Naomi Campbell gave blood diamonds to charity
Supermodel Naomi Campbell testified at the war crimes trial today of former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor that she accepted a gift of uncut, dirty stones — possible “blood diamonds” — after attending a 1997 dinner with the dictator at Nelson Mandela’s home in South Africa. But Campbell stopped short of calling the stones diamonds, and…
Christopher Hitchens war against Thantos
Topic of Cancer One fine June day, the author is launching his best-selling memoir, Hitch-22. The next, he’s throwing up backstage at The Daily Show, in a brief bout of denial, before entering the unfamiliar country—with its egalitarian spirit, martial metaphors, and hard bargains of people who have cancer. JOINING THE RESISTANCE? The humor is…
Wikileaks upholding national security or betrayal of American democracy
WikiLeaks: The National-Security State Strikes Back By Scott Horton WikiLeaks’ disclosure of the 91,000 U.S. government documents that it labels the “Afghan War Diary” raises a number of vital issues. Most of the discussion so far has focused on the significance of the documents themselves. They make the intelligence community look not so intelligent, and…
Wikileaks and New York Times partnership unprecedented
By Alexander Hotz Why WikiLeaks and the Mainstream Media Still Need Each Other Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington. The July 25th release of 92,000 military documents…
Americans Losing the Arghandab they never had
Losing hearts and minds they never had By Clayton Swisher in Asia 82nd Airborne soldiers in Arghandab Photo by Tom Nicholson Fighting the Taliban in Arghandab – where much of its history is based – is like taking on the Italian Mafia in Sicily. As far as war goes in Afghanistan, it remains one of…
Shadow Chess game of full scale war with Iran
Neocons Hoping Israel Will Start a Fire the U.S. Will Be Forced to Put Out Justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening of the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack. What is important to understand about this…
Russian Fires Raging (photos)
Forest fires in Russia Hundreds of thousands of firefighters are battling forest fires across western and central Russia in the worst heatwave for decades. Homes have been destroyed, wildlife and farm stock lost and more than 30 people have died
Brazil can give Africa food security
President Lula can convince increased investment in rural development.
Mysterious Heiress goes viral on the internet
Huguette Clark may be the wealthiest person you’ve never heard of. She’s certainly one of the most mysterious. The 104-year-old heiress owns sprawling estates in California and Connecticut, as well as one of the largest apartments on New York’s Fifth Avenue. But, according to a very buzzy report from NBC’s “The Today Show,” Ms. Clarke…