Bomb at Italian base in Iraq kills at least 25 Insurgents bombed an Italian military police headquarters in the southern town of Nasiriyah Wednesday, killing at least 25 people. Italian officials said they feared the death toll it would rise. At…

Israel Supreme Court lifts ban on “Jenin, Jenin” Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a ban on public screenings of an Israeli Arab director’s film about one of the most hotly debated military confrontations of the 3-year-old Palestinian uprising. “Jenin,…

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We shall not be McMoved Merriam-Webster stands its McGround. Despite having taken down its Web defintion of McJob, Merriam-Webster has now publicly announced that it will not remove McJob from the print and pay-for-click versions of the dictionary. “For more…

Nobody died when Clinton lied We have received another message from the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel who sometimes lurks at NobodyDied.com, a site chronicling antiwar freeway signs. “I firmly believe that if everybody in this country who thought the war is a…

Soros declares war on Bush Multi-billionaire George Soros just upped the ante, giving 5 million to MoveOn.org, furthering his campaign to insure Bush is not reeelected. George Soros, one of the world’s richest men, has given away nearly $5 billion…

Chomsky says Bush will need to invent a crisis to get reelected U.S. linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky said on Wednesday that President Bush will have to “manufacture” another threat to American security to win reelection in 2004 after…