Month June 2006

A time for third parties to emerge

Democrats divided over the war in Iraq The Democratic Party’s split over the Iraq war cracked into view Tuesday as liberals hissed New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s opposition to setting a date for U.S. troops’ withdrawal and cheered Massachusetts Sen.…

Business is booming!

Afghan opium poppies in full bloom Experts forecast a heroin harvest that is both a record for Afghanistan and embarrassing for the western funded war on drugs. Not that any of the players actually want to stop the highly lucrative…

A piss poor apology

[London] Police have apologised for the “hurt” they caused to two brothers arrested on suspicion of terrorism – one of whom was shot during the raid on their home. Both were released without being charged with anything. Police only apologized…

EU lawmakers back report on CIA terror kidnappings

EU lawmakers backed accusations on Monday that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had kidnapped and illegally held terrorism suspects on EU territory and flown them to countries that used torture. That is, the CIA specifically sent them to those countries…

South Central Farmers being evicted

They created the largest urban farm in America. The owner of the land wants to sell it. The farmers have refused to leave. Dozens are camping there, some living in trees, in protest. Early this morning ‘hundreds’ of police moved…