Month November 2006

The NYPD police officers who fired 50 times into a car, killing a man to be married that day, claimed he had a gun. He didn’t. The officers have been stripped of their weapons, which is highly unusual, and it…

Rafael Correa, a leftwing economist and ally of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, is trouncing his right wing opponent in the runoff for president of Ecuador.

From BrickBurner Gayle McLaughlin, a member of the City Council and an activist in the Green Party, has officially won the title of mayor of Richmond, CA. Not only is the population of the city 103,000 – the largest mayorality…

The Iraq insurgency is self-funding while the Iraq government is collapsing. Lebanon veers towards civil war. And even a Republican senator is saying the US has lost. Yet there’s still some serious incomprehension about what actually happened. From AmericaBlog, a…

The Ulster Defense Association, a loyalist paramilitary, sent hit squads to detain, or if need be, shoot Michael Stone who they’d learned had gone off his trolley and was going to attack Stormont, thus possibly jeopardizing the Northern Ireland peace…