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They actually put it in baby bottles! Chemical in plastics gives you diabetes, heart attacks. We are now exposed to thousands of chemicals in daily life. My guess is, this is only the tip of the iceberg. The chemical companies will do some more ads. It is sort of like the coal industry trying to […]

Aljazeera reports on the dim view Palestinians are taking of the contest for leadership of the Kadima Party in Israel.

The NYT reports, “the Department of Defense has agreed so far this fiscal year to sell or transfer more than $32 billion in weapons and other military equipment to foreign governments, compared with $12 billion in 2005. The trend, which started in 2006, is most pronounced in the Middle East, . . .’ There are […]

Aljazeera English reports that the Afghans bombed by the US near Herat are demanding justice. Apparently an al-Qaeda operative named “Nadir” tricked the US, telling them that there was an al-Qaeda safe house in that village, when in fact they were just civilian villagers. Afghan authorities say the US killed 90 civilians at Azizabad in […]

Satire alert The Republican campaign of Sarah Palin admitted on Satuday that contrary to their previous assertions,she had not actually visited US troops inside Iraq, only visiting a border checkpoint while she was in Kuwait. They further admitted that she had not actually been in Ireland, but just sat in the plane while it refueled […]

Taliban in Afghanistan attacked the convoy of the US security firm, US Protection and Investigations, on Friday. 23 persons were killed in the clash,including 15 Taliban attackers. A US predator attack on a target in nothern Waziristan, Pakistan, left 12 persons dead on Friday. The target appears to have been a building used by the […]

Sarah Palin revealed herself in the Charlie Gibson interview on ABC to be nervous,uninformed, green and generally not ready for prime time. The interview was full of stock phrases she was made to memorize, and which she repeated over and over again when stumped. She knows nothing about how Iran is run, or about Pakistan, […]

The original al-Qaeda is defeated. It is a dangerous thing for an analyst to say, because obviously radical Muslim extremists may at some point set off some more bombs and then everyone will point fingers and say how wrong I was. So let me be very clear that I do not mean that radical Muslim […]

E. J. Dionne: Does the Truth Matter any More? Subtitled at Reddit.com, “Why is lying an acceptable tactic, asset, even, in campaigning for the most important job in the world? “ John McCain wasted all that time trying to control big money in politics and got slapped down by the courts. Maybe he would have […]