Damascus – Syria’s highest political body, the National Progressive Front, on Sunday rejected a UN report implicating Damascus in the killing of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri as a distortion of the truth. The report drawn up by German judge…

A Republican senator said Sunday that it would be appropriate for any White House aide to step aside if indicted in the CIA leak investigation. The grand jury term expires Friday. Thus the indictments (and I assume there will be…

China will shut its borders if there is a single case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the country, its deputy health minister has said. As bird flu entered Britain yesterday with the discovery of the virus in a…

This happened faster than I thought.I’m moving this blog to a new ISP and the WordPress platform. Due to the vagaries of the Internet, it may take a few days for you to get to the new site.And away we…

The NY Times is now running and leaking all sorts of stuff bashing Judith Miller. Like they didn’t know she was fronting for BushCo all along. Like they didn’t support her completely when she was one of the earliest and…

Britain could be left paralysed by energy shortages, a health crisis and gridlock on the roads if the predicted Arctic winter strikes with severity. Concern has been mounting since the Meteorological Office took the unprecedented step of issuing a long-range…

As mentioned, this blog will be migrating to the WordPress platform sometime in the next several days. There’s a zillion little details to handle; creating the new look and feel of the site, notifying blogsearch engines of the new rss…