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UC Hastings College of the Law Student Council votes to oppose Prop. 54...

Aqila Al-Hashimi was buried today in the holy city of Najaf, in the south. Her funeral procession was astounding. Rumor has it that she was supposed to be made Iraq’s ambassadress to the UN. There are still no leads to her attackers’ identities… somehow people seem to think that Al-Chalabi and gang are behind this attack just like they suspect he might have been behind the Jordanian Embassy attack....

Alan Dershowitz's $10,000 challenge -- to defy his lies as lies.....

This is one of the last articles written by Edward Said. It ends on a note of hope and dignity......

...he had even less patience with American television anchors. "When I went on air," he told me once, "the Israeli consul in New York said I was a terrorist and wanted to kill him. And what did the anchorwoman say to me? 'Mr Said, why do you want to kill the Israeli consul?' How do you reply to such garbage?" Edward was a rare bird. He was both an icon and an iconoclast....

Within two hours, news emerged that the two Arabic-language channels would be punished for their alleged transgressions by being refused all co-operation from the "interim council" for two weeks - a punishment many journalists here would wish to have inflicted on them....

Major reconstruction contracts are being given to the huge companies, like Bechtel and Halliburton, for millions of dollars. These companies, in turn, employ the Iraqis in the following way: they first ask for bids on specific projects. The Iraqi company with the lowest bid is selected to do the work. The Iraqi company gets *exactly* what it bid from the huge conglomerate, which is usually only a fraction of the original contract price. Hence, projects that should cost $1,000,000 end up costi...

Since when, I have to ask myself, has it been acceptable for only one side of a conflict to have weapons? Since when has "self-defense" been defined as the actions of a military superpower against the very people it oppresses and seeks to destroy? How long will we rail against the use of violence by those who are subjected to it repeatedly and in every conceivable form every day of their lives? The struggle for Palestine has gone far beyond a quarrel over land and property rights: M...

An American officer came to the home of an Iraqi family. American soldiers had killed the family's young son by mistake. "How much compensation would you accept?" the officer asked. "Ten dead Americans," the father replied....

Like a mythical fairy, weapons of mass destruction have vanished from Iraq and reappeared in Syria. No doubt once we obliterate Syria and find no weapons, we will be informed how this elusive fairy found its way to Lebanon. After razing Lebanon and finding no trace of our highly evanescent fairy, we will be told of how she was so cruelly kidnapped and taken to Iran. As fairies often tend to be, this nuclear fairy is of course non-existant in the Middle East -- except in one country, Israel......