[BRIEF NOTE] Some News Items of Note

[rfmcdonald]

• The Iraqi government wants to arrest Ahmed Chalabi and his nephew for high crimes. It's interesting how quickly he has gone from a position of unchallenged prestige with full American support; but then, it's more interesting how he got to that point in the first place.


• Just a thousand kilometers to the west, Israel wants to keep the Maaleh Adumim settlement, in order to bolster a declining Jewish majority in Jerusalem. That retaining the community would neatly bifurcate the West Bank apparently doesn't matter. What I wrote back in June seems still more appropriate now.


• Monica Bellucci criticizes the Italian government and the Catholic Church for their reactionary attitudes towards fertility treatment and reproductive technology. And how.


• The separatists of Québec might have the ethnic vote now.