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Many of the “contras” or members of right wing guerrilla groups fighting the Sandinista government in the 1980s were drug smugglers and terrorists. High government officials of the Reagan and Bush, Sr. administrations knew very well about the drug running. It has been alleged that the Contra drug smuggling sparked the crack cocaine crisis among […]

Charles Keating on ABC Nightline, May 14, 1990: certainly hoped that the money he gave Sen. John McCain and other politicians influence them to take up his cause. ‘ TED KOPPEL: [voice-over] It’s been called the biggest financial mess in U.S. history: the savings and loan disaster that’s left taxpayers holding the bag for an […]

Sarah Palin’s jab at Barack Obama on Sunday attempting to tie him to terrorism (!) is another in a long line of gaffes that will hurt her ticket tremendously. You always suspected that McCain, if he got in trouble with the electorate, really would stoop to calling his rival a terrorist. Saturday Night Live writers […]

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah recently hosted talks in Mecca, between Taliban and the Karzai government. And that’s the good news!

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s brother may be involved in the drug trade. Actually, a majority of Afghans are involved in raising poppies or making and exporting heroin. A good third of the country’s gross domestic product derives from the drug trade and 85% of Europe’s heroin comes from Afghanistan. Some of the Pushtuns the US […]

Fighting between Turkish government troops and Kurdish guerrillas in eastern Turkey and northern Iraq left 15 Turkish soldiers and 23 Kurdish fighters dead. Sounds like a big deal to me– countries that lose 15 men in one day are always tempted to send in more troops. Two US blackhawk helicopters crashed in Baghdad. One Iraq […]

Aljazeera English reports on the tunnels that Gazans use to blunt the impact of the siege imposed on them by Israel (and Egypt). The smugglers are sometimes killed in tunnel collapses or by demolitions by the Egyptian government. Human rights protesters against Israel’s virtual siege of the civilian population have sailed from Cyprus to Gaza, […]

As global warming melts land ice and causes ocean levels to rise, islands like Tuvalu are in danger of being inundated. The 10,000 people in the island nation are pleading with Australia to take them in when the waters rise further. Internet devotees will remember Tuvalu as the nation licensed to give out the .tv […]

The bad news is that 250 million years ago, global warming almost killed the planet. ‘Through the darkest days, the planet was a barren wasteland. Ocean circulation, so vital to our modern climate, had shut off. Huge algal blooms sucked the seas dry of oxygen. Poisonous hydrogen sulfide built up to lethal concentrations in the […]