Protestors seize Kyrgyzstan’s second city

Opposition protesters, using clubs and petrol bombs, seized Kyrgyzstan’s second city, Osh, Monday as increasingly violent unrest swept the south of the country aimed at forcing President Askar Akayev to step down. An obviously stolen election sparked the protests, which…

WaPo calls bloggers the secret police

From Scripting News Tina Brown: “Bloggers are the new Stasi,” or the East German secret police during the Cold War. They actually ran this piece in the Washington Post. The reporters have had a free ride all our lives, the…

Global warming enters the national consciousness

A year ago, global warming was dismissed as leftie fringe stuff. Now, mainstream media in the US is acknowledging global warming is real and happening. This is a huge change! Of course, all other industrialized nations, Europe, Asia, etc. accepted…

March 19 march and rally in L.A.

Podcast. Ron “Born on the Fourth of July” Kovic speaks at the rally. (mp3. 6:25 min. 2.2 MB.) It was a long, worthwhile day. I was at the ANSWER office at 8:30 am to help load the trucks, then it…

March 19!

I’m off to help organize the March 19 march and rally in Hollywood today. Photos and maybe a podcast when I return!

Irish war could revive if IRA disbands

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, under intense U.S. and domestic pressure, repeatedly said in the United States this week he believes the Irish Republican Army may eventually wither away or disband. But he stressed that it must happen gradually to…

Lil’ Kim guilty of perjury

She could get 20 years but will probably “only” do 5 years for lying about a shoot-out. The people who actually fired the guns got 10-12 years. Something seems seriously out out of kilter, you ask me. Like Martha Stewart,she went down…