Independent filmmaker Jem Cohen shoots movies the old-fashioned way, using a hand-wound 16mm Bolex camera. That alone makes him unique among today’s digitized, computerized crop of indie filmmakers. But it doesn’t make him a terrorist, except in the small minds of Amtrak police, Homeland Security goons and the paranoid administration of George W. Bush.
These past five years, we have witnessed wholesale environmental plunder. We’ve watched the destruction of formerly protected lands, the relaxation of air- and water-pollution standards and the erosion of a network of federal laws and rules designed to protect species in danger of extinction.
New research is beginning to explain how the brains of alcoholics become smaller and lighter compared to those of non-drinkers, and what functions may be lost due to chronic drinking.
Osama bin Laden, the fugitive al Qaeda leader that the U.S. claims is sick but it still unable to find, is in good health, a Taliban commander says.
A disgraced former official at the White House Council on Environmental Quality who resigned days after the New York Times reported he had changed some government reports on global warming is joining oil giant ExxonMobil.
Frustrated Senate Republicans hoping to turn up pressure on Democrats said Tuesday they would try again this week or next to vote to break the deadlock over John Bolton’s bid to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
President George W. Bush abandoned his post-election promise to “reach out and mend fences” Tuesday, unleashing his harshest criticism yet on Democrats for what he called thwarting his second-term agenda.