Month November 2005

Colin Powell aide on Cheney

Quote of the Day "Otherwise I have to declare him a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard." — Former Colin Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson, in an interview with the AP, on how he might describe Vice President…

More on al-Jazeera bombing memo

From a meeting last night in London Present at The Frontline Club were Wadah Khanfar, Director-General of Al Jazeera, in town to get answers from a government that’s gone all quiet on us; and Kevin Maguire, associate editor of the…

The Abramoff mushroom cloud

The sky really may be falling in for Congress. Michael Scanlon, a Republican political operative, publicist and former press spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, pled guilty November 21 to conspiring with lobbyist Jack Abramoff to bribe a Republican…

Why shortsighted greed is dumb

Arctic booms as climate change melts polar ice cap The global hunger for oil is fuelling a new gold rush. Wa-hoo! Let’s go make big bucks drilling in the Arctic – for a few years at least – until everything…

Tookie Williams interview

Q. The media has made much of the fact that you have never apologized to the murder victims’ families in your case. If I had the opportunity to talk to any victims’ family members, I would say that I can…