Luis Posada Carriles, a CIA-trained Cuban exile implicated in a series of terrorist incidents, applied for political asylum in the United States yesterday, prompting at least one congressman to assert that granting the request would undermine the nation’s credibility in…

High gas prices, long waits bring used Prius prices above list price of a new model, study says. I have a 2001 Prius, 46 mpg in LA traffic. Long live hybrids! And in other signs of the times, gas is…

Masri said he was kidnapped in Macedonia, beaten by masked men, blindfolded, injected with drugs and flown to Afghanistan, where he was imprisoned and interrogated by U.S. intelligence agents. He said he was finally dumped in the mountains of Albania.…

Cardinal Bernard Law, whose failures to stop sexually abusive priests sparked the worst crisis in American church history, led a Mass for thousands mourning Pope John Paul II at St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday after police whisked away a victim…

From a Marxist listserv comes this reasoned response to Peter Camejo’s article, ‘The Crisis in the Green Party” (see next post.) The primary thought here is why isn’t Camejo isn’t doing anything to stop the Cobbites except raise the alarm, something…

By Peter Camejo. Green Party candidate for California governor (twice), VP candidate for Nader in 2004. Camejo details precisely how Cobb supporters stacked the convention to get the 2004 nomination, have taken over the party, are decidedly Democratic-friendly, and opposed to…