Month: June 2007

Send lawyers, guns and money.  Dad, get me out of this. — Warren Zevon On Monday, Iraq’s Parliament voted to remove its speaker, Mahmoud Mashhadani.  As Josh Partlow of the Washington Post informs us,...

The Group of Eight (G8) summit was held last week in Germany; on the last day the member nations met with African leaders to address HIV/AIDS.By Eesha Pandit. For the past week the leaders of the world's most powerful...

Sharmila Devi and Harvey Morris in Jerusalem published this report on June 4 2007 in the London Financial Times. The map of the West Bank displayed above, 40 years after its occupation by Israel in the Six Day War, provides a...

The rise in prices is hurting working class and lower-income families the most, as they have less disposable income to shift to transportation costs. This means that the high prices are cutting into other necessary spending,...

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane & My Left Wing click to enlargeThe thing that bugs me about Hillary is her inability to say something straight. In this respect she reminds me a lot of McCain but without the nutty...