Month July 2005

The Irish Republican Army said Thursday that it was giving up its armed struggle for a united Ireland and agreeing to turn solely to political methods. Slugger O’Toole, a blog covering politics in Northern Ireland, is a bit skeptical. IRA…

The top US commander in Iraq has predicted that the US-led coalition could start withdrawing troops early next year IF political progress remained on track and the insurgency did not escalate.

Blowback: The unintended, negative consequences of one’s actions. The phrase came from WWI when poison gas launched by one side blew back upon them when the wind shifted.  The document proposes an explicitly Islamic state with a strong Shiite Muslim identity…

An elaborate re-creation of the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Devin Brown, staged on a vacant lot in Granada Hills by the LAPD with help from Hollywood experts, casts doubts on a central justification for the shooting: that the officer…

Something has gone seriously wrong in the garden! “It lives, Dr Frankenstein, it LIVES…”