Month July 2005

San Diego is so awash in political corruption it’s becoming comical. San Diego’s interim mayor convicted of wire fraud A federal jury convicted San Diego’s interim mayor and a councilman on conspiracy and wire fraud charges on Monday, the latest scandal…

San Diego — They said they were going to protect the borders for the next three weeks, but after only one night in San Diego County, the Minutemen have apparently thrown in the towel.On Saturday six volunteer spotters, some of…

Moqtada Sadr, the radical Iraqi Shia cleric whose militia led uprisings against US troops in Najaf has told the BBC armed “resistance is legitimate”. “The first person who would acknowledge this is the so-called American President Bush who said ‘if…

…or an amazing 9-minute recreation thereof that uses the exact words of the “Downing Street Memo.” This remarkable audio production conveys far more clearly than the written word what went on behind closed doors that day three years ago. They…

Thinktank says war boosts al-Qaida Britain’s involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan contributed to the terrorist attacks in London, a respected independent thinktank on foreign affairs, the Chatham House organisation, says today. In the most politically sensitive finding,…