We should all be happy when one more person sees the light, the light so brightly burning lo these 6 years, especially someone so responsible for the mess we’re in. … [Keep reading >>]

Count me for the moment as a weepy-hearted liberal. Shada Hassoun, Iraqi on her father’s side, raised in Morocco and Paris, just won the Middle East version of American … [Keep reading >>]

Sydney, Australia’s largest city, has a foreshadowing, anti-celebration, for climate change.

Throughout the city of about 4 million people, residents turned off the lights for one hour in an event organized … [Keep reading >>]

As reported by Zaffar Abbas in Pakistan’s Dawn Newspaper, Taliban influences have been creeping closer and closer to the center of Pakistani political and social life: “A number of people … [Keep reading >>]

Writing in Madison’s Capital Times, John Nichols issues his latest call for the removal of the president: “Does this mean Bush and Cheney will be impeached? That, of course, will … [Keep reading >>]

Obama was recently in Las Vegas for a health care forum. As reported by J. Patrick Coolican and Michael J. Mishak of the Las Vegas Sun, his less-than-stellar performance … [Keep reading >>]

The BBC’s Paul Reynolds analyses Iranian and British options as the idea for a trial for the seized sailors is floated: “But reports from Iran also indicate a level of … [Keep reading >>]

Climatologists Secure Funding To Breed Glaciers In Captivity

“FAIRBANKS, AK—Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration received a $42 million federal grant for a captive-glacier breeding project that will attempt … [Keep reading >>]

“Average temperatures in California rose almost one degree Celsius (nearly two degrees Fahrenheit) during the second half of the 20th century, with urban areas blazing the way to warmer conditions, … [Keep reading >>]

Scarecrow, over at FireDogLake, picks up the Authoritarian theme we posted with Glen Greenwald’s piece the other day. He adds notes from Brzezinski’s Op-Ed piece, which we’ve also commented … [Keep reading >>]

Senator John McCain’s hallucinatory statements on Tuesday and Wednesday that it was safe to stroll around Baghdad these days failed to mention that many of these strolls were directly into … [Keep reading >>]

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette finds no reason to believe that the latest Pentagon disclosures on the Tillman death are any more believable than the last ones: “This time the result is … [Keep reading >>]