Bush prepares to shoot self in foot The message of Bush’s much-anticipated address <to the U.N. today> will be unbending, U.S. officials told NBC News. “We will be successful in Iraq with or without the U.N.,” one of the officials…

Dollar gets whacked The dollar hit a near three-year low on Monday against the yen after markets read a Group of Seven call for flexible exchange rates as a sign that Japan may hesitate to weaken its currency to boost…

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Attorney General John Ashcroft today made it tougher for federal prosecutors to strike plea bargains with criminal defendants, requiring attorneys to seek the most serious charges possible in almost all cases.

The more you know, the less you trust him Let’s see Wesley Clark announced he is running for President as an antiwar candidate then immediately said he would have voted for the Iraq invasion. The very next day he said whoops,…

Heroic kangaroo bounds to rescue Marsupials latest: A partially-sighted pet kangaroo was today hailed as a hero after helping to rescue a farmer who suffered serious head injuries when he was hit by a falling branch.

Oh dear, we’ve gone and upset DubyaBush calls criticism of war ‘uncivil’

Medea Benjamin on the WTO and Iraq Medea Benjamin, founder of Global Exchange and co-founder of Code Pink spoke Sunday at The Onion, a Unitarian Universalist Church in L.A. with a decades long commitment to progressive organizing and causes. She…