The front page of today’s Washington Post has a none-too-flattering analysis of Gov. Howard Dean, the man most likely to challenge GW Bush for the White House in 2004. It starts:
“Former Vermont governor Howard Dean stands on the brink of a remarkable achievement in American politics, having transformed himself from rank obscurity to clear favorite [...]

Hi folks. I’ve been off-line a bit fighting with my landlord and trying to get my new apartment straightened out. I’ve moved as of the first of December. My new Internet connection is up and running, but my workstation hasn’t been able to talk to my monitor since the move. I [...]

It’s not a particularly European topic, but one I simply had to report. I just received a newsletter from the European Journalism Center pointing to a BBC story about the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda handing life sentences to several radio “journalists” who had called for the genocidal slaughter of Tutsis in 1994 including communicating [...]

Kevin Drum says thinking about the war in Iraq: that there was a perfectly sensible case for war, and wonder why the Bush administration didn’t use it:
We can’t keep up sanctions forever, and they’re hurting the Iraqi people anyway.
Saddam’s past history is pretty unambiguous, and if we lift sanctions there’s not much doubt that [...]

As you know, today is the second anniversary of the attack on the WTC, and the 30th anniversary of the coup in Chile.
To all victims of al-Qaida and all victims of Pinochet, to all the victims of terrorism and all victims of state terror, to all victims of war and all victims of political [...]