"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Environmental issues scarcely make the top of the news unless a disaster occurs, such as Hurricane Stan, or unless a homicide claims an activist, such as Parota Dam opponent Tomás Cruz Zamora. So it is not surprising that the Mexican…
Half of the world’s coral reefs may die within the next 40 years unless urgent measures are taken to protect them from climate change, the World Conservation Union warns in a new report released today. Warming ocean temperatures are causing…
"We will be searching for a bottom in gas prices in the next few weeks and based on where we have been, that bottom will look pretty good," said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for the Oil Price Information Service,…
For the first time, a majority of Americans believe the Iraq war was the "wrong thing to do", according to a poll published in The Wall Street Journal. 2,000 US dead, and tens of thousands of Iraqis, mostly non-combatants, dead…
A furious George Galloway today challenged US senators to charge him with perjury over claims that he solicited money from Saddam Hussein’s oil-for-food programme and lied about it under oath. The US Senate inquiry into the Bethnal Green and Bow…
From a BBC photo gallery Mrs Parks’ legacy Mrs Parks died on 24 October 2005, aged 92. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said her legacy would never die. "I am leaving this legacy to all of you," she said in…
From Global Guerrillas The triple suicide attack on the Palestine hotel in Baghdad is an interesting new example of Fear Vector Management. Chris Allbritton puts an interesting twist on this: This means they knew where the cameras are. They know…