Maybe the biggest downer of this argument for giving Americans the down-time which Europeans, even the Japanese, enjoy in quantities denied us you here is the part about our greed for consumption b...

New York is prett much the nation's capital, if not the capital of the world, in many ways, but until 212 years ago it was in actual fact the political capital of the new nation. Now they're all c...

It's not the barbeque, and it's certainly not the traffic. It was born as an attempt to appease the working people of America. [Remember the Pullman strike in history class?] Unfortunately it se...

Are we better off knowing that they don't know what they are doing, or does that make them more dangerous? Already under fire from abroad, the Bush administration was criticized across the politi...

The other, little-guy countries on the planet may still make a difference after all! Germany has told the United States it will withhold evidence against Sept. 11 conspiracy defendant Zacarias Mo...

A pretty real piece, "Victims of Realtime...on the bizarre memorialization of 911," currently appears on the first page of the refreshingly-irreverent site, HOLY FUCKING SHIT DAY. I posted my own...

Tony Blair says that the world cannot stand by while Iraq is in "flagrant breach" of United Nations resolutions. "Doing nothing about Iraq's breach of these UN resolutions is not an option. "Tha...

It is not necessary to have illusions about the liberality of the Palestinian Authority, or Palestinian society as a whole in order to oppose what is being done to the Palestinian people by Israel,...

More on the American car vs. public transit thing. The rest of the world is becoming more and more aware of our special cult and addiction, and they clearly aren't going to be indifferent to its p...

Disgusting, but really no surprise. We got the toady and the fascist to forgive future American war crimes.