Your Baghdad weather report Thursday will be 116, however a cooling trend will lower temperatures to a mere 104 within a few days. The electricity, and thus the air conditioning, is still sporadic. City residents, who normally sleep on the flat…

Hmmmm Not a single Chechen has been found among the dead gunmen who took children hostage in Beslan last week, Sergei Ivanov, Russia’s defence minister, told the Guardian yesterday. “About half of the 32 terrorists have been identified and we…

The Green Party unravels from withinCounterPunch details, using Oregon as an example, how the Green Party is self-destructing. The David Cobb nomination was so divisive that it is indeed questionable if the GP can continue as a national force. The ruptures are everywhere.…

Cheney is certifiably insane The presidential campaign spiked to a new level of rhetorical heat Tuesday when Vice President Cheney warned that a vote for Democrat John Kerry could bring terrorist attacks on the USA. And it’s only the day…

Cali sues Diebold for fraud California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said on Tuesday he would sue electronic voting machine maker Diebold Inc. on charges it defrauded the state with false claims about its products.

 Senator Graham book: Inquiry into 9/11, Saudi ties blocked Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional…

Another poll has Kerry-Bush dead even The Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 47% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 47%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern. The “Bush bounce” is…