Month: May 2005

Vietnamese police have sent a singer/actress to “re-education camp” in a widening crackdown on rampant prostitution, just months after she created a scandal with a home-made sex video, state newspapers said on...

Atrios and Kos have both highlighted the latest Gallup poll that presents Hillary Clinton as the leader of the pack for 2008. I see no point in linking to it because I’m sure you’ve all see the info. I do, however,...

I’ve written 2 diaries already about my email conversation with Col. (USMC, retired) Pappas, one yesterday, and one earlier today.  Read those if you’d like more details about our email conversation. As promised...

The worldwide shitstorm unleashed by last year’s revelations of abuse of Iraqis at the hands of Americans at Abu Ghraib is due to be revisited, but this time the magnitude of outrage will undoubtedly be much higher....

“[T]he WHO is so reliant” on “wealthy-donor money,” writes Laurie Garrett, “its mission is swayed — in too many directions — by those countries’ agendas, ideologies and pet...