Muriel Kane

Although arguments continue as to how much of recent climate change is natural and how much is man-made, only a few diehard skeptics doubt that the warming of the last few decades is real. Now, however, those skeptics can barely contain their glee at the release of a cache of stolen emails that they [...]

Amnesty International has declared rock musician and social activist Igor Koktysh to be a prisoner of conscience who “is being persecuted for his political views.” Koktysh was tried on trumped-up murder charges in Belarus in 2001, and was allegedly tortured in an attempt to force him to confess, but he was acquitted after he [...]

The announcement on Friday that the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged September 11 conspirators will be held just blocks from the former site of the Twin Towers has quickly given rise to complications.
One factor is the angry reception they are bound to receive in New York. “Hang them,” a construction [...]

According to blogger Bruce Webb, House Minority Leader John Boehner’s proposed amendment to the health care reform act is “a fricking nightmare.”
“It is worse than I could have imagined,” Webb writes. “Someone tell me I have got this wrong. Or remove all sharp objects within my reach. Because they cannot be this brazen.”
Webb explains [...]

Former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo attempted to argue against Democratic plans for health care reform on Friday by claiming veterans were dissatisfied with their government-run health care. He was confronted by blogger Markos Moutlitsas, who unlike Tancredo is a veteran himself, and reacted by stalking off the set of MSNBC’s The Ed Show where [...]