Day May 12, 2003

Welcome Mr. Secretary Bombs Shake Westerners’ Compounds in Riyadh “Numerous people were wounded when up to four bombs exploded on Monday at Westerners’ compounds in Riyadh — hours before Secretary of State Colin Powell was due to arrive in the…

Politics Texas-style: hardball Democrats in GOP-dominated Texas House stage mass absence to break quorum. “Almost all of the Democratic members of the state House failed to show up Monday morning, preventing the GOP-dominated body from convening because of a lack…

Leo Strauss and the neocons “Odd as this may sound, we live in a world increasingly shaped by Leo Strauss, a controversial philosopher who died in 1973. Although generally unknown to the wider population, Strauss has been one of the…

Hmmm Russia funding resurgent Taliban. Pakistan too, no doubt, as their intelligence operations, virually a government within a government and considered to be world class in what they do, was one of the original backers of the Taliban.

IRA mole outted “The IRA was reeling in shock and panic last night after one of its top members was unmasked as the infamous army spy known as Stakeknife. Alfredo Scappaticci, deputy head of the Provisionals’ internal security unit, the…