Bush's Secret Dictactorship:

The memo was one of nine previously undisclosed Office of Legal Counsel documents released by Obama's Justice Department yesterday, most of them making baldly spurious legal arguments to support any number of unprecedented tactics that were either contemplated or employed by the White House ( Read more... )

Blood and batons spur Pakistan row

This is a good article that summarizes the current row between Pakistan's Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Mohammed Ali Durrani Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, who had traditionally supported Musharraf, against the government, which has tried to tame down the judge. The Chief Justice has been supported by most of ( Read more... )

Undercover TV pranksters penetrate North Korea [thestar.com, bugmenot]

"No one grasped the thick irony and satire," Bruegger said. "I believe we only survived because 50 years of mind control has wiped out any sense of irony and satire."

When he finally does go off to that great politburo in the sky...

Bwahaha

The Star discusses Castro's eventual demise and succession

Backed by a blazing 70-piece Afrobeat orchestra, Fela rails against the Nigerian military construct as proud puppets of bureaucratic Gepettos: “Zombie won't go unless you tell him to go/Zombie won't stop unless you tell him to stop.” His words were enough to “inspire” more than a thousand army thugs to break into his home (an independent state), ( Read more... )

Georgetown law students stand up to Alberto Gonzalez [thanks subnuminous]