6th Fleet Flagship to Lebanon
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The U.S. Navy’s 6th Fleet flagship, the USS Mount Whitney, sails this week for an unscheduled deployment toward Lebanon and Cyprus to support Navy ships already at sea, Navy … [Keep reading >>]
Hmmm….
The U.S. Navy’s 6th Fleet flagship, the USS Mount Whitney, sails this week for an unscheduled deployment toward Lebanon and Cyprus to support Navy ships already at sea, Navy … [Keep reading >>]
In more desperate gambling by our losing Presidential gang, Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne, forced by court order to do something, declared the Polar Bear a threatened species under the … [Keep reading >>]
Nicholas Kristoff managed to get into Tibet recently.
I sneaked through these Tibetan areas in Gansu and Qinghai Provinces, eluding the troops by taking a local car with curtains pulled over … [Keep reading >>]
“A long-delayed trial of C.I.A. operatives and former top Italian intelligence officials moved forward here on Wednesday, as a judge ruled that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could be called to … [Keep reading >>]
Haaretz has a clear message for Bush as he feebly attempts to get peace talks re-energized: “The realization of this aspiration of the right-wing groups will leave not a single … [Keep reading >>]
Rob Christensen in the Raleigh News and Observer reflects on what different the Edwards endorsement is likely to make: “Although the endorsement’s timing was a surprise, Edwards said during the … [Keep reading >>]
As reported by James Nash and Alan Johnson of the Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann resigned yesterday afternoon, just hours after the inspector general’s office launched a raid … [Keep reading >>]
The Joshua Green, Atlantic article on Obama and Silicon valley I mentioned the other day is on-line now. Pretty interesting stuff. … [Keep reading >>]
Todd Gitlin is in Israel for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state. He has heard, and reports on, some very alarming “intimations” about Iran, its nuclearity … [Keep reading >>]
— John Edwards gave his long-awaited endorsement to Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday, bolstering Mr. Obama’s efforts to rally the Democratic Party around his candidacy and offering potential help in … [Keep reading >>]
The damn foot draggers and obstructors of progress are always caviling about dams being build on fault lines. What if they break?! What about the people downstream?! … [Keep reading >>]