Not to fear, the tigers are Buddhists Taking their tigers for a walk is all in a day’s work for a group of Thai monks who have given 10 of the wild animals sanctuary, saying they have nothing to fear…

A lawyer looks at the Rumsfeld hearing I have watched the Rumsfeld hearings with interest and despair. I don’t know what’s worse: obvious lies by Rumsfeld, or the inability of a single member of the Congressional committee to conduct even…

Kerry slips behind Bush as California race turns tight Nader is polling 10% in California, and indeed, a quick scan of various polls shows him polling about 5-7% nationwide. Yo Kerry, maybe it’s time to stop being a nonentity cipher.…

Nader /Camejo 2004? From a public Green email list “Nader is going to announce his VP choice before the <National Green Party> Milwaukee convention. Word is that <Peter> Camejo is on the very short list.” The above, while unconfirmed, is…

A hero retires from public service Nelson Mandela gives farewell speech to parliament As he stepped down from the platform for the very last time, the assembly chamber erupted into applause, chanting and singing.

More prisons where torture happened? Reports are surfacing now of similar treatment at another U.S. detention center in Iraq called Camp Bucca. According to these reports, Iraqi prisoners in Camp Bucca were beaten, humiliated, hogtied, and had scorpions placed on…

Army Times says Rumsfeld should resign The independent Army Times newspaper, read widely in the U.S. military, on Monday suggested Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Pentagon civilian and military leaders should be removed over the Iraq prisoner abuse…