Iraq slams U.S. detentions, immunity for troops . Iraq’s justice minister has condemned the U.S. military for detaining thousands of Iraqis for long periods without charge and wants to change a U.N. resolution that gives foreign troops immunity from Iraqi…

The new head of FEMA is the bozo who advised Americans to protect themselves against biological attack by using duct tape. Mr Paulison was the official who urged Americans to stock up on duct tape and plastic sheeting in 2003…

Dead Prez and KRS-One were set to headline a concert in LA to raise money for Katrina evacuees. LAPD shut it down for no reason, no reason at all, except to intimidate.

Here’s what Sue did yesterday while trapped in the elevator during the power outage. (She posted it on the John Heron Project bulletin board, a fine literary site hosted by our pal Wood in Wales.)

A jury convicted two men of murder on Monday but deadlocked on the fate of a third man in the retrial of three defendants charged with killing a 17-year-old transgender teenager in October 2002. The two – Michael W. Magidson…

Last year, Ray Davies of the Kinks was shot while in New Orleans. He wrote this for the Times of London. During my initial week-long stay in hospital and lengthy recuperation, I observed first-hand the bankruptcy of the New Orleans…