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"According to the editors, the current thrown-together look of the Web site will soon be tweaked as a long-overdue plan to spruce up its layout is now in an advanced stage. In the coming months and years, Debkafile intends to expand into more fields and languages; increase its specialized staff of reporters, editors, and analysts; and further build its customized base of individual and corporate clients who are willing to pay to receive the publication's reporting, in more detail, before anyone else."
pestilence
"DeWitt's organization has filed suit in US federal court on behalf of 10,000 Ecuadorian peasant farmers and Amazonian Indians charging Lombardi's company with torture, infanticide and wrongful death for its role in the aerial spraying of highly toxic pesticides in the Amazonian jungle, along the border of Ecuador and Colombia. DynCorp's chances of squirming out the suit were dealt a crushing blow in January when federal judge Richard Roberts denied the company's motion to dismiss the case on grounds that their work in Colombia involved matters of national security."
international style
"These cold war assumptions, both ideological and power-political, will have to be dispensed with if we are to develop some means of controlling armed conflict. It is also evident that the US has failed, and will inevitably fail, to impose a new world order (of any kind) by unilateral force, however much power relations are skewed in its favour at present, and even if it is backed by an (inevitably shortlived) alliance. The international system will remain multilateral and its regulation will depend on the ability of several major units to agree with one another, even though one of these states enjoys military predominance."
winning smile
i was busy watching stories of the ancient nefertiti while a modern version was reveling in her own golden moment.
say it aint sasha
was the bush-cohen photo-op just a cattle call for the beef industry?
dog tired
"howling at where lay lays his head and wondering where sullivans is"
georgia on my mind
the pentagon in the transcaucusas
next stop: georgia
anti-terrorising georgia
us to assist georgia in anti-terror
break his crown
"[Editor's Note: The following is a speech that Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Congressman from Cleveland, Ohio, gave this past weekend at the University of Southern California. Rep. Kucinich is the leader of the Progressive Caucus and a longtime defender of free speech, civil liberties and international peace. This speech makes him the first member of the United States Congress to openly repudiate President Bush's war rationale.]"
dont cry for me
"It's already hard to be a whistle-blower. This incentive structure makes it even harder. One of the striking things about Enron is that no one came forward and blew the whistle on the company. (Sherron Watkins has been cast in the role, but all she really did is beg her boss to orchestrate an artful cover-up so she could continue to make lots of money.) Why will the people who work at the next Enron behave any differently?"
pettinest
my only problem with this story is that if somehow this effort by the saudis actually makes some progress in the middle east that ny times columnist thomas friedman will be given credit for initiating the talks. can you imagine what would happen to his already outsized ego if he could claim credit for bringing some resolution to the most troublesome spot on the globe?