Month: April 2005

Cross-posted at DailyKos. What an opener for the WaPo story today on Karen Hughes and Dina Powell’s new “mission impossible”: The Bush administration’s outreach to the Islamic world is in no hurry. And it...

In theory the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) should be among the richest countries on earth. Its vast territory virtually brims with cobalt, copper, cadmium, oil, industrial and gem diamonds, coltan,gold, silver, zinc,...

In the current issue of the New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg explains why Republican House Members are reluctant to see Tom DeLay go: Republican members want to continue being led by the Texas bug exterminator turned hard-right...

Last week we had a special commemorative issue of this diary series for Robert Creeley, which can be found here.  By clicking on that link, and similar links located above the fold in each diary in this series, you can...

Iran said Monday some 200 people were arrested in ethnic unrest in its southwest in recent days and closed the offices of the Arab language Al Jazeera television channel, accusing it stirring up trouble. At least one person died...