Month January 2003

Vatican seeking patron saint of the InternetCast your vote – online of course – at www.santiebeati.it As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up.  

UK bans antiwar rally, forced to eat words “Anti-war rally may shift to The Mall. UK: The government is facing the embarrassing prospect of reversing its ban on an anti-war protest at Hyde Park.” [Guardian Unlimited]

What a “coincidence” From Talking Points Memo “Is there more to the (apparently wrongful) INS pick-up and detention of Brookings scholar Ejaz Haider than we’d been led to believe? On Tuesday Haider was picked up by two armed INS agents in…

Kwon Young Ghil Some fellow Greens and I met today with Kwon Young Ghil, President of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of South Korea prior to a speech he gave today in L.A. at the Korean Immigrants Workers Association. Kwon…

Mandela attacks ‘racist’ Bush Nelson Mandela yesterday launched a contemptuous attack on George Bush, accusing him of racism, an inability to think and a desire to attack Iraq purely for its oil. “If Saddam Hussein was not carrying out the…