D.C. scandal with tentacles

The plot is over the top and ever-expanding. The cast of characters is so convoluted you’ll need a map, a calculator and a wall chart to keep up. Lobbyists. Indian tribes. Casinos. Religious conservatives. Antitax crusaders. Tens of millions of…

Curry-Winer split

It’s public and irrevocable now. The podfathers, Adam Curry and Dave Winer, have seriously gone their separate ways. The split at root may have been over money, but the stress lines have been there for months. It was compunded by…

Publish the memo

The Times of London has mentioned Blair Watch and their "I’ll publish the al-Jazeera memo" campaign Nearly 200 British bloggers say that they are ready to break the Official Secrets Act and go to jail to publish a memo that…

Those darned tricksters

The FBI has reopened an inquiry into one of the most intriguing aspects of the pre-Iraq war intelligence fiasco: how the Bush administration came to rely on forged documents linking Iraq to nuclear weapons materials as part of its justification…

Jolly Jack

Who Is Jack Abramoff? If you haven’t heard of Jack Abramoff already, you will before long. He is the central figure in a burgeoning scandal that is entangling several members of Congress, some Executive Department officials and a number of…

Telling the truth

 From Don’t Bomb, a blog by al-Jazeera staffers. This is an old Al Jazeera poster – the picture is of our office in Bagdad, seconds after the bombing that killed Tareq Ayoub. The caption reads:"Al Jazeera Channel has never shied…

Mass transit slowly comes to LA

The new Orange Line here in LA runs close to where we live. It’s a dedicated busway running on what used to be a train track, stopping only at major intersections, and ends at the North Hollywood subway station. From…