President Carlos Mesa announced that he would resign as road blocks and demonstrations targeting multinational firms wracked Bolivia. This match may have been lit in 2000 when Bechtel privatized the water company in Cochabamba and water prices quadrupled. This set off huge…

Google pollutes links stream with evil precedent for market censorship Proposed search tool redirects links on blogs abridging author intent and meaning In this 12 minute Video Blogmash the Better Bad News panel re-mixes commentary and analysis of a pending…

The billboard will be at Sunset and Virgil, near the assembly point for the March 19 LA antiwar march and rally at Hollywood and Vine. It will be there Mar. 10-19th.  Thousands of people will pass this very busy intersection and see…

The weather is now beautiful, sunny, about 75. Malo, our turtle who lives in a little pond in the backyard is happily sunning himself. He’s got a 10″ carapace and is a Red Slider turtle. They get their name from…

Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian reporter wounded on March 4 by U.S.-led forces after she was freed from her captors in Iraq, said the military may have targeted her deliberately. Sgrena, 57, who had been held for one month in captivity,…

Journalist calls shots unjustified Wounded Italian’s account differs from that of U.S. “We weren’t going very fast, given the circumstances. It was not a checkpoint, but a patrol that started firing right after lighting up a spotlight. The firing was…

From the International Herald Tribune What’s missing from News in the United States is the news. On ABC, Peter Jennings devotes two hours of prime time to playing peek-a-boo with UFO fanatics, a whorish stunt crafted to deliver ratings, not…