Month: November 2005

Latest Downing Street Leaks are Serious

After reading the latest from Raw Story about the fracas over Bush’s desire to bomb al-Jazeera, I just want to say a few things. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. According to Raw Story: The memo alleges that...

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First Light

The column below  appears in the Nov. 25 edition of The Moscow Times. Last week, America’s troubled sleep was shattered by a trumpet blast of truth sounding deep in Washington’s corridors of power, where the...

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another invisible Chinese disaster

4 million residents of Harbin, China are without water due to a chemical spill in Jilin province. The 80-kilometre (50-mile) long toxic slick is moving down the Songua River towards Russia, causing the evacuation of villages,...

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