom.
Click. Nikolai Patrushev: Foreign intelligence services becoming more daring in hunt for Russian military secrets".
Click. (Herald Tribune) Hamas offers cabinet jobs but finds few takers.
Click. (AP) A chilling visit with Pol Pot's "brother".
Click. Brenda Stardom: Portugal and Italy Aid Flood-Stricken Algerian Camps.
Click. (Capitol Hill Blue) Feds step up concealment of public documents.
Click. (BP News) Supreme Court agrees to hear partial-birth abortion case.
Click. Gina Holland: Supreme Court allows church's hallucinogenic tea.
Click. Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair: A "100 Per Cent Certainty". The FBI and the Myth of Fingerprints.
Click. Noah S. Leavitt: Nuremberg at 60. How the US is turning away from its proud history.
Click. (CNN) Bikers roll to military funerals to oppose anti-gay protests.
Click. (AP) Three Ohio men charged with planning attacks in Iraq.
Click. (USA Today) Harvard President to step down.
Click. (AP) Boot camp autopsy doctor questioned before.
Click. (Reuters) Bush defends ports deal, threatens veto.
Click. (ABC) Bush: Arab company port deal should proceed.
Click. (Bloomberg) Dubai port purchase pits Bush against lawmakers, Governors in both parties.
Click. (New York Daily News) W aides' biz ties to Arab firm.
Click. (Khaleej) Hughes says P & O takeover wont' be hit by objections in US.
Click. Tom Flocco: Dubai's Grand Central Station purchase raises terrorism questions. Bush friend Robert Bass was lead investor in building sale to royal family.
Click. Nicholas D. Kristoff: Time for an extreme makeover at the White House.
Click. Nat Parry: Bush's mysterious "new programs".
Click. (BBC) Doctors halt "painless executions".
Click. (San Diego Tribune) California seeks alternate way to execute Morales before midnight.
Click. (AP) Berkeley High football star, subject of book, shot and killed.
Click. (AP) Prominent lawyer pleads not guilty in Hollywood wiretapping probe.
Click. (AP) Pregnant inmate dies.
Click. Tom Chorneau: Candidates try to define themselves.
Click. Dan Walters: State has used Enron-style accounting tricks to cover its deficits.
Click. (AP) Hawk habitat money unspent.
Click. (ABC10) Fewer farmworkers employed in California.
Click. Einstein's wife. The life of Mileva Maric Einstein.
Click. (New Yorker) When in Rome: A striking redesign of the Getty's Malibu villa.
Click. (The Guardian) The Thornborough henges have been saved after being overlooked for nearly 1,000 years.
Click. (LA Times) They're building in Baja and boomers are buying.
Click. Meredith Grenier: San Pedro playwright takes 9-11, breaks it apart and puts it back together in "Blockbuster!"
Click. (LA Times) Carmel Valley Zen retreat famous for veggie cuisine, hot springs.
Chewing
gum aids colon surgery recovery +
Drug limits
fetal alcohol damage +
Forensics: DNA
could predict your surname +
The Age of Autism: Who runs Colorado? +
Stressed women prone to early miscarriages +
Action of 'strep' bacteria is determined +
Two hay fever drugs produce equal results +
Clock Molecule's Sensitivity To Lithium Sheds Light On Bipolar Disorder +
Organic Diets Lower Children's Exposure To Two Common Pesticides +
Technology Helps Disabled Kids Find Their Voice +
Research Offers Hope To Increase Islet Supply To Cure Type 1 Diabetes +
Experts Question Prevalent Stereotypes About Autism +
Waking A Sleeping Virus: Taking Aim At One Of Mankind's Most Common Diseases
+
High Risk Of Breast Cancer Associated With Genetic Variation In Leptin And Its
Receptor +
Accutane registry to begin next week
Indians hunted carelessly, study says +
State researchers to track elusive wolverine's secrets +
Elephant seals dive for science +
British explorer prepares for record breaking Artic expedition +
Comet dust is studied in Chicago +
New Fossil Find In New Mexico Named After Artist Georgia O'Keeffe +
Oceans May Soon Be More Corrosive Than When The Dinosaurs Died +
'Kelp Highway' May Have Helped Peopling Of The Americas +
New Clues in the Plant Mating Mystery +
What Constitutes Acceptable Earthquake Risk? +
Successful Venus Express Main Engine Test +
Next Good Dinosaur News Likely To Come From Small Packages +
The Math Of Deadly Waves +
Study Indicates Speed Cameras Could Curb Road Deaths +
Predators 'drove
human species'
(Effect Measure) WHO updates on H5N1 mutations + Quick pandemic flu test 'vital' + Australia increases bird flu research...
Google
concedes desktop security risk +
IBM squeezes more
into chips +
Google Under Fire for China Presence +
Neurosphere: The convergence of
evolution, group mind and the Internet +
Shuttle Atlantis to be retired in two years
February 20, 2006
Click. Shibley Telhami, Eberhard Rhein: In the Middle East, the third way is a myth.
Click. Jane Mayer: The memo. How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.
Click. Marty Lederman: How the Pentagon came to adopt criminal abuse as official policy.
Click. Peter W. Galbraith: The mess.
Click. (Zaman) Washington to hit Iran in January 2007.
Click. (Moscow News) US asks Georgia to use its land for bases to attack Iran.
Click. (Forbes) Hamas picks prime minister.
Click. (Zaman) Muslim brothers to finance Hamas.
Click. (Xinhua) Japan, US to test interceptor technology in March.
Click. (Houston Chronicle) Lawmakers, White House at odds over ports.
Click. (Washington Post) White House working to avoid wiretap probe.
Click. Bob Egelko: Water wars await Alito in debut on Supreme court. Future of nation's rivers, wetlands hinges on 2 key cases.
Click. Layla Bohm: Notes on the Lodi terror trial.
Click. Philip Pan: China's net nanny's slip is showing.
Click. (Mainichi Daily News) Psychiatric report says AUM guru Asahara fit to stand trial.
Click. Arianna Huffington: The Mary Matalin horror show.
Click. Joe Cannon: Crashing into history.
Click. Bob Herbert: The torturers win.
Click. Paul Krugman: The Mensch gap.
Click. (San Diego Tribune) Randy Duke Cunningham. In disgrace but not all alone.
Click. (EffectMeasure) What did we buy for $33 billion and why?
Click. Jennie Jarvie: Latinos sought a US mining's next generation.
Click. Eric J. Sinrod: A federal court has ruled recently that a loan company was not negligent and did not have a duty under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley statute to encrypt a customer database on a laptop computer that fell into the wrong hands.
Click. (SactoBee) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to spend $105 billion on roads and highways over the next 10 years, unfettered by what some consider to be the Holy Grail of public works projects - competitive bidding.
Click. (LA Times) IRS reviewing United Farm Workers and related charities.
Click. Jim Boren: State's gambling tribes risk killing their golden goose.
Click. Matier & Ross: Helpful Amtrak conductor is fired over injuries. She was hurt aiding passenger; railroad says she broke rules.
Click. Mareva Brown, Sam Stanton: Molester says treatment working, soon to be released in California.
Click. Ben Aguirre, Jr.: Local police in California requiring residents to file police reports online.
Click. Jeff Wells: Markovian Parallax Denigrate.
Click. Andrew Gumbel: The original desperate housewife: America remembers Grace Metalious.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Songs For Parents Who Enjoy Drugs.
Click. Kelly Anne-Suarez: Timetables, tour books, catalogs: Bit by printed bit, Wally Shidler pieces together L.A. history.
Click. Luis Sahagun: The Natural History Museum is putting the finishing touches on an atlas that documents 230 breeding bird species in Los Angeles County.
Click. Pictorial diary of sailing on the Great Lakes.
Laser that lets you see through solid objects +
From
Far East, a lesson in how to beat bird flu +
Heavy drinking linked to poor diet +
Foods to control the dieter's stomach +
Rapid spread of bird flu from Asia puzzles experts +
Cervical vaccine jabs may help men too +
US soldiers seek thrill of war on fast bikes +
With Web, nurse extends care +
Scientists dig into pile of 4.5 billion-year-old comet dust +
University finds pig cells can treat diabetes +
125 Big Questions +
'Faster emergence' for diseases +
Fountain of youth within reach? +
New Clues in the Plant Mating Mystery +
Seven-month-olds Show An Abstract Numerical Sense Before They Can Even Talk +
Ovarian Cancer Responds To Aspirin Derivative With Chemo +
Dramatic Metabolic Differences In How Adults, Infants, Children
Process Drugs +
Engineering Nerve Jumper Cables For Spinal Cord Repair In Animal Model +
Quantum Physics: The 'Spin Triplet' Supercurrent +
Researchers Develop Revolutionary New Heart Valve For Children +
Early Human Ancestors Walked On The Wild Side +
Marine Ecologists To Help Rebuild Decreasing Fish Stocks +
Gene Patterns In White Blood Cells Quickly Diagnose Disease +
Estrogen-progestin Menopausal Hormone Therapy And Risk Of Lobular And Tubular
Breast Cancer +
Sex, Cleaner Of Genomes +
Livers From Non-heart Beating Donors Would Boost Organ Supply +
Phytoplankton Bounce Back From Abrupt Climate Change +
Instruments On Alaska's Augustine Volcano Provide New Insights Into Volcanic Processes +
Ticks, Flukes, And Genomics: Emerging Pathogens Revealed +
UCLA Finds Cancer Drug May Improve Progeria; Genetic Disease Causes Accelerated
Aging In Children
February 19, 2006
Click. (Sydney Morning Herald) Iranian suicide bombers wait in the wings.
Click. Borzou Daragahi: Iraqi insurgents seem to time their attacks and informal cease-fires for maximum gain, while distancing themselves from foreign fighters.
Click. (The Australian) Chavez the joker not funny for Bush.
Click. Mary Mitchell: Corner drunk couldn't have bombed worse than FEMA.
Click. Simon Jenkins: Bush and Blair have brilliantly done Bin Laden's work for him.
Click. Anne Woolner: Did politics trump law in spying, tobacco cases.
Click. (Bloomberg) Crude oil may rise in London tomorrow after an attack on a terminal operated by Royal Dutch Shell Plc cut Nigeria's export capacity by about 20 percent.
Click. (Bloomberg) Lawmakers increased pressure on the Bush administration to review its approval of the $6.8 billion sale of a company that operates six U.S. ports to a firm controlled by the United Arab Emirates.
Click. (Bloomberg) Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said President George W. Bush didn't need court approval when he authorized a National Security Agency surveillance program, and that the U.S. law establishing a special court to review national security wiretap requests doesn't need to be changed.
Click. Nanette Asimov: Extra-special education at public expense.
Click. Sam Stanton, Marveva Brown: Sex offenders often disappear after release.
Click. Scott Allen: UC Irvine studies long-term impact of Civil War trauma.
Click. Jacob Adelman: Japanese convenience stores land in California.
Click. Gaye LeBaron: Grocery stores come and go, but loyalties die hard.
Click. (Mountain Democrat) "Paper pregnancies" take local families to Asia.
Click. Elaine Cassel: An issue of competency. The sentencing of Zacarias Moussaoui,
Click. (Xymophora) The Able Danger danger.
Click. Evan Thomas: Inside Dick Cheney's dark, secretive mind-set—and the forces that made it that way.
Click. Richard A. Serrano: Cheney's heart is in the hunt.
Click. Lorenzo Munoz: The Hollywood gospel according to Tyler Perry.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Portugal's Massive Cocaine Busts.
Click. (New Zealand Herald) 3-D technology can be good for business.
Click. Carol Strickland: The secret life of old New Orleans.
Click. Rick Anderson: From spy to psychotic. The latest on the very strange story of former Seattle journalist Susan Lindauer.
Click. Robert Crumb: The religious experience of Philip K. Dick.
February 18, 2006
Click. (Lebanon Daily Star) Iran calls for withdrawal of UK troops from Basra.
Click. David Ignatius: Playing raw, hardball politics in Baghdad.
Click. (Haaretz) Rice warns Iran not to finance Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
Click. (Australian) Iraq to flush out killers in the ranks.
Click. Charley Reese: What Bush is up to.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Hunting for a straight shooter.
Click. (Democracy Now) Professor McCoy exposes the history of CIA interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror.
Click. (CBS) Chavez: US oil exports could end.
Click. (Mother Jones) Iraqi veteran forced out of Senate race by Harry Reid.
Click. (AP) Pelosi wants ethics probe of deficit bill.
Click. (AP) Prosecutors seek 10 years for Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
Click. Graham Stewart: A vice-president with clear aim and intent.
Click. (AP) Child pornographer gets life sentence. Man fingered in federal initiative believed to be first to get life for kid porn.
Click. (Moscow News) Russia’s illegal drugs business worth $15B a year.
Click. Henry K. Lee: Scott Dyleski to stand trial in the murder of Pamela Vitale.
Click. (Recombinomics) H5N1 Bird Flu alert declared in Iraq.
Click. (BBC) The age of retirement should be raised to 85 by 2050 because of trends in life expectancy,
Click. John Updike: The sea, the sea.
Click. (BBC) Jeanne d'Arc relics to be tested
February 17, 2006
Click. (Washington Post) Senate panel rejects spy probe. White House's assurances take air out of effort to investigate warrantless wiretaps.
Click. (New York Times) Doing the President's dirty work.
Click. Katherine Schrader: Judge orders spying documents to be released.
Click. E. J. Dionne, Jr.: No end to phony populism.
Click. (Bloomberg) German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair discuss Iran nuclear problem, urge Hamas to reject violence.
Click. (Bloomberg) Russia has bird flu outbreak in Southwest: Turkey reports suspected cases.
Click. (London Times) Mardi Gras façade will hide a toxic, rubble-strewn wasteland.
Click. (The Independent) African bio-resources "exploited by the West".
Click. Keaye Davidson: Activists push fight on germ research. Appeal filed over Livermore lab's new facility for study of pathogens.
Click. Henry K. Lee: Teen suspect Dyleski's mother testifies in slay case. She says drawings made her consider psychologist for son.
February 16, 2006
NEWSMAKINGNEWS: A look into the time-line in that box inside VP Cheney's brain:
Click. Pete Yost (AP): "Vice President Dick Cheney disclosed Wednesday that he has the power to declassify sensitive government information, authority that could set up a criminal defense for his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby."
"Scooter" Libby says, in essence, that he told the grand jury convened by prosecutor Fitzgerald that his superiors authorized him to out Valerie Plame. He implies he is, therefore, guilty of no crime on this issue. His chief superiors were VP Cheney and President Bush. Is Libby's defense plausible?
Joe Wilson's New York Times editorial regarding the absence of enriched yellow cake uranium from Niger, cited by Bush and Cheney and others as a reason to go to war with Iraq who they alleged had access to that yellow cake, was published on
February 13, 2003.March 2003, at a meeting in the Vice President's Office, attended by Libby and other Cheney staffers. At that meeting, according to Wilson, orders went out to do "a work-up" on Wilson. `A work-up," Wilson explained, "is an intelligence operation to find out everything that you can about Wilson and his family.'" Click to source."At a press conference on Capitol Hill on July 14, Ambassador Wilson, flanked by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), reminded reporters that the "Get Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame" campaign was launched in
The 1995 Executive Order 12958 cited by VP Dick Cheney on
February 15, 2006 in an interview with Fox News re: the Armstrong Ranch shooting incident, was amended on March 25, 2003. Here is the text of the amended Executive Order 13292 Click. Its new provisions are in bold. (By these provisions, the Vice President appears to have arguably have expanded legal powers to declassify material.)On
July 14, 2003, Valerie Plame was outed as an undercover CIA operative by Robert Novak in a news article.Click. Gina Holland: Justice Alito hires trusted conservatives.
Click. (AP) Court voids Michael Jackson’s ex-wife’s loss of parental rights
Click. (London Times) Britain plans no-go areas planned as bird flu closes in.
Click. Pam Easton: Is it time for police surveillance cameras in homes?
Click. Brenda Stardom: I'm A Gamer! Hear Me Roar.
Click. Henry K. Lee: Scott Dyleski housemate says he found gruesome to-do list.
Science: Sick kids may be at risk for mental ills + Modern technology finds ancient Maya ruins + Program helps in designing artificial DNA + Technology may revolutionize kitchens + Scientists study spousal illness effects + New test possible for shaken baby syndrome + Doctors Test Robotic Surgeon For Laparoscopy + Antioxidant Supplementation Not Associated With Decreased Risk Of Prostate Cancer + Targeting Pancreatic Cancer + Unique Equine Cataract Surgery Offered On Routine Basis + Yale Statistics Professor Identifies Flaws In IOC Figure Skating Scoring System + New Compound May Protect Against Liver Cancer + New Targeted Treatment For Brain Tumors Shows Promise In Pre-clinical Models + Simple System Predicts Mortality Of Older Americans With 81 Percent Accuracy
February 15, 2006
Click. (Bloomberg) US Homeland Security Chief Chertoff says he is responsible for Katrina failures.
Click. R. J. Eskow: Cheney's Chappaquiddick. The real story emerges.
Click. (Bloomberg) Cheney, facing criticism on shooting, to comment for first time.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Shooter slips on a silencer.
Click. (Zaman) US and Israel to use isolation plan to overthrow Hamas.
Click. Glen Greenwald: Silencing Bush critics with prison.
Click. (Independent) "Death squad" kills outspoken critic of Kazakh government.
Click. Daniel Finkelstein: How I woke up to a nightmare plot to steal centuries of law and liberty.
Click. (Independent) Terror threat -- the great deception.
Click. Wayne Madsen: National security whistleblowers testify to planted classified documents and other abuses.
Click. (London Times) Abu Ghraib scandal reignited.
Click. Jason Dearen: Hearing highlights the macabre. Prosecutor paints teenager Dyleski charged in Lafayette slaying as disturbed young man.
Click. Steve Geissinger: Governor Schwarzenegger risks north - south water fight.
Click. (Lodi News) Juror chosen in Lodi terror case.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Help Find Jennifer Keese.
Click. (LA Times) Judge names receiver to fix prison health system.
Click. (Daily Bulletin) Former Chino corrections officer convicted of federal charges for helping the Nazi Low Riders.
Click. Daniel Terdiman: Power lunching with wizards and warriors.
Click. (Yahoo) Willie Nelson releases gay cowboy song.
Click. (Effect Measure) The dying swan.
Science: Study Shows Levitra May Protect The Heart + Einstein's Theory 'Improved'? + Astronomers Find Giant Lightning Storm At Saturn + Researchers Release New Variety Of Asparagus + Botox Could Help Target Resistant Tumors For Treatment + Intensive Efforts Launched To Determine Genetic And Environmental Roots Of Common Diseases + New Images Capture Virus In Extraordinary Detail + 'Roof Of The World' Tells Tale Of Colliding Continents, Earth's Interior + Men With Heart Disease May Be at Risk for Death With Blood Sugar in 'Normal' Range, Women at Lower Risk + Wisconsin Scientists Find A Way To Make Human Collagen In The Lab + Findings Advance Use Of Adult Stem Cells For Replacement Bone + Copper Could Help Prevent The Spread Of Flu Infections + Scientists Seek To Unwrap The Sweet Mystery Of The Sugar Coat On Bacteria + Scientists Tweak Cervical Cancer Vaccine Technology To Fight Most Common Sexually Transmitted Disease -- Genital Warts + Protein Translation In Sperm + Post-pregnancy Events Promote Breast Tumor Metastasis + Scientists Seek To Unwrap The Sweet Mystery Of The Sugar Coat On Bacteria
February 14, 2006
Click. Larisa Alexandrovna: Outed CIA officer Plame was working on Iran, intelligence sources say.
Click. (LA Times) Envoys say Iran has begun nuclear work.
Click. (Houston Chronicle) White House strongly defends Katrina role.
Click. Eugene Robinson: Col. Jessup goes a-hunting.
Click. Bronwen Maddox: Merkel's makeover gives her flying start - for now.
Click. Charlotte Higgins: The Royal Shakespeare Company is about to embark on a dangerous gamble -- and it needs to.
Click. Brenda Stardom: PayPal Phishers' Endless Bait, Plus Snowboarding, Hannah Teter and Music.
Click. Ian Sample: Billionaires offer cash to speed up research.
February 12, 2006
Click. (London Times) Savage Katrina report.
Click. (E & P) McClellan: Bush told about Texas shooting Saturday -- but not Cheney's role.
Click. (Bloomberg) Iran postpones talks with Russia, insists on enriching uranium on its own soil.
Click. Video of Brit troops beating Iraqi kids.
Click. Robert F. Worth: Iraqi prime minister keeps job by one vote. Al-Jaafari strikes deal with anti-US al-Sadr group to stay.
Click. Jane Smiley: A turning point for the rule of law. "But there could be a more sinister reason for the new shamelessness. Isn't there always a moment in the life of every dictatorship when the tyrants take the gloves off in public?"
Click. Beth Quinn: An open letter to NSA about my wiretap.
Click. (KESQ) Tip by friend led to arrest of murder suspect Dyleski.
Click. William Lobdell, Christine Hanley: Aryan inmate capital trials to start.
Click. Darwin Porter: The extraordinary story that lay behind Marlon's Brando's smoldering image.
Click. Brenda Stardom: It's The Moon, It's The Moon.
Click. (Pravda) Five versions of Mozart's death.
Click. David Crossland: Beatles Memories to revive Hamburg's sin city.
February 11, 2006
Click. Jack Chang: Brazil poised to join the world's nuclear elite.
Click. Professor Froomkin: Decreasingly hypothetical questions.
Click. Jose Mysak: Orrick explains why public finance is going private.
Click. Brendan Murray: Here's one Fed nominee that didn't draw accolades.
Click. (AP) Governor Schwarzenegger wants to reshape approach to women prisoners.
Click. Rong-Gong Lin II: California stem cell bid may be in limbo for year-plus.
Click. Sabin Russell: Board approves rules for California stem cell research.
Click. Vanessa Hua: Falun Gong group to make showing along parade route.
Click. Richard C. Morais: When all else fails, threats (re: Falun Gong).
Click. Lea Bevins: Geocaching, benchmarking go hand-in-hand for lab workers.
Click. Tim Tesconi: Record $1 billion for North Coast grapes.
Click. L. Pierce Carson: Napa grapes brought in more than $500 million; harvest up, prices steady, and cabernet is still the king.
Click. Lisa Richardson: Blazing a trail for followers of the "Divine Feminine".
Click. (LA Times) Removal of molecule helps mice to mingle.
Click. (National Institute of Health) Mice lacking social memory molecule take bullying in stride.
February 10, 2006
Click. Simon Jenkins: Our leaders have forgotten the legacy of Lawrence of Arabia.
Click. John W. Dean: Vice President Cheney and the fight over "inherent" Presidential powers: His attempt to swing the pendulum back began long before 9/11.
Click. Paul Kelby: Diamond industry still funding bloody conflicts in Africa.
Click. Daniel Howden: How a meeting of leaders in Mecca set off the cartoon wars around the world.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Thwarted Terrorists Attacks? Blatant Bush Bullshit.
Click. Juan Cole: In pictures. Cheney Authorized Libby to Disclose Classified Documents
Click. Webster Tarpley: Recruiting Europe for Bush's attack on Iran.
Click. (AP) CIA staffer accused of burglaries. Administrative worker charged in 17 incidents.
Click. (Science Daily) New analysis shows three human migrations out of Africa.
February 9, 2006
Click. (Pravda) Poland to become the stronghold of US-led policies in Europe.
Click. Kaveh L. Afrasiabi: China's energy insecurity and Iran's nuclear crisis.
Click. Michael Chang: Making the bamboo bend.
Click (Financial Times) Putin suggests meeting with Hamas.
Click. (National Post) Canada's military is embarking on its largest affirmation of Arctic sovereignty.
Click. Kelly Hearn: Woes mount for oil firms in Ecuador.
Click. (BBC) Africa "too weak" to fight H5N1.
Click. (ABC) Italy may put CIA agents on trial in absentia.
Click. (E&P) National Journal: Libby authorized to leak by Cheney, others.
Click. Doug Thompson: John Boehner is just another Tom DeLay.
Click. (CNN) Ex-FEMA chief: I may tell all about Katrina.
Click. Nathan Callahan: Seymour Hersh's Advice: Keep your second passport alive.
Click. Margaret Carlson: Republicans' "angry Hillary" ploy won't work.
Click. Jeff Wells: The trouble with fascists.
Click. Bob Barr: NSA Kabuki theater.
Click. Jeannie Shawl: Specter bill would require court oversight of NSA domestic spying.
Click. Mark Clayton: US plans massive data sweep.
Click. Terry Allen: Information is power. "The draft lays out how some 60,000 already strapped town and county offices must keep the birth and death records under lock and key and report all document requests to Washington."
Click. Bob Egelko: Aged, disabled can sue states if nursing is cut. Federal court in San Francisco revives Oregon case that was dismissed.
Click. (AP) Stolen car driven by teen moving 2 mph when LA officer fired.
Click (ABC) "Gene doping" a new threat to Olympic fairness.
Click. (Bloomberg) Cendant judge declares second mistrial in Frobes accounting fraud case.
Click. Michael Liedtke: Google's new feature seeks greater access to PCs.
Click. (CNN) Harrison Ford and the movie machine.
Click. Justin Jouvenal: San Francisco's Japantown for sale
Click. (BBC) Jack London's 1906 quake journey.
Click. Mark Giilbert: Touring Vietnam's famed Ho Chi Minh trail by motorcycle.
Click. Kevin Howe: Seamount life dazzles researchers. Massive colored organisms thrive in total darkness.
Science: Woman to try personalized cancer vaccine made out of her own tumor + Kidney Cancer Patients May Be Over treated, Study Finds + Robot Assisted Surgery More Accurate Than Conventional Surgery + Scientists Re-engineer A Well-known Antibiotic To Counter Drug Resistance + Brain Images Show Individual Dyslexic Children Respond To Spelling Treatment + Vitamin D Inhibits Progression Of Some Prostate Cancers + Removing DNA Repair Gene Causes Metabolic Syndrome + New Cochlear Implant Could Improve Hearing + One In 14 Men Having A Heart Attack Drive Themselves To Hospital + Nigeria plans huge bird flu cull + Chemical blocks HIV infection + Drug may cut stroke disability
Click. (CNN) Navy to increase numbers inside Iraq.
Click. (Interfax) Russia to fulfill TOR-M1 missile contract with Iran.
Click. (Daily Star) Is Iranian power the Arab world's worst nightmare?
Click. (Moscow News) Report: Russian military, German businessmen aid Iran arms program.
Click. (Prensa Latina) Morales warns against US blackmail.
Click. Michael Hirsh: Wanted. Competent big brothers. "Today, very quietly, the core of TIA (Admiral Poindexter's old Total Information Awareness) survives with a new codename of Topsail."
Click. Carol D. Leonig: Secret Court's judges were warned about NSA spy data.
Click. (LA Times) Congressional intelligence committee is briefed on highly classified details of President Bush's controversial monitoring program.
Click. (Politechbot) Sen. Specter plans legislation on NSA surveillance program.
Click. (Rolling Stone) God's Senator. Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brownback.
Click. Bob Herbert: Illegal and inept.
Click. Sydney Blumenthal: The President, the stripper and the Attorney General.
Click. Juan Cole: Condaleeza Rice is a liar for blaming Syria, Iran for inciting violence over caricature of Prophet.
Click. Allan Sloane: Bush's Social Security sleight of hand.
Click. Declan McCullagh: Bill would force Web sites to delete personal info.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Hissing at Firefox.
February 8, 2006
Click. Andrew C. Revkin: A young Bush appointee resigns his post at NASA.
Click. (Narcosphere) NSA's relationship with Reuters and AP.
Click. (Reuters) Saudi retains oil power as Bush struggles to break free.
Click. (AFP) Afghanistan revokes licences of 1,600 NGOs.
Click. Chris Lehmann: Bush flickers out, Republicans face mass hibernation.
Click. Jeanne Cummings: White House can't sweep away Abramoff.
Click. Doug Thompson: They came to praise King and bury Bush.
Click. (Breitbart) Senator Clinton accuses Republicans of playing the fear card.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Who's hormonal? Hillary or Dick?
Click. Greg Mitchell: The unasked question in the domestic spying debate.
Click. Jeff Zeleny: McCain, Obama spar over ethics reform.
Click. Maureen Farrell: Top 10 "conspiracy theories' about George W. Bush.
Click. (BBC) Anti-cartoon protests go online.
Click. (AFP) Chirac slams media “provocation” in printing cartoons.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Madness Fuels the Cartoon Wars.
Click. Todd J. Gillman: USDA says horse slaughter for meat can continue.
Click. Lynda Gledhill: California's Capitol-weary legislators retreat to resorts. Sacramento deemed too distracting for their policy work.
Click. (Reuters) Smiling and single, woman leads Peru presidential race.
Click. (AFP) Africa faces devastating bird flu epidemic.
Click. John Heilpren: Make way for Mr. Beale! New Arthur is king of Broadway
Science: Super vision sans bionics + Scientists Force Viruses To Evolve As Better Delivery Vehicles For Gene Therapy + Berkeley Researchers Lay Groundwork For Cell Version Of DNA Chip + Gut Protein Found To Protect Against Infection And Intestinal Breakdown + Research Into Soy Will Continue But Soy Is Not A Solution For Heart Disease + Proteins' Subtle 'Backrub' Motion Could Have Important Implications + All Placebos Not Created Alike: In A Trial Of Sham Acupuncture Vs. Oral Placebo Pill, Patients Experienced Greater Pain Reduction From Sham Device + A Bathroom That Cleans Itself + New Brain Hormone Puts Brakes On Reproduction + Computer Use Deleted As Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Cause: More Common In Assembly Line Work + Premature babies 'can defy odds' + Oldest T. rex relative unveiled + Space rock re-opens Mars debate
February 7, 2006
Click. (Drudge) Coretta Scott King funeral turns political. Bush based by Jimmy Carter and Reverend Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder of Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Click. (ABC) Gunmen assassinated a Sunni community leader Tuesday.
Click. (CBS) Convicted 9/11 cellmate set free.
Click. (Channelnewasia) Iranians lost new assault on Danish embassy.
Click. (ABC) England. Radical cleric sentenced to seven years.
Click. Juan Cole: Sadr pledges solidarity with Syria against Israel, UK, US.
Click. Declan McCullagh, Anne Broache: NSA eavesdropping. How it might work.
Click. Jeffrey Goldberg: True believer. George W. Bush's speechwriter.
Click. (Bloomberg) Bush faces toughest budget battle over his plans to reduce Medicare costs.
Click. Jeffrey Steinberg: Iran showdown is the fuse for a global monetary explosion.
Click. Greg Miller: Chief of CIA's counter-terror center ousted.
Click. Zachary Coile: The President's budget impact on California: Tech industry gets boon, but spending cuts would hit hard.
Click. David Perlman: The President's budget impact on science: Lofty goals for NASA -- but some programs facing cuts.
Click. (AP) Chiron cleared in SEC investigation.
Click. David Postman, Hal Bernton: How scheming lobbyist Abramoff operated in Seattle firm.
Click. Susan Gilmore: Lawyer breaks new ground in animal cases.
Click. Robert W. Welkos: The names cited in an indictment of private eye Anthony Pellicano read like a road map leading to Bertram Fields and his famous clients.
Click. Warren St. John: Man who helped create JT Leroy unmasks scheme. Female partner got artistic boost after they forged persona.
Click. Steve Friess: Podfading takes its toll.
Science: Natural Compound Prolongs Lifespan And Delays Onset Of Aging-related Traits In A Short-lived Vertebrate + Thousands Of Barges Could Save Europe From Deep Freeze + Disposable Catheter Breakthrough, A World First + Researchers Break Chain Of Biochemical Events That Brain Cancer Cells Use To Evade Therapy + Home Paper Shredders Pose Serious Injury Risk To Toddlers + Heparin Prepared Synthetically Could Replace Animal-derived Drug + Older Adults May Reduce Risk Of Metabolic Syndrome By Eating More Whole Grains + Scientists Trace Origin Of Shark's Electric Sense + Alzheimer's Found To Be Mostly Genetic: Largest Twin Study Ever Undertaken Confirms Highest Estimates Of Genetic Risk + Mutation In Brain Cells Of Descendants Of Abraham Lincoln Suggest He Suffered From Movement Disorder + Broccoli chemical's cancer check + Rat brain 'can smell in stereo' + Japan tries to save giant radish
Click. (Insight Magazine) Karl Rove counting heads on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Click. (ACLU) Eavesdropping 101: What can the NSA do?
Click. (Daily Kos) NSA spying. How big could it be?
Click. Kathryn Joanne Dixon: "You're doin' a heckuva job, Gonzales!"
Click. (Moscow News) Russian ultranationalist leader expects US to attack Iran in late March.
Click. Yin Gang: China has no sympathy for a Persian atom bomb.
Click. (AKI) Iran concerned about possible coup in Syria.
Click. (AKI) Taliban video claims Muslim state in Waziristan.
Click. (Itar-Tass) Japan and North Korea talks in Beijing focus on nuke problem settlement.
Click. Philip Adams: "There was a time when scandals felled prime ministers, when even the odd presidency died of shame. Not any more. Just as engines can be powered by the methane from pig shit, leaders in Western democracies seem empowered by their deceits, energized by the venality of their administrations."
Click. (The Australian) Melbourne underworld figure Mario Condello was shot dead last night, gunned down in his driveway just days before he was due to appear in court on charges of conspiracy to murder.
Click. Helen Nugent: A London-based arms dealer was caught by FBI agents trying to sell weapons worth millions of pounds to a Colombian terror group.
Click. (Prensa Latina) Chile's Bachelet and Congress: Stormy honeymoon.
Click. (Le Monde) In Bolivia the military plan and wait.
Click. (Egypt Today) Out of the red.
Click. Judith Ryan: Aboriginal art has moved to the forefront of contemporary art practice in Australia.
Science:
Scientists hail discovery of hundreds of new species in remote New Guinea +
Dunedin company in colorectal cancer breakthrough 
Click.
Brenda Stardom: Absentee: London's Newest Next Big Thing.
February 6, 2006
Click. (Raw Story) GOP senators refuse to put Attorney General under oath on wiretaps.
Click. (Raw Story) Attorney General won't say whether non-terrorist suspects are being targeted by wiretaps
Click. (AP) Update 9: Gonzales faces tough questions on spying.
Click. (Bloomberg) US Attorney General Gonzales tells US Senators spying legal, equivalent to "radar outposts".
Click. James Ridgeway: Is George Bush Opening Your Mail? Asked directly by the U.S. Senate, Alberto Gonzales won't say.
Click. (Firedoglake) Attorney General Gonzales hearing blogged.
Click. (Bloomberg) Bush's policies, election-year politics may block deficit reduction goal.
Click. (Reuters) Bush Medicare plan could face tough test in Congress.
Click. (Hactivismo) Who helped the NSA?
Click. (Reuters) Iran to IAEA: End snap inspections by mid-February.
Click. (Pravda) Exhibition of Prophet Muhammad cartoons to be organized in Moscow.
Click. Course on "hostile intervention".
Click. John Leyden: Greece rocked by mobile phone tapping scandal.
Click. Steve Geisinger: California crackdown on sexual offenders bogs down. Election-year political battles hinder legislation.
Click. Ian Hoffman: Lawrence Livermore Lab officials excited by new H-bomb project.
Click. Rick DelVecchio: Treasures of California history on display to celebrate Bancroft Library's centennial.
Click. Grace Rauh: Chinese students check out schools in Fremont, California.
Click. Jon Van: Lab works on program that emphasizes context in Web searches.
Click. Peter Pae: Sea launch may be floating pretty as satellite launch business picks up.
Click. Joan Acocella: The saintly sinner. The two-thousand-year obsession with Mary Magdalene.
Click. Sam Jaffe: An eye test for Alzheimers.
Science: The Long Research Road To A New Vaccine + Study Shows Minimally Invasive Lung Surgery Has Low Risk With Same Results As Open Surgery + Life-threatening Lupus Responds To Stem Cell Transplant Therapy + Engineered Heart Tissue Offers Insights Into Irregular Heartbeats, Defibrillator Failure + Gay survey returns surprising results + Purdue creates virus imaging program
TODAY 1:00 a.m. PST.
Click. Bob Herbert: Do you know what they know?
Click. Robert Fisk: Don't be fooled, this isn't an issue of Islam versus secularism.
Click. Paul Krugman: The effectiveness thing.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Portuguese Lesbians Test Marriage Laws.
Click. Laurence M. Vance: The first duty of a Christian soldier.
Click. Karen Kwiatkowski: Finally I understand the President.
Click. Kathryn Dixon: Nuke chickens coming home to roost on American know-nothings.
Click. Joseph Sobran: Lincoln's party.
Click. Justin Teo: The business of medical rescue and security assistance.
February 5, 2006
Click. Jeff Chester: The end of the Internet?
Click. (London Times) Russian roulette. Moscow must take a central role if the Iran nuclear crisis is to be resolved.
Click. Brian Brady: Revealed: secret plan to keep UK troops permanently in Iraq.
Click. (World Socialist Web) European media publish anti-Muslim cartoons: An ugly and calculated provocation.
Click. Lisa Zagaroli: "Clean audit" elusive target for Pentagon.
Click. (AP) Interpol: USS Cole attack planner escapes.
Click. Michael Isikoff: The CIA Leak: Plame was still covert
Click. Maura Reynolds: GOP lawmakers' loyalties face a test.
Click. Curt Anderson: Much evidence against Padilla can't be used in terror trial.
Click. (San Diego Tribune) Wilkes' power of persuasion.
Click. (Seattle Times) The administration's no-plan salmon plan.
Click. Denis Hamill: One Marine's bravest battle.
Click. Carla Marinucci: Governor Schwarzenegger''s new chief of staff piles it on. Susan Kennedy now also is head campaigner.
Click. Debra J. Saunders: Another government taking - Conway Ranch, Davis, California.
Click. (Xymphora) Coalitions: power to the corporadoes!
Click. Greg Krikorian: Music figure held in Pellicano case.
Click. Tina Hesman: Researchers look for human applications in hibernation study.
Click. Exhibition at the Met: The Unicorn Tapestries.
Click. Rose James: Try the olive oil, it's from one's own tree, darling.
Click. Mark R. Chellgren: Get a tropical shirt, drink a mojito and live the Key West life.
Click. (Newsweek) Exclusive. Can the President order a killing on US soil?
Click. (IRNA) Ahmadinejad orders suspension of NPT Additional Protocol.
Click. (Xinhuanet) Iran starts retaliatory moves against referral.
Click. John Daniszewski, Alissa J. Rubin, Paul Richter: Iraq colored the debate over how to rein in Iran.
Click. David Ignatius: Did the French connection kill Hariri?
Click. (The Australian) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is considering buying enough rifles to arm one million people ready to repel a possible US invasion.
Click. Christina Lamb: British target lair of the opium lords.
Click. Trent Seibert: Lobbyists are writing laws.
Click. (StarTribune) Feds seizing Canadian prescription drugs Americans have ordered.
Click. Robert Elder: Judge takes Congress to task in bankruptcy case. Legal world abuzz about tirade calling act inane, confusing.
Click. (The Independent) The Diana files.
Click. (London Times) Fakespeare.
Click. John Harlowe: Chinglish -- it's a word in a million.
Click. Paul Dalgarno: Forget The Da Vinci Code … carvings at Rosslyn reveal symphony for the devil.
Click. (Insnews.org) Fear of clowns no laughing matter.
Click. Kurt Vonnegut: All the other species are dying and so will we. I’m whistling as I walk past the graveyard... whistling as beautifully as I can.
Click. Oscar Avila: Newberry's "Mayan Bible" draws experts, immigrants.
February 4, 2006
Click. (CBS) Country vows retaliation if it is referred to UN Security Council.
Click. (ABC) IAEA reports Iran to UN Security Council.
Click. (BBC) Iran standoff moves to new level.
Click. Gordon Prather: President bonkers Bolton.
Click. Ahmadinejad: Few strongly armed countries after imposing scientific apartheid.
Click. (Bloomberg) Egypt detained UK's Galloway "overnight" on National Security concerns.
Click. (Washington Times) A US Navy construction battalion fresh from Hurricane Katrina relief duty is battling the elements and daily insurgent attacks to build permanent bases in the dangerous Anbar province.
Click. Mark Mazzetti: Pentagon plans for "long war" against extremism.
Click. Pauline Jelinek: Army teaches troops how to pick a spouse.
Click. Dan Glaister: US crops left to rot as Mexicans leave the fields for better-paid jobs.
Click. Ann Woolner: There was no evil at Enron; Just ask Lay, Skilling.
Click. Ramon Coronado: Richard Hamlin could face sentencing on March 27.
Click. Sean Reily: For 32 years, Navajo Pauline Whitesinger has resisted U.S. efforts to force her off what it says is Hopi land.
Click. Tom Baldwin: Can white superstars breathe new life into downbeat Motown?
Click. Nicholas Roe tracks the A-list around Francis Ford Coppola's Central American hideouts.
Click. (BBC) Infertility link in Iceman's DNA.
February 3, 2006
Click. Doug Thompson: Bush approved multi-agency program to spy on Americans.
Click. Michael Matza: The brains at the helm of Hamas.
Click. Bob Egelko: Evidence of harm required in "move away" custody battle. California Supreme Court places greater challenge on contesting parent.
Click. (AP) Riverside County Judge won't seal case sex predator case involving 49 suspects.
Click. Kate Folmar: Governor Schwarzenegger to settle suit over aides' data.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Igogaine: RKL's Jason Sears' Tragic Death.
Click. (Xinhua) Pentagon to keep civilians under surveillance.
Click. (Bloomberg) Egyptian ferry with 1,300 on board disappears on Red Sea of Saudi Arabia.
Click. (London Times) Nuclear negotiators hope for the best but are expecting the worst.
Click. (Bloomberg) Iran warns of retaliation if referred to UN.
Click. Rosemary Bennett and Michael Evans: Bush "tried to lure Saddam into war using UN aircraft".
Click. Jeremy Page: Ukraine turns back to Moscow as Orange Revolution is betrayed.
Click. (Breitbart) Kurdish officials are inviting foreign oil companies to explore untapped reserves in their northern region, angering Arab countrymen and raising concern about chaos in Iraq's oil industry.
Click. (AKI) Hamas plans mission in Latin America.
Click. (The Independent) As the European press asserted its right to publish hostile cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed, anger in the Arab world reached boiling point.
Click. Gabriel Shoenfeld: Has the New York Times violated the Espionage Act?
Click. Paul Krugman: State of delusion.
Click. Toby Eckert: Senator Feinstein introduces plan to curb "earmarks".
Click. (Donkey) Who is John Boehner of Ohio, to succeed DeLay as House Majority Leader?
Click. (CNN) Congressman Weldon subpoenaed for 9/11 trial.
Click. (SF Chronicle) Lawrence Livermore Lab will install high-powered machine guns to thwart a possible terrorist attack.
Click. Joe Keohane: Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here" envisioned an America in thrall to a homespun fascist dictator. Newly reissued, it's as unsettling a read as ever.
Click. Larry Gross: Year of the queer: Hollywood and homosexuality.
February 1, 2006
Click. Paul Levian: Iran and the jaws of a trap.
Click. (Mail & Guardian) US forces batter al-Sadr militia in Baghdad.
Click. Tom Porteous: The Great Game goes on.
Click. Kamiguri Takashi, Abe Hideaki: Japan's Iran dilemma and oil.
Click. (Bloomberg) Venezuela expels US attache for alleged espionage.
Click. Robert Steinberg: Avoiding hard questions on 9/11 terror
attack not the answer.
Click. Mark Kleiman: Libby and the "national security" defense.
Click. Jeremy Scahill: A 9/11 conspirator in King Bush's court?
Click. Petty Noonan: "I hope she drowns." The implosion of the Democratic
Party. Plus Tom Shales's snobbery and a tribute to Wendy Wasserstein.
Click. (The Guardian) Bush told Blair we're going to war, memo shows.
Click. (Bloomberg) Boehner named US House majority leader to succeed DeLay, beating Blunt.
Click. Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman: As Alito takes Supreme Court seat, Ohio GOP guts election protection.
Click. (Wikipedia) US Congressmen edit Wikipedia references about themselves.
Click. Richard Simon, Joel Havemann: California will feel much of the
impact of a narrowly approved federal budget measure, losing at least $1.7 billion in assistance.
Click. Anthony York: Race, class, gender and ideology all define Orange County Senate fight.
Click. Malcolm: Maclachlan: From Paris to pike, Fish and Game has seen it all.
Click. Lori A. Carter: A former Bennett Valley volunteer firefighter
and Rohnert Park public safety officer was charged Wednesday with secretly
recording sex acts involving minors and posting the images on the Internet.
Click. Renee Khoury: Google looks to outer space.
Science and health:
Molecular Force Field Helps Cancer Cells Defend Against Attack +
Scientists Dispel Late-Night Eating/Weight Gain Myth +
New Plant Compounds Could Aid Blood Flow +
Molecular Force Field Helps Cancer Cells Defend Against Attack +
Yale Findings Hold Promise For Stopping Progression Of Bipolar Disorder
Click. (The Guardian) Iran says its "retaliation would come 'simultaneously" with any decision on
referral by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear
watchdog, which meets in emergency session in Vienna today."
Click. Ahmadinejad: Selflessness and martyrdom-seeking, only way to save mankind.
Click. (Middle-Eastonline) Companies pulling out of Iraq.
Click. William S. Lind:
The next act.
Click. (BigNews) Frenzied talks in Cairo over future of Palestinian leadership.
Click. Nigel Hawkes:
New bird flu vaccine may be key to preventing pandemic.
Click. Leo Lewis: The gilded youth who began a war (in Japan).
Click. (The Guardian) Around 90% of drugs used to treat newborn babies have not been tested on the young, report says.
Click. Jack M. Balkan: The NSA program and the rule of law.
Click. (Houston Chronicle) Deception kept Enron stock up, Koenig says.
Click. (CNN) US House of Representatives cuts health care spending for poor, elderly.
Click. (AP) Guatemala police arrest armed Christian fundamentalist vigilantes.
Click. Anna Price: The misery of being an orchestra player.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Death In Vegas and the Punk Scene.
Click. (NY Daily News) CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald collected 10,000 pages of documents - including the most sensitive terrorism memos in the U.S. government - from Vice President Cheney's office, he said in court papers released yesterday.
Click. (Bloomberg) Chertoff failed to label Katrina a "catastrophic event," Comptroller says.
Click. (AKI) Al Jazeera and Latin America's Telesur clinch deal.
Click. (Itar-Tass) London Conference adopts 5-year plan for Afghanistan.
Click. (ArmyNews.com) Soldiers joined marines in asymmetrical war game in Maryland.
Click. Patrick Radden Keefe: I spy black satellites.
Click. Fred Cederholm: Who will succeed as "King of the World" — the US dollar, or oil?
Click. Maureen Dowd: Didn't see it coming again.
Click. Joe Conason: Bush on health care: Anybody have a leech?
Click. Philip Kaiser: FDR's closest call: What if he lost?
Click. Bob Egelko: "Partial birth" abortion ban held unconstitutional. Appeals courts in S.F. and N.Y. issue rulings hours apart.
Click. (AP) Judge sets $200,000 bond for Andrea Yates.
Click. (AP) Sex offender bill passes in California assembly.
Click. Paul Libertore: Point Reyes Light's new owner ruffles West Marin.
Click. Brenda Stardom: The Email Worm Is Ticking Fast.
Click. Patrick Goldstein: Make way for studio outsiders on the red carpet.
Click. (SeniorJournal.com) Heart disease undiagnosed in many women because plaque spreads.
Click. Jia-Rui Chong: Stem cell procedure may help ease lupus.
Science and Health: Hidden infant immune 'safety net' found + Looking inside rocks to find life on Mars + Study: Frankincense may fight some cancers + Source Of Crucial Immune Cell In The Skin Discovered + Treatment Of Down Syndrome In Mice Restores Nerve Growth In Cerebellum + New Hope for Cancer: Tumor-killing Cell + New Planet Is Bigger Than Pluto
January 31, 2006
Click. Amity Shlaes: Meet Bush speechwriter, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Click. John Brown: "Transformational diplomacy" Spreading Bush's gospel.
Click. Stephanie Simon: Evangelicals branch out politically.
Click. Vladimir Isachenkov: Putin boasts of new missiles capability.
Click. (Breitbart.com) A document obtained by Iran on the nuclear black market serves no other purpose than to make an atomic bomb, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday.
Click. (Breitbart) Iraq tries to contain bird flu outbreak.
Click. (SFGate) Police can't use a suspect's confession against him in court if they intentionally delay reading him his rights until after he confesses, then ask him to repeat his statement, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Click. (Allhiphop.com) Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney's front yard "toilet papered" with VCR tape.
Click. Carrie Kirby: Inside look at a billionaire's budget. Larry Ellison's spending worries his accountant.
Click. Sam Smith: All in the family. The Bushes and Clinton.
Click. Iris Kuo: "Licensing effect" seen in dieting, charity, hiring.
Click. Suzanne Leigh: Law annoys private cord banks.
Click. (AP) Senate roll call - Alito vote.
Click. Phoebe Eaton: Revenge of the Weinsteins. Now that they’re free of Disney, with a $1 billion war chest, you’d think Harvey and Bob Weinstein would be happy.
Click. Alex Morris: The pansexual teen.
Click. Amy Larocca: Vera Wang's second honeymoon.
(Science Daily) Giving Déjà Vu A Second Look + Penn To Test New Thermal Energy Procedure To Reduce Asthmatic Symptoms + Using Sound Waves To Induce Nuclear Fusion With No External Neutron Source + Stem Cells From Muscles Can Repair Cartilage + Bones From Blood: Scientists Aim To Break New Ground On Fractures
TODAY Tuesday (1/31/06) 2:20 a.m. PST.
Click. (London Times) Iran pushed closer to sanctions.
Click. (London times) EU hands Hamas lifeline but White House acts to cut aid.
Click. Fareed Zakaria: Living in denial.
Click. William M. Arkin: NSA Expands, Centralizes domestic spying. Code name(s) of the week: DIAZ, Emergejust, Freedom, Highpoint, PASSGEAR, Viceroy.
Click. (Kiro-7) NSA listens from Army's Yakima training center.
Click. Gordon Prather: To MOX or not to MOX.
Click. Martin Samuel: Invade Iran? There's another way, stupid.
Click. (The Independent) The world according to George W. Bush.
Click. (Digby) It's the only way we can live.
Click. (Marginal Revolution) Ed Lazear has just been nominated to be chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisors.
Click. (CBS) New U.S. Commander to change Iraq focus.
Click. Josh Gerstein: Hillary Clinton: "Deliberate" neglect laid to Bush in policy on Katrina's aftermath.
Click. Nicholas D. Kristof: Take a hike.
Click. (Tricky Dick) Bob Woodruff was set up.
Click. (New Zealand Herald) Row erupts over New Zealand's place in US spy network.
Click. (IRNA) Indian President leaves for three-nation tour.
Click. Peter J. Middlebrook, Sharon M. Miller: Living on a life support machine. The challenge of rebuilding Afghanistan.
Click. (Pakistan Tribune) Nawaz seeks masses cooperation for political war against Musharraf regime.
Click. (Prensa Latin) Posada's trial a farce.
Click. (Spain Herald) Moratinos blames Hamas victory on international community.
Click. Wendy Wasserstein: Shiksa Goddess.
Click. Stephanie Hedgecoke: Cherokee court upholds gay marriage.
Click. Brenda Stardom: My Latest Novel: Wolves.
Click. Dan Weikel: Surf art catches a break.
January 30, 2006
Click. (Zaman) Hamas awaits two critical meetings.
Click. Philip Thornton: UN unveils plan to release untapped wealth of...$7 trillion (and solve the world's problems at a stroke).
Click. Paul Krugman: A false balance.
Click. (Bloomberg) Exxon net soars to $10.7 billion; 2005 profit most ever for US country.
Click. Mark Martin: Leno caught in conservative crosshairs. After another Capitol defeat for GOP on sex offender bill, San Francisco assemblyman's alternative draws fiery attacks nationwide.
Click. David Ryan: Legal loopholes open door for adoption abuse.
Click. Jane Ellen Stevens: Ending an awful irony: Until a new California law (SB 33) went into effect, the "incest exception" allowed many child sex abusers to go free.
Click. Bob Herbert: The lost children.
Click. Vanessa Hua: Falun Gong dispute hangs over San Francisco Chinese parade.
Click. Alex Ross: Great Fugue. Secrets of a Beethoven manuscript.
Click. Andrew Orlowski: Cingular applies to patent smileys (emotions).
Click. Mark Hiltzik: Web's Fate may hinge on ISPs' neutrality.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Portugal: Snow, Wind, Rain, Thunder and Sub-Zero Temperatures Break Records.
Click. Larry O'Hanlon: Report raises possibility that snails fly.
Click. (Zaman) Bird flu detected in Northern Iraq.
Click. (New York Daily News) Playwright Wendy Wasserstein dies at 55.
Click. (Zaman) Nobel Winner Marquez quits writing.
Click. William Pesek, Jr. : In India-China race my money is on India.
Click. (Science Daily) There is accumulating evidence that certain viruses may cause obesity.
January 29, 2006
Click. (Newsweek) Palace revolt. They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror. And they paid a price for it
Click. (Baltimore Sun) Spy data system a "boondoggle". After 6 years and $1.2 billion, NSA still hasn't set up Trailblazer.
Click. Matthew Kalman: Hamas proving it's politically shrewd.
Click. Josh Meyer: CIA expands use of drones in terror war.
Click. Michael Cabbage: Lives, legacies saluted on Challenger anniversary.
Click. (London Times) A leaked secret document reveals that MI5 has discovered almost nothing about the worst terrorist attack against Britain despite months of investigation. More Groping in the dark.
Click. Simon Jenkins: By jingo, our brave boys are off to tame the Afghan. And they'll fail.
Click. Andrew C. Revkin: Climate expert claims NASA tried to silence him.
Click. Helen Thomas: Bush: "L'etat, C'est Moi".
Click. Robert Fisk: The problem with democracy.
Click. Carla Marinucci: Clinton tests West Coast waters. Senator visits S.F., gears up for possible run for presidency.
Click. Ingmar Lee: Beating around the Bush by the bourse.
Click. (BBC) Rice's tricky tour.
Click. Joe Cannon: For a dumb guy, W just made one smart move.
Click. (San Diego Tribune) San Diego officials free to destroy most files.
Click. Janet Hook, Richard Simon: Earmarking -- a win-win for lobbyists and politicians.
Click. Matier & Ross: Feinstein's $16.5 million view in Pacific Heights.
Click. Ellen Lee: The dynamic duo behind Pixar's big success. Lasseter and Catmull driving force behind studios' blockbusters.
Click. Gaye LeBaron: Pan Am Clipper's last flight, plane spotter Boonville legend.
Click. Guy Kovner: Entering "My Space".
Click. Ice roads.
Click. Mike Boehm, Lynne Heffley: Villa's Reopening a Low-Key Marvel: The Getty's remodeled antiquities museum is unveiled to about 1,100 admiring visitors.
Click. (Effect measure) Quick bird flu vaccine.
Click. (Effect Measure) Another suspected bird flu case in Iraq.
Click. A spy in your car - sort of.
January 28, 2006
Click. (Aljazeera) Israel to restrict Hamas movements from Gaza Strip to West Bank.
Click. Achcar on Hamas.
Click. Ken Silverstein: A small-town lobbyist and her big connection.
Click. Spencer S. Hsu: Post-Katrina promises unfulfilled.
Click. Henry Weinstein: Judge requests clemency for a killer he condemned.
Click. Leslie Berestein: The building where federal agents discovered a long and highly sophisticated cross-border drug tunnel this week has had a long history of short-term tenants.
Click. Will Shuck: "Dark side" not really so dark, says a reporter turned Capitol staffer.
Click. Nick Schou: How a strip-club love triangle landed an Orange County man in federal prison.
Click. Craig Jarvis: Navajo life, or just pale-faced lie?
Click. Marta Waller: New kit counts ovarian eggs.
Click. (Spychips.com) Verichip RFID implant hacked!
Click. Marta Waller: Follow the money to track flu pandemic.
Click. (BBC) US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum".
Click. (AP) US seized Iraqi rebels' wives as tactic.
Click. Richard Beeston: Hardliners' star rising thanks to Bush.
Click. (Rian) Russia proposes publication of Taliban list - Foreign Ministry.
Click. (Itar-Tass) Russia may maintain contacts with HAMAS representatives if this movement sticks to the line of political settlement.
Click. Louis Charbonneau: Germany's Merkel to shun Hamas on first Israel trip.
Click. (Itar-Taas) Iran: Russia’s proposal for setting up a uranium enrichment joint venture on the Russian soil does not meet in full Iran’s needs for nuclear energy.
Click. (Irna) Hamas making contacts with academics to form government.
Click. (Khaleej) Pincohet daughter to fly to Argentina after dropping US asylum bid.
Click. (New Zealand Herald) Male donors put conditions on sperm use.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Off with his head, Queen Oprah said.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Frey's Syndrome.
Click. (Daily Breeze) Photography in a post-9/11 world.
January 27, 2006
Click. (RawStory) Senator Clinton to support Alito filibuster.
Click. Juan Cole: How do you like your democracy now Mr. Bush?
Click. Dana Millbank: Trying to maintain control of the state in a state of confusion.
Click. Paul Krugman: Health care confidential.
Click. Marie Cocco: Because of GOP, threat of impeachment can’t check Bush’s power.
Click. Stephen Pizzo: Governing, just that simple.
Click. Doug Thompson: A clear and present danger to America.
Click. Mahmoud Habboush, Corky Siemaszko: Hamas' real power lurks in shadows.
Click. (Aljazeera) Hamas to talk "partnership".
Click. (MoscowNews) Bush backs Russian plan for Iran's uranium enrichment.
Click. (AKI) Hamas may opt for technocrat government.
Click. Paul Craig Roberts: The meddlesome Mr. Bolton: US orders Syria to do the impossible.
Click. Howard LaFranchi: Is democracy empowering Islamists?
Click. James Sterngold: Libby lawyers to seek new testimony from reporters. More could be asked how they learned of CIA agent's identity.
Click. Philip Shenon, Elisabeth Bumiller: Bush picks Abramoff prosecutor for federal judgeship. Democrats wonder about the timing of president's move.
Click. Bill Berkowitz: Remaking USAID for a permanent war on terror?
Click. Sara A. Carter: Mexican official: U.S. soldiers disguised themselves as Mexican military.
Click. Dale Mills: In what will be a world experiment in technical surveillance, police in the Australian city of Sydney will link every close circuit video camera with a live feed to police command.
Click. David Stringer: Princess Diana inquiry complex.
Click. A letter from prison (activist Diane Wilson, Code Pink).
Click. Jeffrey St. Clair: King of the Hill: Senator Ted Steven's empire of corruption.
Click. (AP) Pentagon document shows 'PSYOP' messages boomerang to US.
Click. Andrew Greeley: An outdated concept is sent to limbo.
Click. John Fauber: Scanner takes diagnosis to new dimensions.
Click. Bob Pool: Homeless drift in Hollywood's rising tide.
Click. Chris Anderson: The new Silicon Valley boom.
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Brenda Stardom: Swearing At Motorists.
Click. Jason Silverman: Sundance -- the good, the bad, the ugly.
Click. (Reuters) Quickie bird flu vaccine created.
Click. Steve Mitchell: Advances move stem cells closer to clinic.
January 26, 2006
Click. (Ynet) Official results: Landslide victory for Hamas.
Click. (Ynet) Netanyahu: "Hamastan" has been created before our eyes.
Click. (Haaretz) Rojoub: Fatah will not join Hamas-led government.
Click. (Haaretz) Bush urges Abbas to remain in office despite Hamas victory.
Click. Laura King: Hamas faces a new struggle.
Click. (Khaleej) Bush says no dealing with Hamas if it has armed wing.
Click. (BBC) Who are Hamas?
Click. (Baku Today) China backs plan to have Iran's uranium enriched in Russia.
Click. (IRNA) General: Russian military cooperation with Iran is in int'l framework.
Click. (Moscow News) President Putin suggests building global nuclear center in Russia.
Click. (Khaleej) Bush supports Russian compromise plan for Iran nuclear dispute.
Click. (Ireland online) Iran accuses Britain of role in plane crashes.
Click. Sydney H. Schanberg:
Unseen war in Iraq.
Click. (New York Times editorial) Senators in need of a spine.
Click. Margaret Carlson:
Party love blinds Republicans to ugly truths.
Click. Richard Halstead:
A Marin Superior Court inquiry into the
performance of former court executive officer John Montgomery will be made public, two judges pledged Wednesday.
Click. Melissa Millios:
No reform, no $1 million. Majority of teachers at Carson High
School feared Gates funds came with too many strings. They hope to implement changes on their own.
Click. Michael R. Blood:
As the Ambassador Hotel is demolished, LAUSD
struggles with plans for the room where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Click. Fred Carroll:
As oystering evolves, watermen ponder gloomy future.
Click. (Bloomberg) Pennsylvania fights US on building revolutionary war museum.
Click. Tim Reid: How US lost billions in Wild West gamble to rebuild Iraq.
Click. Lisa Hoffman: "Pain ray" weapon headed to Iraq?
Click. Pfc. Michael A. Molinaro: Warhorse team assists Iraqis securing border.
Click. (AP) Pinochet daughter asks US for asylum.
Click. (Santiago Times) Pincohet daughter's claim of innocence wearing thin.
Click. (Peninsula) Pakistan denies CIA infiltration.
Click. (Peninsula) Pashtuns in Qatar relieved that kin escape US raid in Pakistan.
Click. (Dawn) Interpol asked to arrest "Taliban funding link" in Dubai.
Click. (Reuters) No end in sight to Afghan's years of violence.
Click. Rep. Harold Ford: "Contrary to conventional wisdom, Afghanistan stands at a more difficult and precarious junction than does Iraq...."
Click. (BBC) The UK is expected to send 3,500 extra troops to Afghanistan.
Click. Ian Bruce: British Paras and SAS spearhead mission to combat Taliban.
Click. (Moscow News) Russia proposes mining Helium-3 on moon.
Click. Bob Herbert: A President who can do no right.
Click. Kimberly Hefling: Bush names choice for mine administrator.
Click. Dan Gearino: Fingerprint scans might be coming to your school in Iowa.
Click. Brenda Stardom: What The Hell Happened To Tribe?
Click. (Independent) Drawings reveal genius of Michelangelo.
Click. (Independent) Pair of unknown Caravaggios found in church.
Click. (Independent) Gaultier opts for a mish-mash from the Mediterranean.
Click. Leigh Dayton: Earth twin boots hopes of life.
January 25, 2006
Live C-span audio/video - Senate hearing on Alito.Click. Pamela Hess: Iran: To shove or nudge into compliance.
Click. Peter Grier: Distrust of NSA has roots in '70s.
Eavesdropping on hell.Click. Brad K. Berner: In Bin Laden's mind, and in the minds of likeminded fundamentalist jihadists, all the preconditions have been met for directly attacking the United States.
Click. (Arabic News) Saudi King in India after China,
Click. (San Diego Tribune) Texas state prosecutors have intensified their probe into whether a Poway-based defense contractor helped funnel money to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's political action committee.
Click. Michael Schuerman: Year of the dog as China anchors at 7 World Trade.
Click. Marshall Heyman: Sundance Schwag: Party promoters blast into town.
Click. (BigNews) 12 US service members killed in Iraq since Friday.
Maureen Dowd: Delusion and illusion worthy of Dickens. David Lightman: Katrina probe stifled.Click. (Khaleej) Iran backs Russian uranium enrichment plan, but warns against referral to United Nations.
Click. (ABC) US to extend military executions rules to Guantanamo Bay.
Click. Kim Singupta: Mental scars of Iraq conflict participants exposed.
Click. (Moscow News) Russia’s Prosecutor General’s office together with the U.S. law
enforcement bodies have stopped the activities of an international firm
suspected of trading in children, headquartered in Napa, California.
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Click. (AKI) Al Qaeda inspired group threatens Lebanon.
Click. (AP) Lawyers for admitted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui want to call a doctor who will testify he has a major mental disorder, likely schizophrenia, in their bid to save him from the death penalty.
Click. (New Zealand Herald) Proposals for regular checks on all children have been dismissed as "Big Brother" tactics by community groups.
Click. Brenda Stardom: "I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes".
Click. Richard Verrier, Dawn C. Chmielewski: Suddenly, John Lasseter is Walt Disney Co.'s $7.4-billion man.
Click. David Lazarus: Disney and Pixar: A deal bound to happen.
Click. (The Guardian) Secret life of Matisse wins Whitbread prize.
Click. (The Guardian) Fish found in acid pools is world's smallest vertebrat
January 24, 2006
Click. (Houston Chronicle) CHENEY'S OLD FIRM GETS CONTRACT FOR EMERGENCY DETENTION AND PROCESSING FACILITIES.
January 23, 2006
Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, News From the Front
Click. Adam Nagourney: Bush to go on offense on secret listening. White House tries to win support for wiretap program.
Click. A. L. Bardach: Ken Mehlman, the President's man.
Click. Mike Whitney: How Iran's oil exchange threatens the greenback.
Click. Doug Thompson: An American Hitler and his Gestapo.
Click. (Blooomberg) Conservative Stephen Harper may win Canada's general election as voters seek to punish Marin.
Click. (Reuters) The Bush administration on Monday defended the government's oversight of the Sago mine.
Click. Dawn C. Chmielewski: Walt's shoes at Disney could be a fit for Steve Jobs.
Click. (AP) Pinochet's wife and children arrested.
Click. Don Lee: China making big oil moves.
Click. By Lee Romney: A baffled city asks: Where is Jerry Tang? The San Francisco tech exec vanished.
Click. Kevin Howe: Money talks at language school. $362 million will help hire teachers, add languages to Defense Language Institute program, Monterey, CA.
Click. Terence Chea: It's forests vs. vineyards. Battle ferments in Sonoma County between pinot noir vintners and defenders of the redwoods.
Click. (The Guardian) New Bolivian leader sheds tears but talks tough.
Click. (The Independent) Guns or politics? Now Hamas must choose.
Click. Paul Krugman: Iraq's power vacuum.
Click. (Pakistan Tribune) Baluchistan: Yesterday and today.
Click. (Yahoo news) Muqtada al-Sadr says his Iraqi militia will defend Iran if it is attacked.
Click. (Khaleej Times) Chavez hosts World Social Forum as leftist movements unite against Bush.
Click. (Xinhua) Chinese, Saudi groups plan new oil company.
Click. (Adnki) Indonesia: Islamic school hits back with seminar on terrorism.
Click. (Adnki) Terrorism: New Al-qaeda strategy behind Bin Laden message.
Click. John Gibler: Who’s Listening? Undercover intelligence officers follow the Other Campaign.
Click. (Raw Story) Judge James H. Payne, a federal judge that President Bush nominated to the U.S. Circuit Court "apparently violated federal law repeatedly" by sitting on at least 18 cases involving corporations in which he owned stock.
Click. Support military police scapegoats website (re: Abu Ghraib)
Click. (AP) Coroner and attorney Cyril Wecht indicted in Pittsburgh.
Click. Robin McKee: Shuttle a deathtrap, says astronaut.
Click. Dalya Alberge: Authors' court fight threat to Da Vinci Code premiere.
Click. (AP) Last herd of caribou fighting for survival.
Click. Peter Hecht: Tribes and developers vie for a chance to roll the dice. As the state eyes Barstow to solve an Indian casino dispute, local politics and competing plans become factors in the struggling Mojave Desert city.
January 22, 2006
Click. Kristen Breitweiser: Know thine enemy. A primer for President Bush, et al.
Click. Dawn Wolfe Gutterman: Gay groups listed in government terrorism database. "Under existing procedures, a 'dot' of information that is not validated as threatening must be removed from the TALON system. If the 'dot' is validated, the information is moved to law enforcement entities."
Click. Michael Isikoff: The Other Big Brother. The Pentagon has its own domestic spying program. Even its leaders say the outfit may have gone too far.
Click. Layla Bohm: Judge refuses to dismiss case against Hayats. Two juries will hear Lodi terrorism trial.
Click. Robert Parry: With the fate of the U.S. Constitution in the balance, it’s hard to believe there’s no senator prepared to filibuster Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, whose theories on the “unitary executive” could spell the end of the American democratic Republic.
Click. Kathy M. Kristoff: Hazard for Boomers: Tax on social security.
Click. Xymphora: Jack Abramoff and the Syrian "Chalabi".
Click. Joe Conason: A tip for the cowardly press corps.
Click. Jim Spencer: Brutality in a US uniform. Sleeping-bag trick killed Iraqi general.
Click. Carlotta Gall, Mohammad Khan: Pakistan's push in border areas is said to falter.
Click. Ronald Brownstein: US energy policy ought to sent Iran a lasting message.
Click. (Bloomberg) Evo Morales takes office in Bolivia, pledging to control country's gas fields.
Click. (Bloomberg) President George W. Bush and lobbyist Abramoff appear together in five photos, Time Magazine says.
Click. (Bloomberg) Senator McCain says US can't be held hostage to Venezuelan "wackos".
Click. Noam N. Levey, Walter F. Roche Jr.: Congressman Bob Ney linked to Abramoff is no stranger to lobbyists.
Click. Joe Cannon: Osama Bin Laden, William Blum, and false quotation syndrome.
Click. (Pravda) The fly effect: Russian scientists invent new medicine with the help of flies.
Click. Carl T. Hall: Stem cell effort mired in legal bog, global scandal. With Prop. 71 funding on hold, California's lead role in doubt.
Click. Janine DeFao: Guerrilla gourmet. Guided by word-of-mouth, diners flock to unlicensed restaurants for excellent food in secret settings.
Click. Tom Shorrock: Why the buses didn't come. Bush-linked Florida company and the Katrina evacuation fiasco.
Click. (London Times) Zarqawi "sleeps in a suicide belt".
Click. (London Times) MI5 knew of London bomber's plan for holy war.
Click. Frank Rich: Truthiness 101: From Frey to Alito.
Click. Vladimer Papava, Frederick Starr: In the Caucasus, a "neo-imperial" Russian revival.
Click. Danielle Gusmaroli: For families who want to try to safeguard their baby's future, the latest thing is a £1,500 set of stem cells.
Click. Henry K. Lee: Livermore, California. Forensic tests confirm body as missing 15-year-old girl's. Police suspect foul play. Kayla Reed's remains found in remote Delta-Mendota canal.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Something's Fishy With Google's Stance Against Search Records.
Click. (The Guardian) It's cool, it's hip...it's er, British folk.
Click. (SMH.Com) Fast track to a fine vintage.
January 21, 2006
Click. Paul Richter: US goals adapt to new Iraq.
Click. Blaine Harden: 11 indicted on charges related to "eco-terrorism". Arson and sabotage alleged in California, other western states.
Click. (DEBKA) Did a novel type of “flying roadside bombs” down three US helicopters in Iraq?
Click. Wayne Madsen: Jack Abramoff's past as a South African spy.
Click. Jeffrey Steinberg: Cheney and Netanyahu pushing for war against Syria.
Click. (AP) CIA role a mystery at court-martial.
Click. (AP) Experts: "Decapitation" may not end terror.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Googling past the graveyard.
Click. Ryan Singel: How to foil search engine snoops.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Portuguese Parliament: Play 25% Portuguese Music on the Radio or PAY.
Click. Ansbert Kneip: Women of Saturn.
Click. Ben Baeder: What is the De Anza Trail and why should we care?
Click. Bill Ainsworth: "Double whammy" drug program turns California's projected savings to a loss.
Click. Tim Reiterman: McCloskey to take On Pombo: The ex-congressman and GOP maverick, who is 78, said he is battling for the party's soul.
Click. Harley Schlanger: Schwarzenegger's "State of the State": New script, same puppet.
Click. Chuck Philips and Andrew Blankstein: Judge child LA in rapper killing. Judge orders city to pay $1.1 million to the family of Notorious B.I.G. for withholding evidence on suspects.
Click. Peter Y. Hong: Burket divorce public. A recently enacted California law allowing the billionaire to have his records sealed is unconstitutional, the appellate panel rules.
Click. Thomas H. Maugh II: An Irish King rules gene pool.
January 20, 2006
Click. Robert Fisk: Osama Bin Laden. Is it him? Almost certainly.
Click. (The Independent) Up to 15 police officers may face charges over Menezes shooting.
Click. (Army News Service) Military academy key for Iraq.
Click. Nicholas Riccardi: Trial illuminates dark tactics of interrogation.
Click. Claude Salhani: Cheney's solution in sight?
Click. (Interfax) Remaining Iranian nuclear issues for the West to solve - Lavrov.
Click. (Jerusalem Post) IAF trained for Iran attack.
Click. Marty Lederman: What can be done about the NSA dispute?
Click. Russell Shaw: The government that can't find Osama is back on the net porn patrol.
Click. William C. Mann: US foreign aide machinery being reshaped.
Click. Richard Gott: Revolution in the Andes.
Click. (Metropolitan News-Enterprise) The Commission on Judicial Performance has slated a Feb. 6 hearing on whether to force the retirement of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rodney Nelson on grounds of “degenerative brain disease". Judge Nelson denies the charges.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Taylor Behl Murder: Finally, An Indictment.
Click. Rosa Brooks: Political footballs and constitutional law.
Click. David Nasen: Meth madness scars Dick Cheney's home town.
Click. Christina Jewett: Colleagues shocked at California Highway Patrol officer's suicide.
Click. Ramon Coronado: Hamlin jurors recall the stress. Deliberations in torture case included tears and a threat to walk out. (1/19/06)
Click. (London times) Priest who became a father takes flight, but "new Ireland" asks why?
Click. (London Times) Mountains of Mars were once covered with snow.
Click. (London Times) Ancient oak felled to make barrels for Chateau Latou.
Click. Stan Oklobdzija: Priest connects with Latino youth online.
January 19, 2006
Click. (Radio Free Europe) Ahmadinejad visits Syria, may sign defense pact.
Click. (Business Week) Feds seek Google records in porn probe.
Click. Howard Mintz: Google defies Feds.
Click. (CBS) Purported Bin Laden tape threatens US.
Click. Richard Norton-Taylor: Torture flights: what No 10 knew and tried to cover up.
Click. Lara Jakes Jordon: Just don't call it a national ID card. "One card would serve as a border pass, a driver's license and a security ID for entering federal buildings. It would include not just your name and picture, but your fingerprints and DNA."
Click. Michael Hiltzig: Medicare drug plan looks like a big scam.
Click. Steven Pizzo: The return of Bush's brownshirts.
Click. Harvey Wasserman: Are you ready to be bugged and tortured by George W. Bush?
Click. Carl T. Hall: Call for head of California stem cell institute to resign. Biotech watchdog says Prop. 71 agency needs a
fresh start.
Click. (Stockton Record) McCloskey to announce GOP challenger for Pombo's House seat.
Click. David Whitney: California Missions project clear hurdle.
Click. Jonathan Friedman: California Coastal Commission czar, an independent sort, has enemies, allies in equal measure.
Click. Sabin Russell: Statewide flu plan ready for public input. Worst case sees millions sick, 35,000 dead in California.
Click. Tim Tesconi: Sonoma County grape harvest likely sets a record.
Click. (ABC) 2 top al-Qaida operatives believed killed in Pakistan air attack.
Click. Michael T. Klare: The Iran war buildup.
Click. George Friedman: Iran's redefined strategy.
Click. Fatih Atik: Turkish political party raises issue of whether bird flu is a biological weapon.
Click. Fikret Ertan: Galileo, China and US.
Click. Denise Nix: In a move that some claim tramples their free speech rights, officials have banned a range of activities at and around Los Angeles Superior Court, from proselytizing to anti-red light camera activism.
Click. Robert Marquand: New struggle in China: Keep up with the Chans.
Click. (London Times) Prince Harry, 21, the third in line to the throne, will be the first senior Royal to go on frontline duty since the Duke of York, his uncle, flew helicopters in the Falklands War.
Click. (LeftCoaster) Speedin' back to George.
Click. Josh Grossberg: 37 years after it as stolen, this Corvette came back.
Click. Brenda Stardom: New Email Virus Has Sex Written All Over It.
January 18, 2006
Click. (AKI) Iran's central bank confirms capital exodus from Europe to Asia.
Click. (Balkanization) Justice O'Connor forged a compromise among the Justices in
Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of New Hampshire in what may be her last
opinion for the Court. Both pro-life and pro-choice sides win some and lose
some, but the
real winner in this decision is the federal courts.
Click. Jennifer Granick: Mass spying means mass errors.
Click. Tony Pugh: Medicare won't reimburse states for emergency drug costs.
Click. Arianna Huffington: Iraq -- Deconstructing the reconstruction.
Click. Alyce T. Burton: Army selects unit to test Future Combat Systems program.
Click. Sam Smith: The real chocolate city.
Click. (AP) FBI missed internal signs of spying.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Looking for a tough guy or girl.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Airwave Pirates Hijack Howard Stern.
Click. Greg Lucas: California GOP puts strings on support for bonds. Lawmakers want environmental review eased, ended.
Click. (AP) Santa Cruz looks to raise minimum raise to $9.25 per hour.
Click. Paul Campos: The nasty violence inherent in children.
Click. Stuart Silverstein, Peter Y. Hong: UCLA Alumni go after "radical" faculty.
Click. Roger Phelps: Bomb plotters eyed Camino research facility.
Click. Delthia Ricks: Aspirin study reveals a sharp gender divide.
Click. Sam Enriquez: "Tomato King" has a few hurled at him.
Click. (BBC) Japan's new breed of "get rich quick" technology tycoons.
January 17, 2006
Click. (Khaleej) Iran vows reprisals if referred to Security Council.
Click. (Khaleej) Russia, China want talks not sanctions on Iran.
Click. Financial Times) Britain dismisses Iranian calls for fresh nuclear talks.
Click. (Bloomberg) US Supreme Court upholds Oregon assisted-suicide law. Roberts dissents.
Click. Andrew Osborne: Merkel adopts hardliner approach to Russia.
Click. (Pakistan Daily Times) Missile attack is a warning from the CIA.
Click. Why Zawahiri didn't show up for dinner.
Click. (Pakistan Daily times) US knew all about Khan network. More extracts
Click. Nathan R. Helms: Army orders soldiers to shed dragon skin or lose SGLI death benefits.
Click. (Bloomberg) Google to buy radio advertising firm DMarc for $1.24 billion.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Sleeping Sickness.
Click. Lester Haines: Google earth -- the photo interpretation challenge.
Click. Mark Fitzgerald: With FOIA requests, one reporter's tenacity pays off.
Click. Stuart Silverstein: As college professors post lectures
online, they're seeing a rise in absenteeism. A low-tech response
to no-shows: more surprise quizzes.
Click. (EffectMeasure) Background science for the Turkish mutations (1).
January 16, 2006
Click. Stanford University inaugurated the newly expanded Martin Luther King Institute on January 13, 2006. The Institute will preserve and protect the papers of the influential civil rights and religious leader.
Click. Karen Kwiatkowski: American foreign policy, part deux.
Click. Tariq Ali: Iraq's destiny still rests between God, blood and oil.
Click. Bob Herbert: Judicial gag rule.
Click. Text of Al Gore's speech, January 16, 2006 - "No man is above the law".
Click. Francis Elliott: MI5 will get new powers to bug MPs.
Click. Paul Krugman: First, do more harm.
Click. Robert Parry: Bush and the limits of debate.
Click. Jay Bookman: IRS abuses offer insight into dangers of wiretap program.
Click. Brenda Stardom: My Dark Places.
Click. (AP) Mexico's comparison of border fence to Berlin Wall draws US ire.
Click. Melinda Pillsbury-Foster: The NeoCon fantasy becomes reality: Alito and his clones are coming, coming, coming...
Click. (New York Times editorial) The imperial Presidency at work.
Click. Randy Lee Loftis: Sinister global trade may have link to Richardson. Exclusive: Accountant in federal inquiry denies helping sell weapons to thugs worldwide.
Click. (AP) Maine elderly ride program flourishes.
January 15, 2005
Click. Jason Burke, Imtiaz Gul: The drone, the CIA and a botched attempt to kill bin Laden's deputy.
Click. Frank Rich: Is Abramoff the new Monica?
Click. John Johnson Jr.: Shining a light on a dark planet -- Pluto.
Click. (The Economist) The future of mind control.
Click. RIP: Shelley Winters.
Click. Marilynn Marchione: Trauma pills could make memories less painful.
Click. Gabriel Molina: Humbug in Hamburg. (re: JFK assassination)
Click. Michael Stetz: Dogs don't belong in purses, Chihuahua lovers say.
January 14, 2005
Click. (ABC) Pakistan condemns purported CIA air attack.
Click. Sandro Contenta: Will Iran have the upper hand?
Click. Ramon Coronado: No retrial in Hamlin case.
Click. Jack Leonard, Robin Fields: Task force to analyze California guardian system.
Click. Jason Dearan: Susan Polk's new attorney request in limbo.
Click. Philip Weiss: A Guy Named Craig. How a schlumpy IBM refugee found you your apartment, your boyfriend, your new couch, your afternoon sex partner—and now finds himself killing your newspaper.
Click. Michael Martinez: American Indians protest their ousting from tribes.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Oprah How could ya?
Click. A Protest, A spy program and a campus in uproar.
Click. Lesbian and Gay life at Yale. 1642 to 2004.
January 13, 2005
Click. (Bloomberg) Russia would let Iran dispute go to UN Security Council; China is opposed.
Click. (IRNA) Iran to stop voluntary measures if its dossier referred to other international bodies.
Click. Doug Thompson: Bush could seize absolute control of US government.
Click. Jason Leopold: Bush authorized domestic spying before 9/11.
Click. Roxana Hegeman: USDA using satellites to spy on farmers in fraud cases.
Click. Kelly Hearn: Venezuela proposes "Bank of the South".
Click. Gina Holland: Supreme Court to review domestic abuse claim.
Click. John W. Dean: The Problem with Presidential signing statements.
Click. Wayne Madsen: New Orleans. What the media is not reporting and what Congress and the Bush administration are ignoring.
Click. Catherine MacLeod: Straw under fire for refusing CIA flights inquiry.
Click. Sara Vilkomerson: Beauties, beasts, biz.
Click. Malcolm Ritter: Millions of Jews descended from 4 women, study says.
Click. (Effect measure) More on the bird flu virus sequences from Turkey.
January 11, 2006
Click. (ABC) US, EU want Security Council to deal with Iran.
Click. (Bangkok Post) Iran warns against EU threats.
Click. Praful Bidwai: Red lines in the Iranian sand.
Click. Robert Parry: Alito and the Ken Lay factor.
Click. Ward Harkavy: Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal solidify power at World Bank, Pentagon.
Click. Sara A. Carter: M-13 gang called terrorist threat.
Click. Jeffrey Steinberg: Judge Samuel Alito and The "Führerprinzip".
Click. Brenda Stardom: UK's Proposed Beyond Orwellian Big Brother.
Click. (Sydney Morning Herald) Europe's search for Google alternative.
Click. Molly Ivins: Bush makes government incompetence a reality.
Click. Margaret Carlson: Fear of Borking lets Alito coast on bromides.
Click. Robert Salladay: Potential contributors will get private access to Schwarzenegger's most trusted policy advisor.
Click. Tim Johnson: China refuses to abolish bear farms despite international pressure.
Click. AMERICAblog just bought General Wesley Clark's cell phone records for $89.95.
Click. Miguel Bustillo: A will-to-build deadline imposed in New Orleans.
Click. Alexandra Zavis: Researcher says answer to ancient mystery shows man's ancestors were hunted by birds.
Click. (University at Buffalo) 15% of US employees work under influence of alcohol.
January 9, 2005
Click. Jorge Hirsch: How to stop the planned nuking of Iran. Congress should enact emergency legislation.
Click. Suna Erdem: Attempts to halt bird flu fail as virus heads west.
Click. Bob Herbert: The Nixon syndrome.
Click. Chris Hogg: Chinese oil giant eyes Nigeria.
Click. 20 amazing facts about voting in the USA.
Click. John Harlow, Dan Box: Teenage girls so, like, rule English.
January 8, 2006
Click. Morton H. Halperin: Obeying the law.
Click. (Juan Cole) 17 US troops killed in Iraq: Baghdad fuel blockade and possibility of "all out civil war;" US troops storm Sunni Mosque.
Click. Philip Sherwell: US pushes for crisis vote on Iran's nuclear program.
Click. (Haaretz) Syria's Assad flies to Saudi Arabia for talks on Lebanon.
Click. Daniel Cooney: Karzai invites contact with Taliban head.
Click. Frank Rich: The wiretappers that couldn't shoot straight.
Click. (AP) Merkel says Guantanamo prison can't exist indefinitely.
Click. Mark Brown: "Kind of fearless" Iraq vet enlists for political fight.
Click. Mary Mitchell: Mine mix-up latest example of careless reporting on poor.
Click. Miriam Pawel: Farmworkers reap little as United Farm Worker's Union strays from its roots.
Click. Héctor Tobar: Guns flow easily into Mexico from the US.
Click. (Effect Measure) The bubbling Turkish cauldron.
Click. Craig S. Smith: Nearly 100, LSD's father ponders its problem child.
Click. Sue Wilson: Does the Celtic heart still beat?
January 7, 2006
Click. (Reuters) DeLay relinquishes House majority leader post.
Click. (Forbes) Reaction to DeLay announcement.
Click. Ryan Lenz: US troops build wall of sand in Iraq.
Click. Robert Fisk: Ariel Sharon....
Click. Karen Kwiatkowski: He-said, he-said and a 2006 prediction.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Reach out and touch no one.
Click. (Daily Kos thread) Why not just dissolve the Senate?
Click. Joe Cannon: Conspiracy theories.
Click. Salah Nasrawi: Pilgrims mix faith, business at Saudi Hajj.
Click. (Effect Measure) Turkey (bird flu) at this point.
Click. (Spain Herald) Evo Morales: Prisa corporation "like my campaign manager".
Click. Tony Perry: 5 indicted over San Diego pension scheme.
Click. David Ryan: Napa adoption firm closes under fire.
Click. Fred Alvarez: A horse, of course, but Ragtime will be missed.
Click. (CNN) Earliest Mayan writing found beneath pyramid.
January 6, 2006
Click. (Blomberg) US Congressional report questions legal basis for domestic wiretapping.
Click. (Bloomberg) Hastert urged by House Republicans to take stand on replacing leader DeLay.
Click. Timothy J. Burger: Disgraced Congressman Duke Cunningham wore a "wire".
Click. Richard B. Schmitt, Janet Hook: Scandal may upset rules of enrichment in Congress.
Click. (Bloomberg) "DeLay Inc." lobbying firm has links to three capital scandals.
Click. Ann Woolner: Alito, even-handed scholar or right-wing radical?
Click. Jane Smiley: A ten step program.
Click. Dan Vasquez (former San Quentin warden): Why Clarence Ray Allen's life should be spared.
Click.
Kimberly Wear: Arcata, California calls for Bush impeachment.
Click. Kate Folmar:
Governor Schwarzenegger proposes building campaign.
Click. Sean Webby: At what age is it safe to leave your child alone?
Click. John Blossom: CES titans: Yahoo, Google go toe to toe with seamless desktops, video and DRM.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Portugal's Downward Spiral.
Click. Frank Main: Your cell phone records are for sale.
Click. Nicholas Wade: DNA offers new insight concerning cat evolution.
Click. Ian Johnson: Welcome to Mars express -- only a three hour trip.
Click. Carl Nolte: Jack London's lens on 1906 San Francisco quake. Author's photos, never seen by public, get centennial show.
January 5, 2005
Click. Bill Gertz: NSA whistleblower asks to testify.
Click. Jason Leopold: NSA destroyed evidence of domestic spying.
Click. Gary Hart: End the evasion on permanent US bases in Iraq.
Click. Haninah Levine: A Manhattan project on IEDs.
Click. Molly Ivins: Six degrees of Osama bin Laden.
Click. Michel Chossudovsky:
Nuclear war against Iran.
Click. Briggs Nisbet: Habeas Corpus suspended in the District of Colombia.
Click. (Yahoo) Secret graves found on Colonia Dignidad grounds.
Click. Katherine M. Skiba: Feingold tests the waters but will he jump in?
Click. Margaret Carlson: Abramoff fed Washington's outstretched
hands.
Click. Shane Goldmacher: California Democrats prepare for potentially bloody primary battle.
Click. Locks (as we know them) are obolete.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Les Angles Morts: Synth-driven Psycho-spazz.
Click. Jane Smiley: Try this.
Click. (USDA) Tomato trek yields Chilean treasure.
Click. (Brandeis) Psychotropic drug prescriptions for teens surge 250% over 7-year period.
January 4, 2005
Click. (Debka) Israel must learn to live without Ariel Sharon – at least for a while.
Click. Josh Meyer: CIA gave Iran bomb plans, book says.
Click. (Interview by Andrea Mitchell) Reporter defends release of NSA spy program. James Risen says his sources are ‘patriots,’ CIA calls them ‘"unreliable".
Click. (AmericanChronicle.com) Lawmakers say Congress has abdicated its oversight responsibilities on worker safety issues, while Bush administration has filled worker safety agencies with industry insiders.
Click. James P. Miller: Sago mine a part of financially lucrative commodities play.
Click. Patricia Zengerle: Mine where 12 died in NY money man's portfolio.
Click. Virginia Citrano: Mine deaths may bring scrutiny of Ross' International Coal.
Click. (Daily Kos) Bush's recess appointments.
Click. Carla Marinucci: White House aide to run governor's campaign. Republican handles relations with press for vice president.
Click. (AP) Miniature cattle breed interest.
Click. (Bloomberg) Bush says US to reduce troops in Iraq by "several thousand" next year.
click. (The Guardian) Ian Cobain, Ian Traynor: Secret services say Iran is trying to assemble a nuclear missile. Document seen by Guardian details web of front companies and middlemen.
Click. (The Guardian) Ian Cobain, Ian Traynor: Intelligence report claims nuclear market thriving.
Click. Patrick J. Buchanan: Time to talk to Tehran.
Click. Simon Jenkins: The extraordinary folly of Britain's new opium war.
Click. (The Guardian) Putin's momentous move.
Click. Richard Irving: Nearly $3 billion worth of bonds bearing the Republic of Iraq's name are to begin trading in London.
Click. Maureen Dowd: It's not personal, Jack, it's strictly business.
Click. Christopher Deliso: Stacking the deck to save the administration.
Click. Charlie Pratt: Bush could bypass new torture ban -- waiver right reserved.
Click. Bloomberg) Ukraine agreed to almost double the price it pays Russia for gas, settling a dispute with Russia.
Click. (Blomberg) Iraq insurgents kill more than 40 in worst violence since parliament vote.
Click. Alok Jha: Out of this world. NASA funds revolutionary ideas.
January 3, 2005
Click. (AP) Abramoff pleads guilty, will cooperate.
Click. Gwen Florio: Abramoff scandal irks Montana Indians.
Click. (Left Coast) Details of Abramoff guilty plea.
Click. Excerpt re: the NSA program from: State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration by James Risen.
Click. Romesh Ratnesar: The book behind the bombshell.
Click. ShaneHarrisand Tim Naftali: Tinker, Tailor, Miner, Spy. Why the NSA's snooping is unprecedented in scale and scope.
Click. Katherine Shrader: Intelligence panel had clue about spying.
Click. Greg Mitchell: Newspapers urge President to quit.
Click. William Rees-Mogg: A new cold war.
Click. (ArabicNews.com) Syria rejects UN investigation committee's meeting President al-Assad.
Click. (AP) Japanese troops head to US to conduct joint war games.
Click. (VHeadline.com) US Defense budget funded 57% of Latin Americans inpost-9/11 terror training.
Click. (Xinhuanet.com) Beijing to build 11 satellite cities.
Click. (Sacramento Bee) Governor Schwarzenegger in the jet-lease business. Key issue is whether it's a tax shelter; IRS is now looking at similar deals.
Click. (Napa Valley Register) Governor Schwarzenegger visited flood-ravaged, promising government relief, but dodging questions about state-delayed funding for the area’s unfinished flood control project.
Click. Michelle Locke: Storms doesn't ruin Napa grapes. Vintners must clean up mess, but vines "are pretty resilient".
Click. Edwin Garcia: Governor Schwarzenegger urges the federal government to modify laws so Americans could safely import affordable prescription drugs from Canada and other countries.
Click. Rong-Gong Lin II: California stem cell programs surge ahead even though Prop. 71 funds are tied up in court.
Click. Matthew Rothschild: History professor's mail opened by Homeland Security.
Click. Doug Ireland: Bush's war on porn targets Hollywood, the Internet, and the First Amendment in 2006.
Click. Rhonda Cook: Experiences with death define federal judge's life, work.
Click. Karen Auge: Transplant gives freedom to diabetics.
Click. La Jolla Institute) Potential bird flu treatment studied in new cutting-edge research.
Click. (Duke University) Unified physics theory explains animals’ running, flying and swimming.
Click. (AP) Test to determine if skull is Mozart's.
Click. Sue Lindsey: Archaeologist pursued Jamestown curiosity.
Click. Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien.
January 2, 2006
MILITARY TIMES - ANNUAL YEAR-END POLLS AND SURVEYS:
Click. TROOPS SOUND OFF: Support for President Bush and for the war in Iraq has slipped significantly in the last year among members of the military’s professional core, according to the 2005 Military Times Poll.
Click. DISCONNECT CITED BETWEEN TROOPS, CIVILIAN LEADERSHIP. From Congress to the White House to the Pentagon, the career-oriented heart of the military appears increasingly estranged from its leaders in Washington, according to results of the 2005 Military Times Poll.
Click. "MISSION" A FACTOR IN GENERALLY HIGH MORALE. Four years of combat have done little to dent the morale of the professional military, results of the 2005 Military Times Poll show.
POLL RESULTS: Morale + Iraq, Afghanistan and President Bush + Military, Race and Religion + Politics, Civilians and Policy Source: MilitaryCity.com
Click. (New Zealand Herald) Gaza's slow descent into self-destructive anarchy.
Click. (Khaleej Times) Assad "will not meet with UN Hariri commission".
Click. (Army Times) US. and Iraqi troops operating in Baghdad are finding nearly twice the number of weapons caches they did months ago, a senior commander said.
Click. (MosNews.com) Iran rejects Russia's nuclear plan.
Click. (Reuters) Chastised Russia all but abandons gas blockade.
Click. Jeffrey Steinberg: Cheney and his patsy, Bush, face impeachment furor.
Click. Gary Leupp: Reorganizing Rumsfeld's inner circle: Devaluating the military while preparing for more war.
Click. (Capitol Hill Blue) CIA operative says Bush, military leaders let bin Laden escape.
Click. Marty Lederman: So much for the President's assent to the McCain amendment.
Click. Jane Smiley: Who's in charge here?
Click. Bob Herbert: The machete budget.
Click. Robert Fisk: War without end.
Click. Paul Craig Roberts: A Gestapo administration.
Click. Robert Krugman: Housing bubble trouble.
Click. (AP) US military "shuts down" soldiers' blogs.
Click. (AP) Iraq Oil Minister resigns amidst protests.
Click. (AP) Risen's new book reveals secret war operations.
Click. (AP) US Air Force's role changing in Iraq.
Click. (AP) US military hospital plays key Iraq role.
Click. (AP) Commanders says terror at bay in East Africa.
Click. Tonya Alenez: Unanswered questions remain as Fort Lauderdale teen returns from Iraq.
Click. (VHeadline) Bolivia's President-elect Evo Morales on flying visit to Venezuela, Tuesday.
Click. Joe Grim Feinberg: The Bolivarian revolution.
Click. Carla Rivera and Jeffrey L. Rabin: California Medi-Cal cut threatens poor, disabled.
Click. Joanne Morrison: Scientists grow stem-cell lines without animal cells
Click. Brenda Stardom: WMF Vulnerability Affecting Hundreds of Millions Computers
Click. Teresa Mendez: Ling-ling's lunch is the new trend in furniture.
Click. Clancy Sigal: Breaking down with Dr. Laing.
Click. Rob Stein: Stomach bug mutates into medical nightmare.
January 1, 2006
Click. Evan Thomas, Daniel Klaidman: Full speed ahead. Behind the NSA spying furor.
Click. Steve Benen: Resistance at Justice Department to warrantless searches.
Click. Walter Pincus: Wiretap info went to other agencies. NSA typically shares surveillance data, officials say.
Click. Andrew Sullivan: Nixon's revenge. The return of the wiretappers.
Click. (Bloomberg) Bush defends spy agency's eavesdropping as "vital" to war on terrorism.
Click. David Swanson: What fate awaits NSA spying whistleblower?
Click. Simon Jenkins: Leave the field now -- the Iraqi endgame is about to begin.
Click. E. R. Shipp: Bush is running off the rails.
Click. Juan Cole: 10 amazing predictions for 2006.
Click. (AP) Syria's ruling party dismisses former Vice President.
Click. (Bloomberg) Russia's Gazprom shuts off natural gas supply to Ukraine in price dispute.
Click. (Agonist) Gazprom, Ukraine, Russia and Europe.
Click. (AP) Zapatistas leave jungle for tour of Mexico.
Click. (Bloomberg) Bird flu virus may be more active in Eastern Europe
Click. William Pesek Jr.:
US's rival in 2006 isn't China, but Japan. "If you think the Bush administration does
a poor job sizing up politics overseas, check out its flawed intelligence on the global economy."
Click. Lisa Pease: Freeport McMoran's corruption of Indonesia.
Click. (Seattle Times) Sweeping change reshapes Artic.
Click. Dan Levy:
Harnessing the tiger in China. Hong Kong developer behind billion-dollar deal for Bank of America Center seeks
more territory to conquer.
Click. Edie Lau:
Assessing consent in dementia research.
Click. Kevin Sullivan: England preserves its long-vacant churches.
December 31, 2005
Click. (Seattle Times) Who told secrets on domestic spying? Probe to aim high.
Click. Josh Meyer: Leak in domestic spy program investigated. The Justice Department inquiry could extend into all branches of the federal government.
Click. Kenneth R. Timmerman: Is Iran's Ahmadinejad a messianic medium?
Click. (Arabicnews.com) US should "seek resolution" with Iraq over $1.4 billion Kellogg, Brown and Root contract.
Click. Craig Murray won't be silenced....
Click. Bob Fitrakis: Fake voting rights activists and groups linked to White House.
Click. James Petras: Israel and the Neocons, the Libby affair and the internal war.
Click. Kate Folmar:
Governor Schwarzenegger to seek minimum wage hike.
Click. (Vheadline.com) 2005 -- Another terrible year for United States-Latin American relations.
Click. Peter Montague:
A darker bioweapons future.
Click. Cod liver oil winning new converts.
December 30, 2005
Click. Paul Krugman: Heck of a job, Bushie.
Click. (Spiegel) Is Washington planning a military strike?
Click. (BigNews) Seven US soldiers killed in Iraq, 2 in Afghanistan.
Click. Melinda Pillsbury-Foster: Rove and Bush will not depart gracefully.
Click. (Reuters) Chalabi takes over Iraq oil ministry amid "crisis".
Click. (Bloomberg) US Justice Department probing leak of existence of US eavesdropping program.
Click. Tracy Wilkinson: Italy's pursuit of CIA operatives stalls.
Click. Jeffrey Fleishman: Russia wields its new arsenal -- fuel.
Click. (Zamen.com) Kurds threaten lands in Kirkuk.
Click. (Vheadline.com) Central Bank of Venezuela approves currency transactions in uros.
Click. (Brooksbulletin.com) Canadian army still relying on local hires in dangerous hotspots in Afghanistan.
Click. Peter G. Gosselin: How bedrock promises of pensions security have fractured across America.
Click. John W. Dean: George W. Bush as the new Richard M. Nixon. Both wiretapped illegally, and impeachably.
Click. Juan Cole: The Middle East and America in 2005: How the region has changed.
Click. Don Thompson: California teen's prison suicide blamed on lax oversight.
Click.
Brenda Stardom: Rediscovering Lene Lovich.
Click. Truong Phuoc Khanh: Night club scenes with a special racial twist. Asian-Americans gather to form friendships, business ties in San Jose, California.
Click. "One of the main aims of the WikiTree Project is to provide a central place on the Internet for kin information about all people we know ever lived, automatically construct bloodline trees, and watch the gradual emergence of global family forest of humanity."
December 29, 2005
Click. Tom Lasseter: Kurds quietly ready for civil war.
Click. Borzou Daragahi, Louise Roug: Iraq's history still divides children of Mesopotamia.
Click. Ryan Lenz: Embedded with the 101st Airborne.
Click. (DailyKos) British torture memos leaked, published online.
Click. Jim Lobe: Anti-imperialists beware -- Bush is reading again.
Click. Molly Ivins: Big Brother Bush.
Click. Margaret Carlson: "Six Degrees of Abramoff" snares a boy scout.
Click. (WCAX TV) Leahy wants to know about Pentagon spying on protests.
Click. Anick Jesdanun: Digital maps going beyond roads.
Click. (Cryptome) British and Greek spies and torturers named.
Click. Jon Van: Phone giants mum on spying.
Click. (BBC) Former Nazi Paul Schaefer and German woman charged with child abuse at Colonia Dignidad, Chile.
Click. (AP) Chiefs demoted in Pentagon succession line.
Click. Alan Bisbort: It has happened here. The growth of executive power in this country has some disturbing precedents.
Click. Stephen Soldz: The sex lives and sexual frustrations of US troops in Iraq.
Click. Jack M. Balkin: Judge Alito and executive power.
Click. David R. Baker, Zachary Coile: State gets $6.3 billion in energy firm settlements. California officials say feds should have done more to curb companies' abuses.
Click. (BBC) Huge new oil discovery in Brazil.
Click. Verne Kopytoff: Google team sets sights on big screen. Entertainment-savvy co-founders invest in Stanford friend's independent film, shot in San Francisco.
Click. (Effect Measure) Charlie the Tuna and states' rights.
Click. Bob Egelko: Pacific Bell bias verdict upheld. Company denied job to ex-mental patient.
Click. Froma Harrop: The disappearing family dinner.
Click. Larry Eifert: A flurry of snow birds migrate to a wintry wonderland of abundant seafood.
Click. (Political Gateway) Mother nature gives premier US wine region stellar year for grapes.
December 28, 2005
Click. Jorge Hirsch: Nuking Iran with the UN's OK.
Click. (Khaleej) Iran sounds positive note on Russian atomic plan.
Click. James Gordon Meek: Rumsfeld's day targeted.
Click. Alice Miles: Where have we got to in the fight against terrorism? We're lost in a fog.
Click. (AP) Lawyers question surveillance evidence in terror case.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Vice axes that 70's show.
Click. Cesar Uco: Latin American mercenaries guarding Baghdad’s Green Zone.
Click. (Bignewsnetwork) White House wants Sahara desert as new front for war on terror.
Click. Andrew Ferguson: The "Godfather" refuses to play in the US Senate.
Click. Raekha Prasad: India builds a 2,500-mile barrier to rival the Great Wall of China.
Click. (UPI) Cell phones trip up CIA rendition team.
Click. Wieland Wagner: Koizumi's obsession with the past makes for an uncertain future.
Click. (Vheadline.com) Venezuela can export Iranian tractors to countries in Latin America
Click. (Spiegel) Galileo launch. First step toward a European GPS competitor.
Click. (Moscow.com) Parliamentary probe says Russian officials handled Beslan crisis poorly.
Click. Grace Rauh: Protest threatened at soldier's funeral. Anti-gay church plans another demonstration in Fremont.
Click. Mary Maxwell: Scandals - Six "conspiratorial" and six not.
Click. Ralph Frammolino, Jason Felch: Murky world of antiquities trade.
Click. Cam Simpson: Pentagon stalls on banning contractors from using forced labor.
Click. Brenda Stardom: RIAA Bares Fangs At Russia.
Click. Thomas Goetz: The battle to stop bird flu. Inside the Los Alamos weapons lab, massive computer simulations are unleashing disease and tracking its course, 6 billion people at a time.
Click. Jeremy Laurance: Revealed -- the pill that prevents cancer. A daily dose of vitamin D could cut the risk of cancers of the breast, colon and ovary by up to a half, a 40-year review of research has found.
Click. (Vheadline.com) The giant condor no longer soars over the Venezuelan Andes mountains
Click. The 10 best Harrison Ford lines.
December 27, 2005
Click. Juan Cole: Top 10 myths about Iran in 2005.
Click. Doug Thompson: NSA just one of many federal agencies spying on Americans.
Click. Terry Jones: Comedy of terror.
Click. John Stanton: Spying on the US security state. Countermeasures for US citizens.
Click. Richard Garner: German history syllabus "doesn't mention the war".
Click. Roger Boyes: Triumph of the will to face Nazi era.
Click. Lou Kilzer: Buckley "golf balls" may be ears for Bush spying.
Click. Sean Holstege: Spying pattern a legacy of 9/11. California state senator wants to close legal loophole so Guard can't be used for domestic spying.
Click. Peter S. Canellos: Bush's counsel on spying now under close scrutiny.
Click. (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan legisladores after Bush
Click. Greg Lucas: Rep. Doolittle awaits fallout in lobbyist case. GOP stalwart's links to Jack Abramoff drawing scrutiny.
Click. Robert E. Kessler: Lobbyist's friend says he was a willing partner in venture.
Click. Susan Antilla: Buy a lap dance at a strip club, cut your taxes.
Click. Shankar Vedantam: A Political Debate on veterans with post traumatic stress disorder.
Click. George Jones: British police state extends to children.
Click. Robin Fields, Jack Leonard, Evelyn Larrubia: California could turns elsewhere for conservatorship remedies.
Click. Evan Halper: California's tobacco revenue surges. (High tech collection practices)
Click. Cynthia H. Cho: "No Contact" a touchy issue at California middle school.
Click. Gray Brechin: Keeping the faith.
Click.
Brenda Stardom: Richard Ashcroft Holds The Keys To The World.
Click. Anna Abbott:
Winery weddings still limited in Napa Valley.
Click. (Rigorous intuition) Down the Scole Hole.
Click. Kaleem Omar: Whatever happened to April Glaspie?
Click. Doug Ireland: Chinese gays -- the dark before the dawn.
Click. Ian Johnston: Dying can aid stem cell research.
Click. Matthew Bunk: Oakland firm gives stroke victims hope.
December 26, 2005
Click. Paul Krugman: Medicine - who decides?
Click. FISA and NSA: Coleen Rowley sounds off.
Click. Lisa Pease: History repeats with the spy scandals.
Click. Ronald Brownstein: Hillary Clinton's got the ball, but others line up for a shot.
Click. M. J. Akbar: The Bush fade.
Click. Jordan Rau: Rough terrain for Governor Schwarzenegger in 2006.
Click. Sarah Kellogg: Tribes under increasing pressure in casino lobbying scandal.
Click. Nancy Isle Nation: Marin County Judge Boren considers change after a long career in criminal law.
Click. John Marzulli: New head of major Mafia Gambino family said to be `Jackie Nose' D'Amico.
Click. (Prensa Latina) President Lagos to Bachelet rescue.
Click. John Solomon: Doctor makes candid comments on HIV vaccine.
Click. (Xinhua.net) China develops 1st live vaccine against bird flu.
Click. Andy Mukherjee: China and India to face daunting risks in 2006.
Click. David Morrill: Biotech big shots court tiny Abgenix.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Shadow-Boxing Day.
December 25, 2005
Click. Josh Meyer, Joseph Menn: US spying is much wider, some suspect.
Click. Declan McCullagh: Just how extensive is NSA's spy program?
Click. Carol Rosenberg: Congress may prevail on war power.
Click. T. Christian Miller: US missteps leave Iraqis in the dark.
Click. Steve Chapman: Beyond the imperial presidency.
Click. Nicholas Riccardi: Colorado Springs has eye out for dirty bomb.
Click. Helen Thomas: Bush causes whiplash by saying bad intel made good decision. If war was right, for who?
Click. Joe Baigent: The simulacrum republic.
Click. Letter from a military mom -- domestic spying and incident of intimidation of military families.
Click. Kurt Eichenwald: Boy joins a sordid online world through his webcam.
Click. Juan Cole:
Iraqi Christians in peril this Christmas.
Click. Frank Rich:
I saw Jackie Mason kissing Santa Claus.
Click. Gaye LeBaron:
Christmas memories poignant and hilarious.
Click. Peter Nicholas, Robert Salladay:
Maria Shriver recasts "First Lady" as a powerful role in California.
Click. Lou Hirsh:
Producers eager to make Coachella Valley more than a location shoot.
Click. Tim Reiterman:
Deer and foxes compete for an island kingdom.
Click. Amy Oakes:
Christmas on the beach means fun for campers.
Click. John Weeks:
Tidings of comfort and joy.
Click. Lenore Skenazy:
4 calling birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtle
doves....
Click. Mack White:
Bison's Bill's Weird West Show.
December 24, 2005
Click. (WorldNetDaily) The anti-American President.
Click. Sydney Blumenthal: Bush's surveillance network.
Click. Eric Lichtblau and James Risen: Spy agency mined vast data trove, officials report.
Click. Richard J. Dalton, Jr.: Cyber-spying gets complicated.
Click. Glen Greenwald: Unclaimed territory. Do Bush defenders place any limits on his "wartime" power.
Click. Ellen Goodman: Bush's false choices.
Click. Brenda Stardom: A Morning With The Pogues.
Click. (AP) Moscow offers to move Iranian nuclear enrichment.
Click. John Solomon: NIH medical safety officer reinstated.
Click. Richard A. Serrano, Judy Pasternak: FBI follow money in tribe's beltway success.
Click. Keay Davidson:
Contractor faulted for accidents at the Livermore National laboratory. U.S. blames workers'
contamination on sloppy procedures.
Click. Paul Rieckhoff:
Christmas in Iraq. Troops share their stories.
Click. Randy Furst:
A group of American Indians is taking part in a weekend horseback
ride to honor the memory of 38 Indians hanged in Mankato in 1862.
Click. Rebecca Trounson:
Mark Twain scholar says women had key influence on life, work.
Click. Herb Caen:
The Sacamenna kid's Christmas greeting.
Click. Gary Leupp:
Happy birthday Mithras.
Click. Maureen Dowd:
Hey W., it's safe! Read this.
December 23, 2005
Click. (ABC News) Iraqi troops killed as Rumsfeld signals pullback.
Click. Charlie Savage: Wiretaps said to sift all overseas contacts.
Click. Joe Cannon: Vote fraud -- good news is strange news.
Click. Maggie Farley: UN hit by a bolt (Bolton) from the right.
Click. Jerry Kammer: A steady flow of influence. Close ties make Rep. Lewis, lobbyist Lowery a potent pair.
Click. Robert Pear and Michael Janofsky: Students to bear big burden under final budget bill.
Click. Paul Krugman: The tax cut zombies.
Click. Sgt. Dallas Walker: Platoon perfects art of locating weapons caches.
Click. (Bloomberg) Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito wrote in a 1984 memo that U.S. attorneys general should be immune being sued on claims of ordering illegal wiretaps.
Click. Ed O'Loughlin:
Still a long, dangerous journey 2000
year on. A modern Mary and Joseph travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem.
Click. (Reuters) Italy court issues EU arrest warrant for CIA team.
Click. John Chan:
East Asian Summit plagued by tension and rivalry.
Click. Rich Connell and Robert J. Lopez:
Ties Between Gang, Fences Probed. Millions of dollars in stolen goods are believed to be passing from a Latino street group to Middle Easterners in the U.S. for resale.
Click. Tracy Wilkinson: Italy may charge US soldier.
Click. Michael Calore:
How to create your own podcast.
Click. Lisa M. Krieger:
Discoveries on Uranus full of drama, mystery.
Click. (Science Daily) Clinical trial to test stem cell approach for children with brain injury.
Click. (Pravda) Extrasensory abilities of cats strike imagination.
December 22, 2005
Click. Pepe Escobar: The ultimate quagmire.
Click. Gene Maddaus: Legal experts say prosecution bungled espionage case.
Click. Patrick J. McDonnell: Some Paraguayans fear US "secret agenda".
Click. Kristen Breitweiser: The king's red herring.
Click. L. Britt Snyder: Recollections from the Church Committee's investigation of NSA.
Click. Arianna Huffington: 2005 - things I want to forget.
Click. (Spiegel) Bye bye, Bambi. Hello sewer rats. (Animation)
Click. Cara Mia DiMassa, Richard Winton: Patient dumping on Los Angeles skid row.
Click. William J. Kole: Doctor accused of Nazi clinic atrocities dies.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Attention IM Users, Santa's Not Only Fake, He's A Worm.
Click. John Howard: California Senate settling on bond infrastructure package.
Click. George Skelton: For California's aged, blind, disabled, a lump of coal for Christmas.
Click. (Effect measure) The magic bullet Tamiflu loses some of its magic.
Click. Michael Casey: Bird flies 2,500 miles for baby's food.
December 21, 2005
Click. Carol D. Leonnig and Dafna Linzer: Spy court judge quits in protest.
Click. Gabriel Sherman: Why the New York Times ran the wiretap story, defying Bush.
Click. (Xymphora) The snooping search engine.
Click. Maureen Dowd: The squires of surveillance.
Click. Anatole Kaletsky: The truly historic discovery of 2005: American military might is a myth.
Click. Brenda Stardom: The Worm crawls in. The Pedophile Crawls out.
Click. (Penn State) Researchers sequence DNA of woolly mammoth.
December 20, 2005
Click. David Lindorff: Missing black boxes in WTC attacks found by firefighters, analyzed by NTSB, concealed by FBI.
Click. Ziba Norman: Russia's gas weapon to move into the US.
Click. David Johnston, Linda Greenhouse: Legal authority for policy rests on interpretation. Congress approved vaguely worded sentence after 9/11.
Click. Howell Raines: The miscreant dynasty.
Click. Stephen Pizzo: Spying and torture: Don't go there.
Click. (Slingshot.org) The worthless news of Frist’s PhRMA scheme.
Click. Bill Conroy: Judge in Scooter Libby, Sibel Edmonds cases is redacted in action. What Financial Interests Lie Behind Former Drug Warrior Reggie Walton?
Click. Thomas Hargrove: Police changing policies on missing children.
Click. (AP) Major Chiron shareholder opposes Novartis deal.
Click. Luis A. Gomez: With 51%, Evo is President- elect. As results come in, Bolivia erupts in celebration.
Click. Jean Friedsky: Election day in Bolivia 2005. A View from the Chapare and Cochabamba.
December 19, 2005
Click. Pauline Jelinek: Attorney General Gonzales says Congress authorized spying.
Click. (Daily Kos) Senator Jay Rockefeller disapproved of secret spying when informed.
Click. Coleen Rowley: Oversight and the abuse of power.
Click. Laura Rozen blog: Nuclear code briefcases went with Cheney to Kabul?
Click. (Toledo Blade) Presidential pipeline: Bush's top fund-raisers see spoils of victory
Click. Karen Kwiatkowski: Violating the Constitution.
Click. A. C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen: The CIA's torture taxi. Te trail of a secret spy plane leads to a mysterious outfit in Reno with ties to a prominent Nevada politico.
Click. Mason Stockstill: Mexico's problems now our own.
Click. Jane Bussey: Made in China. Sold in Mexico.
Click. (Pravda) Russia has practically no chances to participate in Iraqi oil projects. For the time being, US-based companies distribute oil contracts between US-based contractors.
Click. Verne Kopytoff: How Google woos the best and brightest.
Click. Keay Davidson: California urged to embrace the tiniest science -- nanotech.
Click. Ian Hoffman: Scientists weigh gene modification for HIV patients.
December 17, 2005
Click. Nedra Pickler: Cheney seeking to shore up overseas ties.
Click. Jeffrey Feldman: Bush's permission slip for dictatorship.
Click. Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair: Time-delayed journalism. The NYT and the NSA's illegal spying operation.
Click. Will Bunch: The big stall. How Bush gamed the media to get re-elected in 2004.
Click. (Reuters) Powell: Rendition is not new.
Click. Ryan Lucas: Polish intelligence base focus of probe.
Click. (Independent) So, just who is Christian Bailey?
Click. Jason Leopold: Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Did Karl Rove hide or destroy evidence in the Plame case?
Click. (Independent) MI5 ruled London bombers were not a threat.
Click. Peter Cooper: Romanian and Bulgarian bases express US shift in vision.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Hot monkey love.
Click. Steve Huff: "Joseph, called Zerah, surnamed Justice..." The stalking of Nancy Grace.
Click. Lauran Neergaard: NIH uses live viruses for bird flu vaccine.
Click. Claire Hoffman, Kim Christensen: At inland base, Scientologists trained "Top Gun".
December 16, 2005
Click. Jennifer Loven: Bush won't discuss report of NSA spying.
Click. James Risen, Eric Lichtlau: Bush quietly killed spying curb in US.
Click. Jorge Hirsch: Nuclear deployment for an attack on Iran and the nuclear hit men behind it.
Click. (Spiegel) The CIA's German helpers.
Click. (Prensa) US tries for global trade transfer control.
Click. Margaret Kimberly: Condi, torture and Christmas.
Click. Joe Mysak: Main street believes whatever Wall Street tells it.
Click. Stan Cox:
The gene rush.
Click. Brenda Stardom:
Punk Loses Yet Another to Heroin: RIP Bomber of RKL.Click. Kevin Fagin: San Jose. Molester Curtis Dean Anderson pleads guilty to killing Xiana Fairchild. The persistence of little girl's great aunt kept case alive.
Click. (ABC News) Bush says 30,000 Iraqis killed in war.
Click. Alexander Cockburn: Murtha returns to the attack.
Click. (Reuters) Car bomb kills anti-Syrian newspaper magnate and lawmaker.
Click. (Reuters) UN says new evidence implicates Syria in Hariri death.
Click. Mitch Potter: Syrians fearful of becoming the next Iraq.
Click. (The Australian) Race warfare divides Sydney.
Click. Pablo Bachelet: Kirchner's leftward shift prompts Argentine official's trip to U.S.
Click. (AP) Bolivian Evo Morales could be a "nightmare" for the US.
Click. Gary Dinmore: Bush plans overhaul of US foreign aid system.
Click. Chris Sanders: The Bouncefield coincidence.
Click. Viveca Novak: What Viveca Novak told Fitzgerald.
Click. Professor Froomkin: CIA getting cold feet on rendition/torture?
Click. Nat Hentoff: CIA war crimes.
Click. Doug Thompson: DHS report admits air marshals "overreacted" in airport shooting.
Click. Francis Elliott: Unmasked: Out of the shadows for the first time: Britain's real spooks.
Click. Bob Herbert: When the '60s bloomed.
Click. Paul Krugman: Box balderdash.
Click. Victoria Colliver: Neediest may be hurt by new Medicare drug plan.
Click. (AP) How safe are nanoparticles?
Click. William Weir: North Pole holds treasures, clashes for several nations.
Click. Brenda Stardom: This Is Just Plain Nuts: Provide Lyrics, Go To Jail.
Click. Anna Abbott: Home chapels provide private havens in Napa.
Click. Effect Measure) No Tylenol for a bon vivant.
Click. Steve Huff: A tragedy in the making.
December 13, 2005
December 11, 2005
Click. Uzi Mahnaimi, Sarah Baxter:
Israel readies forces for strike on nuclear Iran by March.
Click. Nasser Karimi:
Iran offers US share in nuclear plants.
Click. (Moscow Times) Putin seeks membership in Asian business club.
Click. (Debka) Police report around 36 casualties, 4 in serious
condition, from at least four unexplained blasts at Buncefield oil depot and
refinery. On Dec. 7, an Islamic website ran an excerpt of an earlier videotape
in which bin Laden’s No. 2, Ayman Zawahiri called on “holy warriors” to
concentrate their attacks on oil targets.
Click. Joan Vennochi: The new machismo.
Click. Frank Rich:
It takes a Potemkin Village.
Click. Maureen Dowd:
Can Mommy know best?
Click. (New York Times) Death of an American city.
Click. (Firedoglake) The penitent (Vivecka Novak).
Click. Greg Mitchell: Viveca Novak. Another Plame journo kept her editor in the dark.
Click. Joseph Lelyveld: The strange case of Chaplain Yee.
Click. (Effect Measure) Trusting China on bird flu.
Click. Gaye LeBaron: "Ization" of Santa Rosa is an ongoing process.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Church on Saturday.
Click. Geoffrey O'Brien: Will you love me tomorrow? Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era.
Click. Robert Gammon: Fishy Business. Getting home is an uphill swim for local trout, even
without SF's water agency and George Bush teamed up against them.
Click. Thomas H. Maugh II: May woman's portrait a rare find.
December 11, 2005
Click. Uzi Mahnaimi, Sarah Baxter:
Israel readies forces for strike on nuclear Iran by March.
Click. Nasser Karimi:
Iran offers US share in nuclear plants.
Click. (Moscow Times) Putin seeks membership in Asian business club.
Click. (Debka) Police report around 36 casualties, 4 in serious
condition, from at least four unexplained blasts at Buncefield oil depot and
refinery. On Dec. 7, an Islamic website ran an excerpt of an earlier videotape
in which bin Laden’s No. 2, Ayman Zawahiri called on “holy warriors” to
concentrate their attacks on oil targets.
Click. Joan Vennochi: The new machismo.
Click. Frank Rich:
It takes a Potemkin Village.
Click. Maureen Dowd:
Can Mommy know best?
Click. (New York Times) Death of an American city.
Click. (Firedoglake) The penitent (Vivecka Novak).
Click. Greg Mitchell: Viveca Novak. Another Plame journo kept her editor in the dark.
Click. Joseph Lelyveld: The strange case of Chaplain Yee.
Click. (Effect Measure) Trusting China on bird flu.
Click. Gaye LeBaron: "Ization" of Santa Rosa is an ongoing process.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Church on Saturday.
Click. Geoffrey O'Brien: Will you love me tomorrow? Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era.
Click. Robert Gammon: Fishy Business. Getting home is an uphill swim for local trout, even
without SF's water agency and George Bush teamed up against them.
Click. Thomas H. Maugh II: May woman's portrait a rare find.
December 9, 2005
Click. (CNN) Yoko Ono joins vigil for John Lennon.
Click. Doug Thompson: Bush on the Constitution: "It's just a
goddamned piece of paper".
Click.
(Bloomberg) Iraq war, dragging down Republicans, creates a dilemma for Democrats, too.
Click. (Bloomberg) US refuses to join Montreal global warming talks over emissions rules.
Click. Peter Kornbluh: US leaders are using Pinochet's playbook.
Click. Chris Floyd: Sacred terror.
Click. Beth Gardner: Britain bars evidence obtained by torture.
Click. Logan Jenkins: It's politics as usual in a House of silence.
Click. Robert Reich: Class warfare with taxes.
Click. Paul Krugman: The Promiser in Chief.
Click. Molly Ivins: Impersonating the Lord.
Click. Onell R. Soto, Bill Ainsworth: Dow Jones heir bought house from Cunningham.
Click. (MSN) Merck "deleted safety data on Vioxx".
Click. Governor Schwartzenegger names Carol Corrigan to the California Supreme Court.
Click. Kelly Thornton: Prosecutors plan appeal in acquittal of
Zucchet.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Firefox 1.5: Good News and Bad News.
Click. The ten most puzzling ancient artifacts.
December 8, 2005
Click. Lolita C. Baldor: The Pentagon has tentative plans to halt the scheduled deployment of two
brigades to Iraq and instead send in smaller teams to support and train Iraqi
forces in what could be an early step toward an eventual drawdown of U.S. forces.
Click. Bob Herbert: Sharing the sacrifice, or ending it.
Click. Neil Macfarquhar: Egypt ponders price of Islamists' gains.
Click. Rupert Cornwell: Rice forced to defend prisoner renditions for the third time.
Click. Anne Gearan: Rice's torture denial leaves loopholes.
Click. Eric Umansky: Banning torture is tricky business.
Click. Andrew Sullivan: Winning the war on terrorism without
sacrificing freedom. The abolition of torture.
Click. Ken Silverstein: A court filing describes a classified proposal to send a detainee away for information extraction.
Click. Chris Marsden, Julie Hyland: Britain: Former law lord says US “guilty of lawlessness on a truly grand scale”.
Click. Ryan Lizza: Muddy waters. Poor Sam Alito.
Click. Sydney Blumenthal: Condi's trail of lies.
Click. (Christian Science Monitor) Locking Uncle Sam out of Asia.
Click. (CarbonWeb.org) Crude Designs - The rip-off of Iraq's Oil Wealth
Click. Richard B. Schmitt: The Patriot Act can't make up for a weak case.
Click. Joe Mathewson: Newspaper saved! Newspaper saved! Read all about it!
Click. Siobhan Morrissey: A passenger on Flight 924 gives his account of the shooting and says Rigoberto Alpizar never claimed to have a bomb.
Click. (CNN) Marshals', witnesses' accounts differ on jet bomb threat claim.
Click. Ben Smith: For Senator Clinton, New Hampshire is a forbidden state.
Click. James Carroll: Basilica of denial.
Click. Michael Hiltzik: Restoring HP to its original condition.
Click. Declan Butler: Indonesia threatens closure of US military lab that's key to avian flu fight.
Click. Maggie Whitlan: An interview with Don Wise, the creator of "incompetent design".
Click. Wilson Rothman: iRobot Scooba Floor-Washing Robot,
Click. Shane Goldmacher: Transition continues in California to lead up to pivotal State of the State.
Click. (AP) San Jose mayor apologizes for role in garbage contract scandal.
Click. Malcolm Maclachlan: Children's healthcare likely on Governor Schwarzenegger's agenda, +
Click. Governor officially appoints Genest as Finance Director.
Click. John Howard: GOP leaders, rank and file, watch Governor's policy moves closely.
Click. Jon Fleischman: Whether GOP or Dems rule, "federal preemption" threatens California.
Click. Patrick Dorinson: Political reform in California. The Big Bang theory.
Click. Robert W. Welkos: New Chapter in the Mystery of Marilyn: Her Own Words?
Click. Ron Rosenbaum: Nabokov’s Laura is saved from burning; Who was this woman?
Click. Brenda Stardom: Heroin For the Ears.
Click. (San Francisco Chronicle) Video scandal rocks
San Francisco police. 20 officers ordered suspended -- mayor condemns 'sexist,'
'racist' films, vows probe of department.
December 7, 2005
Click. David Crossland: Rice visit fails to build bridges in Germany.
Click. Jerry Mazza: On the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination, imagine....
Click. T. A. Frank: Bush officials misunderstood.
Click. Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman: With new legislation, Ohio Republicans plan holiday burial for American Democracy.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Torturing the facts.
Click. (E & P) Military mislead press, families, about how 10 Marines
died
Click. Mark Beunderman: Rice fails to reassure Europe on covert CIA operations.
Click. Hassan Hanizadeh: Coup brewing in Iraq?
Click. Borzou Daragahi: Five Iraqis describe horrors at the hands of Hussein's forces. But their
accounts do little to link misdeeds to the eight men on trial.
Click. Jeffrey Fleishman: Individual rights must be upheld,
Merkel says.
Click. Anthony Fenton: Ecuador's new Canadian ambassador helped plan Haiti coup.
Click. (E & P) Vanity Fair offers new details on Judith Miller saga.
Click. (Bloomberg) US Chief Justice John Roberts rules for business in first Supreme Court opinion.
Click. Rajesh Mahapatra: Microsoft to invest $1.7 billion, add 3,000 jobs in India, Gates says.
Click. Elinor Mills: Can there be another Google?
Click. Jennifer Van Bergen: Why did the Fourth Circuit suggest it
might vacate its decision in the case of alleged dirty bomb conspirator Jose Padilla?
Click. (Medical News Today) Chinese authorities have confirmed that a 10-year-old girl has bird flu. Experts are mystified as the
area she lives in, Ziyuan County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, is
free of infected birds.
Click. Mary Claire Dale: Lawyer jailed since 1995 on contempt charges
(won't reveal his assets in divorce case).
Click. James Meek: On the trail of the Borneo cat-fox.
Click. Jaymes Song: Don Ho recovering from stem cell procedure.
Click. (AFP) Give us a kiss! Druids reveal the mystery of mistletoe.
December 6, 2005
Click. Matthias Gebauer: The CIA in Europe. Berlin's silence for Washington.
Click. (Spiegel Online) "Everyone knew what was going on in Bondsteel".
Click. Anne Gearan: US admits botched detention, Merkel says.
Click. (Bloomberg) German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her foreign minister must tell
parliament what the previous government knew about the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Click. (CNN) US to take over bases in Romania.
Click. Paul Haven: Al Qaida figure finally gets attention.
Click. Stephen Pizzo: Donald Rumsfeld is mad as a hatter.
Click. Steve Coll: Young Osama. How he learned radicalism, and may have seen America.
Click. Kevin Hassett: Let's stamp out the money roaches in Congress.
Click. Peter Dujardin: China reportedly received ship data hidden in music files.
Click. James P. Pinkerton: Doves could destroy Hillary's hopes.
Click. Matthew Yi: Intel planning to invest more than $1 billion in India.
Chairman on weeklong tour of firm's operations all over Asia.
Click. David G. Savage: Lockyer asks justices to rein in 9th Circuit Court.
Click. Mark Posner: Evidence of political manipulation at the Justice Department.
Click. (Slingshot.org) The lies underlying the conservative Alito strategy.
Click. Ed Rampel: December 7, 1945 vs. September 11, 2005: Infamous comparisons.
Click. Julie Hilton: Could Tom Cruise sue "South Park" for suggesting he is gay? And even if he could, should he?
Click. Elaine Dutka: Discs are the new soapbox.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Windows Media Player Can Suck It.
Click. Interviews with Philip K. Dick.
December 5, 2005
Click. Jorge Hirsch: Chemical Saddam, Nuclear US.
Click. William Rees-Mogg: It's all nuts to me, Mr. Bush.
Click. Bob Herbert: A black hole.
Click. Paul Krugman: The joyless economy.
Click. (BBC) Rice defends US terror policies.
Full statement.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Condaleeze, Please! Tell the Truth
Click. Tracy Wilkinson: An Italian judge rejects the request of the retired station chief, wanted in a suspect's abduction.
Click. Duncan Campbell: Where they hide the cash.
Click. Spengler: Iran's strength in weakness.
Click. Rachel Metz: Printing organs on demand.
Click. Bleys W. Rose: Sonoma County reveals $1.6 million biolab.
December 4, 2005
Click. Joe Cannon: Deeper into the Wilkes/MZM scandals.
Click. Dean Calbreath, Jerry Kammer: ADCS founder Bent Wilkes spent years cultivating political contacts.
Click. Sarah Baxter: Condi goes on offensive over secret CIA jails.
Click. T. Christian Miller: Private security guards in Iraq operation with little supervision.
Click. Peter G. Gosselin: On their own in battered New Orleans
Click. Frank Rich: All the President's flacks.
Click. (New York Daily News) 4-year scandal of the 9/11 billion.
Click. Rachel E. Stassen-Berger: Former FBI agent, whistleblower Coleen Rowley defends campaign for congress.
Click. Gilbert Achcar interviewed by Phil Butland: Lebanon -- the dangerous effects of US interference.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Sticking up for Wikipedia.
Click. Nick Schou: Requiem for a Dreamgirl. A tale of sex, drugs, dirty cops—and a girl who knew too much.
Click. Paul Elias: Bird flu hype infecting biotech industry.
Click. Jonathan Carr-Brown: Doctor says bird flu drug is useless.
Click. (News Target) Chiron Corp's introduction of animal cells into 3,000 New Zealanders as a means
of testing a new flu vaccine has provoked the FDA to issue warnings about this
popular new method of vaccine testing, which the FDA claims could introduce
diseases like cancer from cultured cells into healthy individuals.
Click. Kent Atkinson: Chiron's flu drug linked to tumor cells.
Click. Evelyn Iritani: California rice farmers harvest crop of losses.
Click. Conrad
Goeringer: "God's Banker" murder trial begins.
Click. Steve King: Cornell Woolrich and the Noir Life.
December 4, 2005
Click. Joe Cannon: Deeper into the Wilkes/MZM scandals.
Click. Dean Calbreath, Jerry Kammer: ADCS founder Bent Wilkes spent years cultivating political contacts.
Click. Sarah Baxter: Condi goes on offensive over secret CIA jails.
Click. T. Christian Miller: Private security guards in Iraq operation with little supervision.
Click. Peter G. Gosselin: On their own in battered New Orleans
Click. Frank Rich: All the President's flacks.
Click. (New York Daily News) 4-year scandal of the 9/11 billion.
Click. Rachel E. Stassen-Berger: Former FBI agent, whistleblower Coleen Rowley defends campaign for congress.
Click. Gilbert Achcar interviewed by Phil Butland: Lebanon -- the dangerous effects of US interference.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Sticking up for Wikipedia.
Click. Nick Schou: Requiem for a Dreamgirl. A tale of sex, drugs, dirty cops—and a girl who knew too much.
Click. Paul Elias: Bird flu hype infecting biotech industry.
Click. Jonathan Carr-Brown: Doctor says bird flu drug is useless.
Click. (News Target) Chiron Corp's introduction of animal cells into 3,000 New Zealanders as a means
of testing a new flu vaccine has provoked the FDA to issue warnings about this
popular new method of vaccine testing, which the FDA claims could introduce
diseases like cancer from cultured cells into healthy individuals.
Click. Kent Atkinson: Chiron's flu drug linked to tumor cells.
Click. Evelyn Iritani: California rice farmers harvest crop of losses.
Click. Conrad
Goeringer: "God's Banker" murder trial begins.
Click. Steve King: Cornell Woolrich and the Noir Life.
December 3, 2005
Click. Alec Russell: Bush adopts British colonial model for Iraq.
Click. Jonathan Brown: The perils facing British contractors on the world's most dangerous road.
Click. Juan Cole: How Bush created a theocracy in Iraq.
Click. Maureen Dowd: W.'s head in the sand.
Click. Lawrence Masina: FBI plants fake candidate in West Virginia race.
Click. (London Times) Single mother tortured by Pinochet set for presidency.
Click. Molly Ivins: Impersonating the Lord.
Click. Hector Becerra and Richard Winton: Inmate slain in Los Angeles jail had mental troubles.
Click. Evelyn Larrubia: April trial set in Los Angeles for woman seeking to end conservatorship.
Click. Henry K. Lee: Spousal-slaying trial defendant Susan Polk argues with judge. Routine hearing to decide about lawyer for suspect.
Click. Robyn Shelton: Little-known heart therapy helps squeeze out chest pain.
Click. Masks and H5N1.
Click. Karen Janicek: Thousands re-enact Napoleonic triumph
Click.
Brenda Stardom: Your Flag Decal
Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore.
December 2, 2005
Click. Sameer N. Yacoub: Attack on Marines worst in Iraq since August.
Click. Paul Krugman: Bullet points over Baghdad.
Click. James Rosen: Able Danger: The ultimate government cover-up? +
Click. Time-line shows massive screw-ups.
Click. Kelly Hearn: US military presence in Paraguay irks neighbors.
Click. Dave Johnson: Challenge - Prove that voting machines accurately record votes.
Click. Joe Cannon: Wilkes -- the invisible empire.
Click. (Slingshot.org) Political hacks overruled Department of Justice
professionals on Delay redistricting plan.
Click. Andrew Bridges: GOP wants to create secretive government agency -- BARDA.
Click. Brenda Moore: Documentary goes inside Nuestra Familia.
Click. Rob Stein: Potentially deadly germ present nationwide
Click. Maureen O'Hagan: Court rejects Wenatchee sex-ring case award.
Click. Jenifer Warren: Governor Schwarzenegger is ordered to name prison healthcare czar.
Click. Rhys Blakely: Secret site reveals Apple's cheap laptop.
December 1, 2005
Click. (Mail & Guardian) Logs show 80 CIA planes visited UK.
Click. John Crewdson, Alessandra Maggiorani: Ex-CIA officer's appeal hints at agency's role in cleric's abduction.
Click. Lionel Van Deerlin: Third in line for the Presidency.
Click. Bob Herbert: Bush hits rewind.
Click. Jamie Gadett: Democrat Pete Ashdown faces an uphill battle against stalwart
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch. Is he ready
Click. Robert Novak: For now, Hoover's ghost lives on.
Click. Steve Huff: Meet RikiJo and the Jedi Knights of Hacking....
Click. W. T. Whitney, Jr.: Bolivians set to elect left-wing leader.
Click. Beth Fouhy: What's behind Governor Schwarzenegger selection of a Democrat as his chief of staff?
Click. Edwin Garcia: California Guard dismantles unit accused of domestic spying.
Click. Michael Hiltzik: Big Data Broker Eyes California DMV Records.
Click. (The Guardian) In praise of poets reading...in their own words.
for the fight?
November 30, 2005
Click. Barbara Slavin: Rice defends prisoner tactics.
Click. Robert Dreyfuss: What "staying the course" really means.
Click. Peter Spiegel: "Oil spot" replaces "whack-a-mole" strategy.
Click. Beth Duff-Brown: US under fire as climate conferees hash out plan to cut pollution.
Click. Maureen Dowd: The autumn of the patriarchy.
Click. William Finn-Bennett: Former prosecutor says future bleak for
four Cunningham unnamed co-conspirators.
Click. (Pravda) Washington and Moscow in confrontation over Iran's nuclear program.
Click. Mark Mazzetti, Borzou Daragahi: US military covertly pays to run stories in Iraqi press.
Click. Keay Davidson: Plutonium could be missing from Los Alamos National Laboratory. 600-plus pounds unaccounted for, activist group says.
Click. Luis Gomez: Chavez and the new "idiot right" in Bolivia.
Click. Kelly Rush: Does penalty fit the crime in San Bernardino County?
Click. Danielle Ganser: N.A.T.O. Gladio, and the strategy of tension.
Click. Ryan Blitstein: Craig$list.com. The much-loved Web site is taking millions from Bay
Area newspapers and causing layoffs that adversely affect coverage. And its founder's well-intentioned support of citizen journalism has a slim chance of
fixing the problem.
Click. Sarah Boseley: The nose cells that may help the paralyzed walk again.
Click. Carl T. Hall: California stem cell program wins key court ruling, poised to issue grants.
November 29, 2005
Click. Michael Hirsh, John Barry: The Salvador option.
Click. (Aljazeera) US envoy seeks talks with Iraq rebels.
Click. Juan Cole: Khalilzad to talk to Iranians.
Click. Guy Dinmore: US mulls response to EU prison inquiry.
Click. Aidan Lewis: Judge rejects appeal of CIA arrest warrant.
Click. Anita Powell: US troops give Iraqi soldiers crash course in basic training.
Click. Borzou Daragahi: Clark, Hussein defender, may put U.S. on trial.
Click. Ben Tanosborn: Nuremberg: not a mindset for "the powerful".
Click. Martin Kadzere Harare: Zimbabwe Banks' Assets Top $54.3 Trillion.
Click. Jihad el Khazen: King Abdullah: "We intervened to reach the Vienna-exit upon Assad's
insistence".
Click. (Xinhuanet) Outlawed Muslim Brotherhood makes surprising success in parliamentary poll.
Click. Erich Marquardt: Economic Brief -- Venezuela's Pipeline Deals''
Click. John Hudson: Pentagon's urban recon takes wing.
Click. Michelle Nijhuis: Global warming stalks Yosemite.
Click. Tom Chorneau: California may require firms to make voting machines hacker proof.
Click. Tim Johnson, Alan Bavley: Paralyzed man tries fetus cell procedure in China.
Click. Brenda Stardom: My Morning Jacket And The Last Letter.
November 28, 2005
Click. Seymour M. Hersh:
Up in the air.
Click. Sam Smith:
The nature of truth.
Click. Bill Gertz:
US seen as vulnerable to "space pulse" attack.
Click. (BBC) Spain - Venezuela arms deal near.
Click. Bob Herbert:
Cut our losses.
Click. Paul Krugman:
Age of anxiety.
Click. Scott Balduff:
Indian Air Force, in war games, gives US a run.
Click. Noah Leavitt:
The European investigations of the
claimed US secret prison network.
Click. Brenda Stardom:
Could the CIA planes in Portugal and Europe be running drugs?
Click. Liz Taylor:
We need national effort to teach geriatrics.
Click. Tsuneishi Keiichi: Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army's
biological warfare program.
Click. Tony Perry:
Exonerated San Diego aide still bitter over "strippergate".
Click. Marla Cone:
Hot on Parkinson's trail.
November 25, 2005
Click. Paul Reynolds: Diplomatic dance over nuclear Iran.
Click. Gilbert Reilhac: Satellites may aid "CIA prisons" probe.
Click.
(Bloomberg) European official links 31 planes to CIA in terror-detainee investigation.
Click. (AFX) Damascus says UN probe can question officials in Vienna.
Click. Scott Peterson: New Iraq strategy -- stay in hot spots.
Click. Dahlia Lithwick: Public Enemy No. 43,527. The government throws back another small fish.
Click. Edward Alden, Stephanie Kirchgaessner: US move that may bar foreign researchers.
Click. (Reuters) American company to fight pirates off Somalia
Click. James Wildermuth: Hacker to try to attack California voting machines.
Click. Evan Halper: California at risk to lose billions.
House-passed bill would cut into Medi-Cal funds and collection of child support payments and halt food stamps for legal immigrants.
NOVEMBER 23, 2005
(Photo: BACK IN THE FAMILY FOLD, Left to right grandmother
Barbara O'Neal, Baby Lee Magers, Ana Marie Cavazos Magers.)
Click. Mike Taugher: California representative Pombo's efforts in limbo.
Click. Stephen Pizzo: It's dime dropping season in D.C.
Click. Brett Martel: French ties to Louisiana strengthen after storm.
Click. James Badcock: In Barcelona, ideas to better guard the EU citadel.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Did Portugal Really Warn India About the Abu Salem Saga?
Click. Joe Cannon: Robert Baer.
Click. (AP) Official: Remarks halt probe of Santa Barbara judge.
Click. Rachel Gordon: San Francisco Mayor Newsom joins Feinstein on sister-city trip to Shanghai.
Hong Kong and Beijing also on mayor's itinerary.
Click. Dan Reed: Molester Dean Schwartzmiller seeks damages in suit against accusers.
Click. (Wikipedia) Atlas experiment.
Click. (AP) Craigslist founder gets more specific about news site launch.
Click. Alexander Jung: The box that makes the world go round.
Click. Richard Verrier: "E-School" draws from the world.
Click. Iris Fanger: The long "Purple" road to the Great White Way.
Click. Steve King: Yukio Mishima's Seppuku aesthetics.
November 24, 2004
Click. (Reuters) Iran: Our A-bomb data widely available on Internet.
Click. Chris Tomlinson: Suicide car bomber kills 30 in Iraq.
Click. (Waco Tribune) War protestors' resolve firm after arrests.
Click. Karen Kwiatkowski:
Ten political blessings.
Click. Conn Hallinan:
Destabilization in Latin America won't be easy.
Click. Douglas Jehl, Eric Lichtblau:
"Dirty bomb" case sidestepped over torture issues. White
House balked at having 2 al Qaeda detainees questioned at Padilla terror trial.
Click. (Canada.com) Allegations of CIA planes landing in Canada.
Click. Woody Bair: Memphis law office linked to CIA's moving of suspected terrorists.
Click. Bill Conroy:
Unraveling the pretense of the Guatemalan "Narco-State".
Click. Shyam Bhatia: Blair government wants to keep secret a hot leak.
Click. Ronald "Buzz" Gutierrez:
Revenue sharing and
tribal reservation shopping create greed and misfortune.
Click. Robert Parry: Dissing Fitzgerald & prosecutorial politics.
Click. Joe Cannon: "Christian" mind control.
Click. Lisa Pease: The enduring JFK mystery.
Click. Peter Dale Scott: The global drug meta-group: Drugs, managed violence, and the Russian 9/11.
Click. Carla Hill: Attorney Mesereau's fame doesn't alter his focus.
Click. Steve King: Steinbeck, Shakespeare, Pearls.
Click. Jerry Hirsch: Kahlo family is counting on Frida's image to sell high-end tequila.
Click. Jeremey McCarter: The Ruby Sunrise and RFK prove
that politics doesn’t have to mean lousy theater.
Click. Patricia Yolen: Most common turkeys this
Thanksgiving are wild. Once scarce as hens' teeth, they're making comeback.
November 23, 2005
Click. (The Guardian) Pinochet indicted on tax evasion charges.
Click. (Finnish News Agency STT) CIA prison aircraft landed in Finland in 2003.
Click. Tuomo Pietiläinen, Santtu Parkkonen:
Helsinki again a center of international espionage.
Click. (Political gateway) Secret CIA flights made stopovers in Portugal in 2005: report.
Click. (The Guardian) Legal gag on Bush Blair war row.
Click. (MSNBC) 9-11 Iraq link refuted days after attack.
Click. Rebecca Dana, Lizzy Ratner:
While we were sleeping.
Click. Ben Smith: Hillary's Iraq. Ambiguous hawk in a fog of war.
Click. Melvin A. Goodman:
Some reports regarding Iraq never made it to Congress.
Click. Justin Blum:
Meaning of "participate" is key to task force flap. GOP offers definition to support
testimony of top oil executives.
Click. Xymphora:
The theft of Iraqi oil wealth.
Click. Juan Cole:
Bush as press assassin: Baathist in a mirror.
Click. Professor Michael Froomkin: Padilla indicted. A bittersweet moment for the rule of law.
Click. (Political Gateway) Court TV will broadcast Saddam trial.
Click. Akhil Amar: The Constitutional and legal questions raised by the Scooter Libby indictment -- and some answers.
Click. Joe Dignan: The Vatican is about to issue a new directive condemning homosexuality and keeping gay priests
out of the Catholic Church. In San Francisco, that would threaten one of the most vibrant Catholic parishes.
Click. Brenda Stardom: CIS: Miami "Urban Hellraisers" Episode Inspired by Jack Thompson?
Click. Robert Salazar: A Democrat gives thanks for all the California Republican turkeys.
Click. Malcolm Maclachlan: San Francisco -- a test tube for public financing of campaigns.
Click. (H5N1) 300 dead in China from Avian bird flu?
Click. Ann Harrison: How Mirkarimi balanced "Big Pot" and the concerned neighbors around San Francisco medical marijuana clubs.
Click. Manet and the sea.
November 22, 2005
Click. LEO ALLEN MAGERS
UPDATE
by Virginia McCullough
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask
what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what
America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20,1961 (1917-1963).
More quotations
+ More quotations
Click. Ted Boscia: Book on JFK investigator leads to answers on
assassination. Joan Mellen has spent eight years researching Jim Garrison and John F. Kennedy’s death.
Click. Mae Brussell:
The Nazi connection to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
