Month: August 2006

[Notes:  This was written by testvet6778 and was originally posted in orange.  As the topic is, I believe, generally not known by some/many and extremely important, I am re-posting it here. It is also in the process of...

Remember that US/French compromise resolution in the Security Council calling for a ceasefire? The Speaker of Lebanon’s parliament has rejected it. Not a big surprise really, since the Lebanese government includes...

Dan Balz on the stakes: A victory by businessman Ned Lamont on Tuesday would confirm the growing strength of the grass-roots and Internet activists who first emerged in Howard Dean’s presidential campaign. Driven by...

Promoted by Steven D. with minor edit.  Mexico’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (known as the Trife) has decided to rejected the full recount of the country’s 130,000 precincts, and only limit the count to 11,839...

[Note]: This diary is the next installment of 10 Stories the World Should Hear More About as identified by the United Nations for 2006, a Booman Tribune Group Project suggested and coordinated by ManEegee. They are far from the...