Month: March 2006

Nigerian oil production falls to 25%

Nigeria’s oil production capacity has been cut to 631,000 barrels per day (bpd), or some 25 percent of the country’s total output, following attacks on a major pipeline belonging to Italy oil giant Agip. According to...

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The Returning Dead

Tonight’s {McNeil-Lehrer} NewsHour finished with a poem in place of the parade of lonely portraits of the dead.  I found both the poem and its presentation moving, and I am taking the liberty of quoting it in full...

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Washington Pravda editorial

Washinton Post Pravda apparently gave the honor of writing an editorial to the fresh writer Domenich boy. How else would you explain this unapologetic ass licking: Mr. Bush Unvarnished PRESIDENT BUSH should hold more news...

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