ARCHIVES February 27, 2006 to present.
April 22, 2006
Click. Roger Cohen: US and China joined at the hip on stability.
Click. Khalid Hasan: US now viewing Pakistan without Musharraf: Stratfor.
Click. Sydney Blumenthal: Revolt of the generals.
Click. Michael Rogers: Federal government will release all LGBT surveillance documents.
Click. Maureen Dowd: The great Chinese fake-out.
Click. James M. Yoch, Jr.: Former US prosecutor refuses to plead to obstruction charges from botched terror case.
Click. Mike Robinson: Ryan juror turmoil in former Gov. George Ryan's trial sparks judge's concern.
Click. Brenda Stardom: MySpace's Recent Disgraces: Worst, Columbine-Copy Cat Plot Uncovered.
Click. Jeff Wells: Won't you come home, Reno Harnish.
Click. Peggy Peck: Periosteal cells grow cartilage, bone, and skeletal muscle.
Click. Kara Platoni: The Fragile Ones: As science strives to understand Fragile X Syndrome and its links to autism, Lucas Clark's family is content just to make it through the day.
April 21, 2006
Click. Scott Lindlaw: Bush will not declare disaster for California levees.
Click. (Napa Register) Bush visit: Angwin out, Feinstein in for Saturday. GOP locals plan rally. Meadowood relaxed day before president arrives.
Click. Jim Doyle: Marin area shifts toward full disaster readiness. Residents urged to 'Get Ready' with 2-hour class.
Click. Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar: Medicare recipients could face 7% increase in costs. Big push on to get drug coverage for 90% of seniors.
Click. Ryan McCarthy: El Dorado County DA's office subpoenas medical records for woman facing conspiracy charges.
Click. (Lodi News) Judge clarifies instruction for Hamid Hayat jury.
Click. (Strategypage.com) Ten percent of the troops are robots.
Click. Juan Cole: Maliki the Shiite Candidate.
Click. Gerald Baker: This month of short spoons will not save Bush's reputation.
Click. Molly Ivins: Don't make a martyr of Moussaoui.
Click. (China Matters) Not a good day.
Click. (LA Times) Dozens of Los Angeles police officers hold private investigator licenses, posing potential conflicts of interest.
Click. Dalya Alberge: Da Vinci Code and Ken Loach war epic lead Cannes assault.
Click. Hilton Als: Stardust. John Guare on ambition and delusion.
Click. John Simon: Julia Roberts stumbles on Broadway. "Awake" feels dated.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Portuguese slim down with two new products.
April 21, 2006
Click. (Bloomberg) Iraq's ruling United Iraqi Alliance may choose a new candidate for prime minister after Ibrahim al- Jaafari said he's willing to step aside.
Click. Bob Herbert: Our dirty war.
Click. Sidney Blumenthal: Walking the White House plank.
Click. (Christian Science) Mideast axis forms against the West.
Click. (Time) McClellan didn't want to resign.
Click. Mark Morford: Chips down, Bush plans a Hail Mary bet.
Click. David Corn: Rove on the stand?
Click. (Bloomberg) Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi refused to recognize Romano Prodi's victory in Italy's closest- ever election even after the country's highest appeals court confirmed the result, challenging the former European Commission president's ability to govern.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Punks Rally Against Pay to Play.
April 19, 2006
Click. Carl Bernstein: Senate hearings on Bush now.
Click. (London Times) Mr. Hu meets Mr. Gates.
Click. (London Times) Enter the dragon.
Click. (The Independent) America meets the new superpower.
Click. (Bloomberg) French President Jacques Chirac, starting a two-day visit to Cairo today, will ask Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak to pressure the Hamas-led Palestinian government to renounce violence after it endorsed a Tel Aviv suicide bombing that killed nine Israelis.
Click. (The Independent) Death squad allegations threaten to derail Bush's last Latin ally.
Click. Thomas L. Friedman: I'd rather live with a nuclear Iran.
Click. Maureen Dowd: The decider sticks with the derider.
Click. Dick Morris: A Republican Jimmy Carter.
Click. (Peking Duck) The badness of Michelle Malkin.
Click. Arianna Huffington: Fresh faces of '06: Bolten, Portman...and Rummy?
Click. Jason Vest: Haunted by Abu Ghraib.
Click. Henry K. Lee. Accusation by Susan Polk leaves prosecutor livid.
Click. (Smoking Gun) Duke rape case e-mail shocker.
Click. Dominic Dunn: You're nobody till somebody bugs you.
Click. Richard Lloyd Parry: Japanese scientists displayed yesterday the oldest samples of ice yet retrieved, which promise to reveal invaluable data about the Earth’s climate a million years ago.
Click. (Bloomberg) Roche Holding AG today handed over enough Tamiflu influenza medication to the World Health Organization to treat 3 million people in a rapid response to a potential bird flu outbreak.
Click. Howie Klein: Hearing Neil Young's new album "Living With War".
April 18, 2006
Click. (London Times) Israel says "No strike against Hamas".
Click. (Bloomberg) President named a new budget chief Rob Portman and a top trade negotiator, the start of what may become a wider reorganization of an administration.
Click. Molly Ivins: Karl Rove's early machinations.
Click. Carlos Villatoro: Bush is coming to St. Helena...right?
Click. Craig Whitlock: Tensions rise in feud over access to Nazi archive. Diplomats, scholars push to make archive public, but Germany reluctant.
Click. (AP) Moussaoui mocks psychologist's testimony.
Click. Karl D. John: Vietnam's banks. A wild new world.
Click. Todd Crowell: Why the Chinese love Seattle.
Click. Bertil Lintner: An underworld paved with gold.
Click. (E & P) Jack Anderson's family fighting FBI effort to see the late columnist's papers.
Click. Virginia Hennessey: In defense of Venezuela. Justice describes "profound change" in MIIS speech.
Click. Nick Paumgarten: Getting there.
Click. Ryan McCarthy: The El Dorado Hills woman who faces criminal conspiracy charges for allegedly defrauding workers at her ranch is the Republican congressional candidate in a Bay Area district in the June 6 election.
Click. (ABC) Duke sexual assault suspect faces assault charges in previous case.
Click. (Effect Measure) Eighteen holes of extra wetlands.
Click. Philip Boroff: Pulitzer Decision to withhold playwright prize creates drama.
April 17, 2006
Click. (Bloomberg) Former Illinois Governor George Ryan, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for commuting the state's death sentences, was convicted today of charges that he took cash, gifts and trips in exchange for state contracts.
Click. (Bloomberg) Palestinian bomber kills 8 in Israel; Hamas approves (Update3).
Click. M. K. Bhadrakumar: China and Russia invite Iran into the fold.
Click. Richard A. Serrano: Moussaoui jury faces a complex defendant.
Click. Michael Dorman: An untold story of 9/11.
Click. Ken Silverstein: The making of a lobbyist. Jack Abramoff's start in South Africa.
Click. (Bloomberg)
Joshua Bolten, the new White House chief of staff, indicated he's preparing to make changes in the Bush
administration, telling senior aides today to `refresh, re- engage'' or quit now.
Click. Joseph Cannon: Opus Dei and a new cartoon-gate?
Click. Robert Dreyfuss:
Vice squad. Dick Cheney's staff.
Click. (Toledo Blade) Landmark murder trial of priest to start Monday. Toledo nun was killed day before Easter ’80.
(Satanist ritual alleged.)
Click. Brian Foley:
Sunol, California residents ready to fight over county's proposed compost facility.
Site would bring 600 tons of waste per day into small town.
Click. Steve Huff: SubSpecies23. (Re: The extensive Internet activities of Kevin Underwood, arrested for murder of Jamie Rose Bolin, age 10.)
Click. Christopher Deliso: Inside the international terror market.
Click. Scott Johnson: Phantom force: In the "Year of the Police," a murky security group in Iraq is mutating and growing.
Click. (The Independent) Through a lengthy, covert operation, Japan is poised to seize control of whale hunting - and that spells disaster for the endangered mammal.
Click. David McNeill: So why, exactly, is Tokyo so keen on whale hunting?
Click. Gavin Esler: Profile of Ollanta Humala: "Everyone in Peru wants change, a new message and a new messenger".
Click. Kevin Hassett: Hillary the front-runner stakes out the center.
Click. Tony Zinman: David Hare's drama of what made war happen.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Returned Email And Paragraph Salad.
April 16, 2006
Click. (AFP) US began planning war against Iran even before Iraq.
Click. (London Times) Iran suicide bombers "ready to hit Britain".
Click. Jack M. Balkin: The return of separate but equal.
Click. (Sunday Herald) Men were shocked to see a woman, but I have been in the industry for 20 years, so I don’t rise to the bait".
Click. Steve Hart: Inventor of computer-connected cat door just one do-it-yourselfer targeted by "Make" magazine.
Click. Martin Espinoza: Mekong market a cultural melting pot.
Click. Gaye LeBaron: "Jessie letters" illuminate Santa Rosa after 1906 quake.
Click. Don Thompson: Lodi trial finds no evidence of terrorist nest. Residents say feds' case against father, son looks weak.
Click. Ryan McCarthy: Juror misconduct alleged in Richard Hamlin bid for new trial.
Click. Brita Belli: Bush loves the ladies.
Click. Kristi Heim: Two Washingtons, two reactions to Hu.
April 15, 2006
Click. Julian Borger: Pentagon planned for Tehran conflict with war game involving UK troops.
Click. (RIAN) War in Iraq as a precursor to war in Iran.
Click. (Khaleej) US prosecutors tie up Dubai money exchanges to Iranian drug lords, Chicago networks.
Click. Maureen Dowd: The Rummy mutiny.
Click. Patrick J. Buchanan: The generals' revolt.
Click. Joseph Cannon: To war, to war, to war we're going to go....
Click. (Zaman) US to pressure Turkey in case of a war on Iran.
Click. Col. Dan Smith: Why few top military officers resign on principle. Candor or career?
Click. (BBC) Nearly 90 years after the guns fell silent, the mud of Flanders is still giving up its secrets.
Click. (BBC) Mouse sheds light on regeneration.
April 14, 2006
Click. Mark Hosenball: America’s Secret Police? Intelligence experts warn that a proposal to merge two Pentagon intelligence units could create an ominous new agency.
Click. Stephen P. Pizzo: Permission to speak freely denied.
Click. (Guardian) Ungoverned and ungovernable.
Click. Antonio Castaneda: Iraqi army troops can walk away on a whim.
Click. Melinda Liu: The most important phrase you’ll never hear. Is China’s "peaceful rise" an aggressive expansion or a harmonious one?
Click. Simon Jenkins: Dead birds, terrorists, Franciscans. It's 15th-century Florence all over again.
Click. Gerry J. Gilmore: Department of Defense to set up joint intelligence operations centers worldwide.
Click. (RFS) Documents about Uruguayan and Chilean intelligence stolen from journalist.
Click. Edward Lazarus: Should Graphic Testimony about 9/11 have been heard by the Moussaoui sentencing jurors? The continuing controversy over the use of victim impact evidence.
Click. Nancy Isle Nation:
A Marin judge Thursday refused to grant a new trial to the attorney for eight plaintiffs who said they were
injured when the bikes they were riding crashed because of a defect.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Portugal: Supreme Court Rules Corporal Punishment Ok For Mentally Disabled Children.
Click. Beth Winegamer: San Mateo born of election fraud, corruption.
Click. Joseph Cannon: Political porn. It's hypnotic.
Click. Christopher Goffard: Former Aryan brother, a witness in racketeering trial, tells of broad "family" responsibilities.
April 14, 2006
Click. Margaret Carlson: Bush -- Cheney record weighs on party candidates.
Click. Pepe Escobar: The war on Iran.
Click. Timothy Garton Ash: Only the national genius for improvisation can save Italy now.
Click. (Bloomberg) Google Inc., the most-used Internet search engine, may buy companies in China to catch up with Baidu.com Inc. in the world's second-largest online market.
Click. (Interfax) Russian Space Agency: No point in resuming Moon research.
Click. (London Times) Telescope's great leap forward to finding ET.
Click. (AFP) British doctors revive girl’s heart after removing donor’s.
Click. (ITAR TASS) Sovereign Prince of Monaco Albert II is going to be a first royal person to reach the North Pole.
Click. Robert Gammon: We're Outta Here! A massive mining operation near the Sunol-Ohlone wilderness will send the East Bay's coveted elk and eagles fleeing, to say nothing of the hikers.
Click. Ron Russell: KRON's Last Gasp. How a once-proud San Francisco television station became ground zero in the nation's most controversial experiment in local TV news.
Click. Brenda Stardom: There's A Doctor In The HOUSE.
April 12, 2006
Click. William M. Arkin: Iran: Send in the Marines?
Click. Richard A. Serrano: Heroism, fatalism aboard Flight 93.
Click. George Friedman: Idealism, idealism and U.S. foreign policy.
Click. (UPI) Bush said ready to free Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
Click. (Army News) Coalition launches "Operation Mountain Lion" in Afghanistan.
Click. (ADNKI) Italy's justice minister will not ask for extradition of CIA agents.
Click. (Xinhua) China and US wrap of trade talks, reach consensus.
Click. (AP) FEMA says New Orleans homes must be raised 3 feet off the ground.
Click. Allison Hoffman: Democrat Francine Busby reaches run-off for Randy Duke Cunningham's Congressional seat.
Click. Henry K. Lee: Dyleski roommates accuse deputies of trauma.
Click. Becky Bartindale: Stanford plans online high school for the gifted.
Click. Dion Nissenbaum: Two Muslim families work together to keep open site where Jesus was crucified, buried.
Click. (Science Daily) Building a hand-held lab-on-a-chip to simplify blood tests.
Click. (Harvard) Investigating canals across time, from space: Ur takes a step back to see ancient networks.
Click. Adam Gopnick: In the "Gospel of Judas" the renegade is redeemed.
Click. Geoff Elliott: Diplomacy before force. Bush on Iran.
Click. (Regnum) Experts say conflict between USA and Iran threatens investors with unpredictable consequences.
Click. (Ria Novosti) Iran's economy could withstand U.S. military strike - expert.
Click. Juan Cole: 50 Dead in Iraq Violence. Jaafari Refuses to Step Down
Click. Maureen Dowd: Wag the camel.
Click. Jeffrey Steinberg: Will Cheney be booted out in time?
Click. Karen Kwiatkowski: US Army looking for a few good rabbis.
Click. Joseph Cannon: Zarqawi-gate: More important than you think.
Click. Laura Wides-Munoz: Database at center of immigration reform.
Click. (EIR) Interview with Dr. Justin Frank re: Bush.
Click. (Daily Telegraph) First Knights Templar are found.
Click. Brenda Stardom: MySpace Gets Policed -- But Will It Work?
Click. Henry K. Lee: Susan Polk trial erupts in verbal fireworks again. Defendant clashes with prosecutor over questions to witness.
April 11, 2006
Click. (Forbes) Iran hits milestone in nuclear technology.
Click. William M. Arkin: Goldilocks and Iran.
Click. (ADNKI) Judge indicts 29 for Madrid train bombings.
Click. Shane Harris: Internet devices threaten NSA's ability to gather intelligence legally.
Click. Nora Ephron: Scooter, Rosa Lopez and the Grassy Knoll.
Click. (AP) California stem cell agency -- armed with money borrowed from wealthy philanthropists -- handed out its first research grants Monday, 17 months after voters approved borrowing $3 billion to fund the controversial science.
Click. Greg Palast: Loser nation.
Click. Gerald Fitzgerald: The good old days on hippie hill.
Click. (Yahoo News) Bush says classified info release to "help people see the truth".
Click. Joseph Cannon: Plamegate update.
Click. Katerina Ossenovia: Democrats going to court for GOP answers on New Hampshire phone jamming.
Click. (The Guardian) Prodi claims victory in Italy poll.
Click. (London Times) An Italian fudge.
Click. Hywel Williams: Britain's ruling elites now exercise power with a shameless rapacity.
Click. (Moscow News) Iran, NGO Issues May Complicate Russia’s Entry to WTO.
Click. Ekky Irion: Countdown to U.S. - Iran war has begun. Reports of presence of US bombers in England seen as advance.
Click. (Eurasia.net) Azerbaijani President to hold talks with Bush on April 28.
Click. (Regnum) 5,000,000 USSR citizens were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps
Click. Mark Henderson: Drugs companies "inventing diseases to boost their profits".
Click. Adrian Tan: Uncovering the "dark matter".
Click. Stephen Hutcheon: Google brain drained - but he'll be back.
Click. John Lichfield: Unmasking the Mona Lisa: Expert claims to have discovered da Vinci's technique.
April 10, 2006
Click. Paul Watson: US military secrets for sale at Afghan Bazaar.
Click. (Bloomberg) French President Jacques Chirac scrapped a labor law intended to reduce youth unemployment after the biggest protests by unions and students since 1968.
Click. Keay Davidson: NASA thinks small for Mars trip. Tiny robot-like brains would safeguard ship.
Click. James Sterngold: An arrest for theft in Malibu mystery. Crash of Ferrari led to charges over exotic car imports.
Click. Larry Parsons: Monterey wine corridor proposal on table.
Click. Kristi Heim: Stroke of a pen captures data.
Click. Jane Smiley: Lying and cheating.
Click. (AP) Elderly Los Angeles woman ticketed for crossing street too slowly.
Click. Paul Krugman: Yes he would.
Click. (Regnum) ElBaradei is ready personally to negotiate with Iran leaders
Click. (Defense Talk) Weaponization of space will have unpredictable consequences.
Click. Margaret Carlson: Bush's search for leakers leads to his mirror.
Click. Jack M. Balkin: Would Jesus stay out of politics?
Click. Brenda Stardom: Culture Shock: Deported Canadians Suffer in Portugal.
Click. (Interfax) US will fail to create new spaceship by 2010 to replace shuttle - NASA.
Click. James Pressley: CIA agents have much to learn from Odysseus, Hannibal, Cortes.
Click. (London Times) Fat-busting laser revolutionizes treatment for acne and cellulite.
Click. (Khaleej) Indian headhunters use “speed dating” to meet job demand
Click. David Sinclair: Rising singer underscores internet music revolution.
April 9, 2006
Click. (Think Progress) Hersh: Our military is "very loyal to the President, but they’re getting to the edge".
Click. Juan Cole: Man of the moment. Radical al-Sadr key to success in Iraq.
Click. (Zama) "Terrorist treatment" to Russian fascists on the agenda.
Click. Jeffrey St. Claire: Outsourcing US missile technology to China.
Click. (Jeff Wells, Rigorous Intuition) Money doesn't talk.
Click. Gordon Prather: Why we're at war.
Click. Stephen Magagnini: Lodi terror case lawyer proves resourceful rookie.
Click. Jack Chang: Children stolen during Argentina's dirty war begin to resurface.
Click. Geza Vermes: Iscariot and the dark path to the Field of Blood
Click. Scott Lindlaw: Richmond lab at the front lines of bird flu effort in California.
Click. (Xymphora) Conspiracy theory vs. institutional theory.
Click. (Oakland Tribune) Gwen Araujo's tragic story adapted for TV audience (Gloria Allred is co-executive producer).
Click. Nobel Prize winner Kandel speaks of brain, snails, memory pill.
Click. Cezanne in Provence.
April 8, 2006
Click. (Khaleej) "The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine reported in its April 17 issue."
Click. Fikret Ertain: Iran's war games and the message.
Click. (AKI) The first official and direct talks between Iranian and US representatives since November 1979.
Click. (The Acorn) Superman, batman and nuclear primacy. (The current nuclear capacity of nations: US is close to nuclear primacy -- the ability to wipe out all nuclear weapons against it.)
Click. M. K. Bhadrakumar: Searching for attackers in the night.
Click. (Regnum) Will Azerbaijan agree to join the anti-Iranian coalition? Azeri press digest.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Divine right of the Bushes. (The "immaculate declassification")
Click. (Effect Measure) 1951.
Click. (Moscow News) "Last dictator in Europe" to be sworn for third term in Belarus.
Click. (Zaman) Penniless Hamas receives blow from banks.
Click. (BBC) Who is Hamas?
Click. (Xinhua) A Chinese entrepreneur delegation and the Los Angeles municipality signed here Thursday an array of procurement contracts worth 4.44 billion U.S. dollars.
Click. (Pakistan Tribune) India nuclear deal to disturb balance of power in S Asia: Kasuri.
Click. (AP) Mental patient charged with threat to Bush.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Operação Tornado Results In Another Massive Cocaine Bust In Portugal.
Click. Ronald Bailey: Anyone for tennis, at the age of 150?
Click. (Reuters) Pine nut ingredient helps suppress appetite.
Click. )Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Coach Maggie Dixon's death shocks cadets at West Point. "Guard Adrienne Payne recalled one of Ms. Dixon's challenges to her team: 'Adversity, ladies. How are you going to react?'"
Click. Elaine Pagels: The Gospel Truth.
Click. (Sploid) The Judas cover-up.
April 7, 2006
Click. Murray Waas: Libby says Bush authorized leaks.
Click. Juan Cole: Bush - leaker-in-chief? Bush as Johnson + Nixon.
Click. Joseph Cannon: Plamegate and the impeachment of George W. Bush.
Click. Ismail Kul: Merkel to hold Islamic summit at Prime Ministry.
Click. Tim Reid: On a rare tour of the US nuclear laboratory in Los Alamos, our correspondent is shown a project to replace warheads that many believe Britain is not only watching but is deeply involved in.
Click. Patrick J. Buchanan: Kerry, the anti-war candidate?
Click. Ben Macintyre: Shed no tears for the alligator... or for the panda, come to that. It's another of those bizarre circuses they call an Italian election.
Click. Kenneth Chang: Study, in a first, explains evolution's molecular advance.
Click. (London Times) Huge tracts of Scotland under quarantine after H5N1 found in swan.
Click. Jude Weber: Ex-army officer with a dark past tops poll in Peru.
Click. (BBC) The world's biggest prison system -- in America.
Click. Ken Livingstone: London, a city for the Asian century.
Click. Brenda Stardom: A Racist Clash With Britain's Terror Act.
Click. Andrew Norfolk: No carrot is safe as monster rabbit goes on rampage.
Click. Gerard Baker: Manliness.
Click. Dalya Alberge: Judas did as Jesus asked – "gospel" reveals the other face of a traitor.
Click. James Bone: Harvard flocks to see the guru of happiness.
Click. Tim Gaynor: Archaeologists discover ancient pyramid beneath Mexico City.
Click. Archive Grid. Open the door to history.
Click. Stendhal's 52-day novel.
Click. Manet's "The Railway".
April 6, 2006
Click. John Kahn: China sends business group to US paving way for Hu.
Click. Sydney Blumenthal: The tethered goat strategy.
Click. Joseph Sobran: Bush's latest idea.
Click. Jacob Weisberg: Why we don't need an immigration reform bill.
Click. Joseph Cannon: Republican child abuse.
Click. Jorge Martin: Massive US military exercises in the Caribbean pose dire threat to Venezuela.
Click. (ADNKI) Iranian hand behind Iraq government stalemate.
Click. (Telegraph) "Big-mouth" bin Laden angered his lieutenants.
Click. Judith Pearson delivers a talk on spy Virginia Hall.
Click. Jason Horowitz, Ben Smith: Clinton's ball. Bill blocking, Hill huddles.
Click. Noah Shachtman: There are still FBI agents who don't have email addresses.
April 5, 2006
Click. Jonathan Freedland: No, international law doesn't have to be dumped because of al-Qaida. The Geneva conventions may have been written for a postwar world but the fine print allows for every eventuality.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Two worn-out diplomats, one fold-out bed.
Click. (The Independent) Revealed. The plight of prisoners caught up in US rendition.
Click. (The Independent) The Execution. How an IRA man turned British spy met his brutal end.
Click. Joseph Cannon: Left eye open. Right eye blind.
Click. Karen Kwiatkowski: Get a life, Mr. Frist!
Click. Justin Raimondo: Go See V for Vendetta. Culture and resistance to imperialism.
Click. Luke Harding: Mozart was more of a prince than a pauper.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Tornado Hits Portuguese Surf Town.
April 4, 2006
Click. Richard Beeston: Most wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi "kicked out as leader" for bloody tactics.
Click. (ADNKI) Jordanian al-Qaeda militant al-Zarqawi is about to be replaced as leader of the coalition of Iraq's insurgent groups by Abdullah ben Rashid al-Baghdadi.
Click. (ITAR TASS) The Iranian military have tested “the world’s fastest torpedo”, the Iranian State Television reports.
Click. (ITAR TASS) North Korea has 3-6 nuke warheads - USFK ex-commander.
Click. Simon Tisdall: Another angry neighbor for Bush -- Peru.
Click. Greg Palast: Chávez declares a new oil order. Venezuela officially demands OPEC recognize his nation's reserves as largest.
Click. Nicholas D. Kristoff: A heroine walking in the shadow of death.
Click. Rachel Kapochunas: Real race in San Diego is courtesy of scandal.
Click. Robert Parry: On Christmas Eve Day 1992, the nation’s history took a turn that blacked out key chapters of the recent past and foreshadowed troubling developments in the future.
Click. (London Times) American scientists have successfully transplanted laboratory-grown bladders made from the patients' own cells.
Click. (BBC) Scientists study "moon catapult".
Click. (London Times) Picasso's Guernica called to its spiritual home.
Click. Abid Ishaq: The fastest growing faith.
Click. (Regnum) New Vegas to emerge in the Kazakh Steppe.
April 3, 2006
Click. (IRNA) Iran fires world's fastest underwater missile.
Click. (Telegraph) High-speed underwater device capable of destroying huge warships, submarines.
Click. Paul Krugman: John and Jerry.
Click. Neil Mackay: American's war on the web. Deep within the Pentagon, technologies are being deployed to wage the war on terror on the internet, in newspapers and even through mobile phones.
Click. (Scotland Herald) Moussaoui. Terrorist or fantasist?
Click. Joseph Cannon: George W. Bush, Barbara Bush, and Aleister Crowley.
Click. Ramzy Baroud: Palestine. Another Nicaragua.
Click. Rebecca Dana: Connie on Katie and ‘Gravitas’: "It’s a chauvinistic word".
Click. Joe Mysak: How lots of little Nazis turned Germany into the Third Reich.
Click. Kate McLaughlin: Mummy-like artifacts tell of life thousands of years ago
Click. Henry K. Lee: Judge Laurel Brady somehow keeps Susan Polk case proceeding. In a trial made for eye-rolling, Brady's supervision praised.
Click. Steve Connor: Gene therapy fixes "incurable" disorder of the immune system.
Click. Helen Branswell: Flu vaccine moves to front burner in Canada.
Click. William Rees-Mogg: A spare £5 million helps if you want to make it to book-collecting heaven.
April 2, 2006
Click. (WaPo) Pressure on Iran could spur terrorist attacks.
Click. (Independent) US and UK establish "enduring" bases in Iraq.
Click. Stephen Magagnini: Early case against Hayats is diminished. Thought to be al-Qaida cell, there are no co-conspirators.
Click. Marc Sandalow, Erin McCormick: Pelosi's goal: Democrats back on top. Minority leader practices hardball politics to position her party for midterm election.
Click. Joseph Cannon: George W. Bush, Barbara Bush, and Aleister Crowley.
Click. Deb Riechmann: Will Bolten aim for White Housecleaning?
Click. Henry K. Lee: Judge Laurel Brady somehow keeps Susan Polk case proceeding. In a trial made for eye-rolling, Brady's supervision praised.
Click. Peter Y. Hong: Dispute in D.A.'s Office Blocks Inmate's Release. Cooley said a battered woman should go free after 23 years in prison. Her lawyers have filed a claim over revocation of the agreement.
Click. Ann Woolner: Why sweat the details of the legal war on terror.
Click. Molly Ivins: Immigration 101.
Click. Bruce Wallace: Cult leader should not be executed, daughters say.
Click. James P. Sweeney: Gaming payout a big money grab. Allocation to counties shows sizable disparity.
Click. Gaye LeBaron: Bodega Bay salmon fishermen pray for a miracle to save their season.
Click. Carl T. Hall: A walk in Muir's footsteps. Changed landscape challenges couple retracing 1868 route.
March 30, 2006
Click. (Reuters) Rice says Iran isolated on nuclear issue.
Click. (Khaleej) Iran begins massive war-games today.
Click. (IRNA) Deputy FM: US cannot put into practice its threats against Iran.
Click. (Regnum) US Embassy in Turkey persuades MPs to support possible actions against Iran?
Click. (Regnum) “Armenian and Azeri presidents will do what the West tells them to”: Nagorno Karabakh press digest.
Click. Juan Cole: Iraq news. Attacks on businesses multiply. Political gridlock continues.
Click. (PakTribune) Mega projects would change fate of masses: Musharraf.
Click. Arianna Huffington: Lobbying reform. Let's cut the family ties.
Click. Mark Jacobson: The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll. A new generation of conspiracy theorists is at work on a secret history of New York’s most terrible day.
Click. Jia-Rui Chong, Denise Gellene: First avian flu vaccine works just half the time.
Click. David Colker: Podcast search mission: Mostly possible.
Click. Stephen Castle: Belgian chocolatiers savor sweet taste of world domination.
Click. Jeremy Page: Bison beefing up for flight to new life in the Ice Age.
March 29, 2006
Click. Doug Thompson: Is deception the best way to serve your country?
Click. Mollie Ivins: Pardoning the Pentagon.
Click. Martin Schram: How Washington really works.
Click. Gareth Porter: Neo-con cabal blocked 2003 nuclear talks.
Click. Andrew Wood: Federal judge restricts disclosure of classified information in Padilla case.
Click. Peter Fimrite: Former Marin County court administrator John Montgomery waives extradition. Arraignment next week on 10 counts of conflict of interest.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Portugal: Inter-religious Respect Serves As World Model.
Click. Kevin Howe: Condor nest spotted in Big Sur.
Click. Steven Edwards: All eyes will be on the first embryonic stem cell therapy tests for humans.
Click. Lindsay Morris: Scientists discover stem cells can repair spine tissue.
Click. Elizabeth Spovoda: Jello-fix for spinal cords.
March 28, 2006
Click. Gary G. Kohls, MD: What would you do if you saw your nation going fascist?
Click. Herbert Docena: The economic restructuring of Iraq.
Click. Ted Burdis: US customs inspectors could be stationed by this fall at the largest seaport in the Bahamas, where the Bush administration is hiring a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo.
Click. Congressman Bart Gordon: Let Congress see the Off-Shoring Jobs Report!
Click. Rep. Henry Waxman: Halliburton's performance worsens under second Iraqi oil contract.
Click. Edmund L. Andrews: Vague law and hard lobbying add up to billions for big oil.
Click. Cynthia H. Cho, Anna Gorman: Los Angeles schools on lock down after massive walk out.
Click. Joe Cannon: If this Card could speak.
Click. Elsa Claro: Only France? Basic summary of a calamity.
Click. R. Scott Moxley: Monsters' ball.
Click. (Johns Hopkins) AIDS, TB, Malaria and Bird Flu spread unchecked in Burma.
Click. David de Sola: Government investigators smuggled radioactive materials (dirty bomb) into US.
Click. Max Blumenthal: Republicanizing the race card.
Click. (London Times) US immigration is a new mass movement.
Click. (Think Progress) Scalia unplugged.
Click. Paul Kelly: Blair in Australia. No peer here.
Click. Michael Gawenda: Hamas leader says, "Yes, we did suicide attacks, but we are not terrorists."
Click. (Azertaj) "Russia - Islamic World" group of strategic vision holds first session.
Click. (Zaman) 8 years of surveillance shocks Merkel.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Immigration Rules Have Me In A Tizzy.
Click. (Interfax) A branch of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline to China will be built.
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March 26, 2006
Click. Richard A. Serrano: 9/11 trial reveals troubles then, and ahead.
Click. (Xymphora) From security clearances to state-controlled press.
Click. Merkel coalition parties on course to win.
Click. Keri Brenner: Former Marin Superior Court Executive Officer John Montgomery was arrested Saturday in Virginia after Marin officials filed a complaint charging him with 10 counts of felony conflict of interest.
Click. Patrick J. McDonnell, Lee Romney: Bolivia Bomb Suspect "Own Worst Enemy". Northern California native served time in state youth and mental facilities and six months in Argentina for a 2005 blast at a bank.
Click. Peter H. King, Mark Arax: The Chandlers,
who owned The Los Angeles Times, were a potent force in shaping the city. But in
a diverse metropolis, such sheer clout no longer exists.
Immigrants' rights: Marches, rallies draw crowds in Santa Barbara and across the country
Santa Barbara County proposing amiable amphibian plan
A Navajo Tale: Canyon de Chelly is home to stone-age history
March 25, 2006
Click. (London Times) Al Qaeda trial lands FBI in dock for criminal ineptitude.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Happiness is a warm gun.
Click. John Breneman: Bush bumbling all over map, see?
Click. (Daily Kos) Joe Wilson slams neocons.
Click. Janet Hook: Right is might for GOP's aspirants.
Click. (Ottowa Citizen) Mohammed Judaid Babar names London terrorists.
Click. (NY Daily News) Ex-FBI handler charged with aiding rubouts.
Click. George B. Sanchez: In a dramatic reversal of policy, the Salinas Union High School District has stopped using its controversial anti-gang behavior contract.
Click. Damien Whitworth: Camilla's tribute to the soldiers who died by her father's side.
Click. (London Times) Van Gogh's favor to fetch $40 million.
Click. Patricia Yollen: Butterfly bungalow. Captives fly freely in new San Francisco Conservatory exhibit.
Click. (Science Daily) We're flying without wing flaps and without a pilot.
March 24, 2006
Click. Norma Cohen: Backlash over new pensions legislation.
Click. David Sharrock, Graham Keeley: The Irish priest who brought Eta killers to peace.
Click. John W. Dean: An update on President Bush's NSA program. The historical context, Specter's recent bill, and Feingold's censure motion.
Click. Barbara G. Baker: More Christians arrested in wake of Afghan apostasy case?
Click. William M. Arkin: Dots: An Apparatus of Domestic Repression?
Click. (BrazzilMag) Agents from the United States Department of Homeland Security will soon be helping Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay combat money laundering and terrorism financing.
Click. Sandro Contenta: Testifying part of rehab process. Syria ordeal "wasn't easy to talk about". EU investigates US "rendition flights".
Click. Miles Wooley: The ageing effects of war.
Click. Anne Woolner: Enron's Glisan, Now an Inmate, Gets No Golden Key.
Click. Hope Yen: FEMA abandons pledge to reopen no-bid Katrina contracts.
Click. Robert Parry: 9/11 and Bush's negligence.
Click. Joseph Cannon: Thankz 2 Neil Bush, kidz is lerning real gud.
Click. Jordan Robinson: Bolivian bomb suspect known to California authorities.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Portugal: There's Something Strange About This Rain.
Click. Thomas H. Maugh: "Virtually untreatable" strain of TB emerges.