Bob Morris

More on Saudi money leaving the U.S. Disgruntled Saudis have pulled tens of billions of dollars out of the US, signalling a deep alienation from America. One analyst said the total funds withdrawn by individual investors amount to $200bn. Other…

Will Monica Lewinsky be his first guest? Clinton In Talk Show Negotiations With CBS. “Associates of Bill Clinton and executives from CBS are involved in negotiations to make the former president the host of a daily afternoon talk show,” the…

Dollar falls as Saudi investors ‘withdraw billions’.  The dollar today fell from recent highs against the euro and yen following a report that Saudi investors were pulling billions of dollars out of the US. This is precisely what the Federal Reserve…

Stampede to the center The Year Politics Got Serious. Will 2002 be dubbed “the year politics got serious?” Tuesday’s primary defeat of Rep. Bob Barr (and probably also Rep. Cynthia McKinney) — polar opposites on the political spectrum, but equally…

Terrorism To be somewhat cynical, terrorism is when people you don’t like are blowing things up.  Then they are unprincipled cowards afraid to come out and fight fair.  However, when our side does it, we tend to be more forgiving, viewing them as…

The Death Convoy of Afghanistan. Newsweek magazine is reporting, in a cover story in this weeks issue, that Afghan Northern Alliance forces, allied to the USA, have committed probable war crimes in their treatment of prisoners captured at Konduz. [kuro5hin.org]