The idea is that this will end up sorted by topic, just by virtue of previous filing.
My own bookmarks for 2004 US election campaign. Or read some short articles at the Washington Monthly on the question: what if Bush wins?
(msn slate 4-11-04) Andy Bowers on the possible backfire of the Guardian's Operation Clark County
Melanie Phillips, writing in the Daily Mail, described the riots in France as 'a French intifada, an uprising by French Muslims against the state'. I covered the intifada in Israel and Palestine and, beyond the fact that thrown stones look much the same wherever they are, saw little that resembled the Gaza Strip in the autumn of 2000 in Clichy-sous-Bois in the autumn of 2005... Phillips also conflated Arabs (a race), and Muslims (a global religion of 1.3 billion, some devout, some not)...
First, the facts. According to the French intelligence services, the areas where radical Islamic ideologies have spread furthest in France have actually proved the calmest over recent weeks. Second, characterising the rioters as 'Muslim' at all is ludicrous. Most were as Westernised as you would expect third-generation immigrants to be and far more interested in soft drugs and rap than getting up for dawn prayers.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Special report: Hurricane Katrina
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Hurricane Katrina (Rest Stop)
(factcheck.org 16-09-05) Katrina: What Happened When. It will take months to get the full story, but meanwhile here are some of the key facts about what happened and when officials acted.
(factcheck.org 02-09-05) Is Bush to Blame for New Orleans Flooding? He did slash funding for levee projects. But the Army Corps of Engineers says Katrina was just too strong.
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On the strength of having calculated war deaths around the globe over the past century, I can inform George Monbiot (The media are minimising US and British war crimes in Iraq, November 8) that the Lancet report on Iraqi deaths is deeply flawed...
The intentions and dedication of the survey team from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Washington remain excellent, and the public health aegis of their work is precisely the right context in which we should see the public deaths resulting from war and massacre. It's just a pity that their study shows no real knowledge of the battlefield.
Sir Ian Blair, Britain's most senior police officer, has admitted he did not know his officers had killed an innocent man until a day after Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station.
As reported in the press today, in this case the Guardian, it appears that the events leading up to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes were a complete cluster f***
Londonist: Londonist Blogs The Election
Please bend the knee to Lord Crony, aka Andrew Adonis, hitherto a shadowy No 10 adviser, now a junior minister in the Department for Education and Skills. There are so many things wrong with this appointment, it is hard to know where to begin.
Assuming the current projections hold, it looks like Blair is going to win, but that Labour will only have a 40-to-60 seat majority...
I really respected Blair and how he repositioned Labour into a political centrist majority. I also think his heart in the right place, domestically speaking. But despite all his positives, the lying about Iraq was simply too much to tolerate.
Trisha is hanging out of her ninth-floor window to point out which of the high-rises circling her horizon are due for demolition as part of the much-trumpeted regeneration of the Elephant and Castle area of London, when we spot Alan Milburn arriving.
Politicians had promised to make quality of life and work-life-balance issues central to the general election campaign. To achieve improvements in both, sacrifices have to be made. That is why an honest and complicated debate is not being joined. It does not fit into the template of easy promises.
One of the more sinister back stories to the Terri Schiavo drama is the return to the limelight of anti-abortion activist and Christian supremacist ideologue Randall Terry.
Jim Lindgren at the Volokh Conspiracy has joined the chorus of right-wingers whose interest in Joe Wilson outstrips their interest in anything else. He demonstrates how an intelligent mind can be seriously misled by restricting his sources to PowerLine (13 cites), the WSJ editorial page (6 cites), and single news story containing a significant error (5 cites).
E. looked at me wide-eyed that day and asked the inevitable question, ""How long do you think before they bomb us?"
"But it wasn't us. It can't be us," I rationalized.
"It doesn't matter. It's all they need."
And it was true. It began with Afghanistan and then it was Iraq.
A partial selection (in both senses of the word) of bloggers' responses to the 3rd Aniversary of September 11th.
The lesson I drew from September 11th wasn't about vengeance, retribution, remaking the world through might and money. It was that we are facing people who destroy for a purpose worse than no purpose at all. And if we are to fight them, to turn the world against them, we must fight in a way that is a total and utter repudiation of them.
This then is the danger of merging the war in Iraq with the war on terror - we forget to pay attention to one as our soldiers die in the other. We stay in our national comfort zone - state against state. What we lose, however, is the urgency to do what's necessary to win the actual war on terror.
Although I did not find Osama, I did encounter a much more ubiquitous form of evil and terror: a culture, stretching across about half the globe, that chews up women and spits them out.
Every time a Western politician with any historical sense faces a crisis, he has to decide whether he should back down and search for whatever compromise he can find, for fear of repeating 1914, or step up and slug somebody, for fear of repeating 1939.
The Bush administration's 2005 budget is a masterpiece of disingenuous blame-shifting, dishonest budgeting and irresponsible governing.
The strategy that won the Cold War could help bring democracy to the Middle East-- if only the Bush hawks understood it.
I doubt, in any case, that Zionism quite explains Lewis's role as a cheerleader for the war in Iraq. Nor does his supposed contempt for the Arab world do so. On the contrary, perhaps he loves it too much. It is a common phenomenon among Western students of the Orient to fall in love with a civilization. Such love often ends in bitter impatience when reality fails to conform to the ideal.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard won his fourth consecutive election last night, increasing his majority in a contest that was on a knife edge until the last minute. The result is a disaster for the opposition Labor party, which is now likely to notch up more than a decade in opposition after dominating Australia's political scene throughout the 1980s and the 1990s.
Germany's most overtly neo-Nazi party secured a footing in a regional parliament yesterday for the first time in more than a generation.
Last week, Bush's base introduced a bill that would ban the use of state funds to purchase any books or other materials that "promote homosexuality".
The Lib Dems have Europe, climate change and green politics to themselves, questions of monumental importance lamentably sidelined by Labour. But whether or not they deserve it, they are still nowhere near power.
For a long time the Liberal Democrats have been seen as the party of dreamers, idealists, eccentrics and the bloody-minded. But careerists? In the Lib Dems? You have to be joking. Yet Davey, and his fellow self-styled young Turks, are careerists to their fingertips.
The scapegoat ritual tends to flourish in times of high anxiety like our own. It expresses a dangerous confusion of incompatible but explosive emotions: fear, hatred, love, a yearning for purity, and contempt for the other.
What my mother's generation knew - and we are in danger of forgetting - is that no woman casually decides to have an abortion beyond 20 weeks. Late abortions arise from terrible circumstances and difficult choices.
Genetically modified crops are excellent technology. If Britain and the world had agricultural policies that truly were designed for the benefit of humankind - to feed everybody well, provide employment and look after the environment - they might be useful in many ways; and this week's Monsanto decision to give up on GM wheat might be regrettable.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates found time in a busy diary this week to oil the wheels in the relationship with his most important non-US customer - the British public sector.
The return to supply-side economics in America will be watched with particular interest in Britain, where Labour is about to find out if voters will pay more tax for better public services.