Month March 2005

Former Secretary of State James Baker, a close ally of the Bush family, broke ranks with the Bush administration on Thursday and called for the United States to get serious about global warming. Finally, a split in the neocon elite…

From Left i on the News This time they’re not coming for you; will you speak up before they do? The Dept. of Homeland Insecurity is “is experimenting with a controversial new method to keep better track of immigrants who…

As President Bush stepped up U.S. demands Wednesday that Syria pull its troops out of Lebanon, a senior administration official was cautioning Congress that the militant party Hezbollah could gain new power in upcoming Lebanese elections. Well duh. Hezbollah has…

Joschka Fisher, German Foreign Minister and a Green, is probably the most popular politician in the country. However he is currently under withering attack for a bungled visa program that he accepts responsibility for. If he is forced to resign,…

And what might “extraordinary rendition” be? A superb version of a classic song or symphony, perhaps? Well no, it’s the latest Happy-Face-sounding phrase from the neocons, all scrubbed-up and squeaky-clean, to describe odious criminal behavior which they sanction. Extraordinary rendition is…