Category: Politics

With many Democrats frothing at the mouth over Nader’s announcement and an indication via The Nation that:

Upping the ante in the issue of gay marriage, Dearmary.com allows sending Mary Cheney, openly lesbian daughter of Dick Cheney a postcard to ask her why she is tacitly supporting her fathers anti-gay position. The questions to Mary might not be comfortable, but neither is living a life being denied human dignities like hospital visitation,…

Needless to say, there wasn’t great fanfare in the corporate press that the first Green Prime Minister has taken power in Latvia after the center-right coalition there collapsed.

In an interview with the L.A. Weely, former Lieutenant-Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski argued there were three reasons for invading Iraq:

The Observer is running a story on a leaked report that has come from the Pentagon predicting that climate change will threaten security of the U.S. and other nations as natural disasters and loss of arable land threaten the economic stability of nations. It predicts that climate change will be a greater threat than terrorism…

A site I just discovered, Electronic Intifada has an article with maps showing the extent of the apartheid wall being erected inside the west bank. It’s worthwhile to examine just how much of a land grab this wall actually constitutes.

Stepping up the backlash, Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights lawsuit is being appealed by the woman who apparently used the pseudonym Roe in the original case.

An insight into the nationalities of the Guantanamo Bay detainees. It is interesting to note that the Australian David Hicks, one of those held at Guantanamo bay is considered in this report as the highest profile case. That is a really scary thought, since coverage of his condition is censored, and marginal at best, and…