Meanwhile, We’re Loaning the Elephants Out!
"On a related matter, the Ehrlich administration, in MD, is looking to sell the state owned 30-story World Trade Center building, located at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. A critic blasted the proposal as a "fire sale." Now, doesn't this sound familiar? Does the word "Oligarch" ring a bell?"
Shirin Ebadi’s Nobel Peace Prize Highlights Tension in Iran
"The decision to award the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi, the intrepid Iranian human rights lawyer and former judge, took everyone by surprise -- not least Ebadi herself."
The precarious triangle
"But even if Damascus shuts down the bases of these militant organizations--Hamas and Islamic Jihad--their violent anti-Israel activities in the occupied territories and in Israel would hardly be reduced; nor would the Israeli-Palestinian impasse be resolved."
Is the U.S. Media Objective? :: A view from the Middle East ::
"One of the major lobbies that leads the mainstream media is the corporations, especially those that produce weapons."
Cut Losses: Leave Iraq
"The only way to let the air out of the resistance is to quickly turn Iraq back to the Iraqis and withdraw U.S. forces. The violence arises primarily as a reaction to the invasion and occupation by a foreign superpower."
