Day August 22, 2005

Podcast: Organizing for September 24

Ok, I’ve been podcasting speeches and talks by others for a while. Here’s my first podcast – some thoughts on the upcoming Sept. 24 nationwide antiwar demonstrations, how the mood in the country has shifted, and some nuts and bolts…

GOP Senator says Iraq looking like Vietnam

A leading Republican senator and prospective presidential candidate said Sunday that the war in Iraq has destabilized the Middle East and is looking more like the Vietnam conflict from a generation ago. Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, who received two Purple…

Global warming blamed for ice melt

Scientists say global warming is melting one of Canada’s last remaining ice shelves. The edges of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, located about 2,175 miles north of Edmonton, are melting. Ward Hunt is the largest of five separate shelves that…

Brazilians to probe Menezes case

Two senior Brazilian officials are due to arrive in Britain to question the commission investigating the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. Wagner Goncalves, from Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office, and Marcio Pereira Pinto Garcia, of the Ministry of Justice, hoped…