Month: February 2006

You knew there would be something coming to draw press attention off the real news; it appears to have arrived.   AUSTIN – AP – A University of Texas student found a substance that has tested positive for ricin,...

Dexter Filkins reviews Paul Bremer’s new book: The most startling moment in “My Year in Iraq,” L. Paul Bremer III’s memoir from his days as the head of the American occupation, comes near the end, when...

If I told you that there was a global environmental cycle that humanity had seriously affected, with potentially catastrophic effects, you’d say, “Sure – the carbon cycle; carbon dioxide and methane emissions...

Keith Barratt’s column The Sanitized Horrors of Guantánamo Bay begins simply: “The United States and Iran share an expression of public opinion, one that still causes considerable distress to the majority of...

Jason Leopold at TruthOut has possibly explosive revelations on the Plame affair. Here’s a teaser: The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. Senior aides had sent...