Month December 2003

Dean is now the assumed candidate Gore ‘backs Dean for Democrats’. The former vice president is to endorse Howard Dean as the US Democrats’ best choice to run in 2004. This endorsement by Gore signifies that Howard Dean now has…

Another day, another car bomb Car Bomb Wounds 41 U.S. Troops in Iraq. Meanwhile, three U.S. soldiers died in an accident when an embankment collapsed beneath their armored personnel carriers north of Baghdad.

German Green Party not really Green any more The Green Party started in Germany, and Greens hold major political posts at the national level. However German Greens recently supported putting German troops on foreign soil (for the first time since…

Stephen King: forget piracy, boomers are just tired of buying crap Stephen King: forget piracy, boomers are just tired of buying crap Stephen King’s editorial in the new Entertainment Weekly (not online, but the best part is below) opines that…

We are everywhere: The irresistible rise of global anticapitalism <This new book> tells the tale of what is commonly known as “the anti-globalization movement.” Except that most Westerners get that term wrong. The antiglobalizers aren’t just a handful of white…