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US Climate Security Act and aftermath
June 9, 2008, Comments Off on US Climate Security Act and aftermath

June 9 China Issue to Live on After US Carbon Bill Death (Planet Ark/Reuters) NEW YORK – The US climate bill may b ...

RFK Bobby Kennedy
June 5, 2008, 1 Comment

(Bill Eppridge/LIFE/Time Inc.) November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968 R.F.K., R.I.P., Revisited Earlier in the day, the vast ...

Wednesday Night #1369
May 28, 2008, 1 Comment

An unexpected treat … Chil Heward will be bringing his son Geoffrey, Senior Vice-President and Director of G.F.G. ...

Update — MDA Proposed sale and after
May 22, 2008, 1 Comment

May 22 MDA working with Mars spacecraft (The Gazette) MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said yesterday its engine ...

Wednesday Night #1366 – The Report
May 7, 2008, 1 Comment

We talked about the moon which made me think about Odysseus who must have spent a lot of time looking at it as he was tr ...

Postscript to #1373 – Kurdistan
May 1, 2008, Comments Off on Postscript to #1373 – Kurdistan

PJAK told to stop cross border attacks on Iran (Press TV – Iran) The semi-autonomous Kurdish government of Iraq ha ...

Bush's border fence destroys wilderness
April 3, 2008, Comments Off on Bush's border fence destroys wilderness

GETTY IMAGES Completion of the 670-mile fence on the US-Mexican border would harm endangered species and ‘pristine ...

Are women voters more likely to vote for female candidates?
March 31, 2008, Comments Off on Are women voters more likely to vote for female candidates?

31 March 2008 With thanks to Teresa Chin (Terry) Jones Research published by SAGE in Political Research Quarterly The re ...

Iraq 5 years later
March 24, 2008, Comments Off on Iraq 5 years later

The $3 Trillion War, Josephy Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes (Vanity Fair, April 2008) After wildly lowballing the cost of the ...

Bush administration and dissent
March 24, 2008, Comments Off on Bush administration and dissent

This piece published in December 2003 was forwarded to us recently with the comment: This is one of the most chilling ar ...