A new draft US defense paper calls for preventive nuclear strikes against state and non-state adversaries in order to deter them from using weapons of mass destruction and urges US troops to “prepare to use nuclear weapons effectively.” Let’s get…

It’s like a banana republic, isn’t it? Hundreds of mercenaries have descended on New Orleans to guard the property of the city’s millionaires from looters. The heavily armed men, employed by private military companies including Blackwater and ISI, are part…

Factoids: After offering podcasts on iTunes for two months, it has 7 million podcast subscriptions. 30% of cars will offer iPod connectivity in the US in 2006. This is HUGE for podcasting.

Many are stunned and reeling from Katrina; from the devastation, the grotesquely inadequate response of the government, the hundreds of thousands of homeless, and from the now obvious fact that millions of Americans live in poverty and are ignored by…

Specter won’t quiz Roberts on abortion

Oil and gas production in the Gulf is starting to come back, however the major problem area is the refineries, many of which are down with flooded and disabled machinery, no power, no roads, and no work force. Because the…

A restaurant in north-east China has been raided and closed for listing stir fried-tiger meat on its menu, a dish that turned out to be donkey dressed with tiger urine.