Prosecutors are seeking the death sentence for six detainees who are allegedly responsible for the 9/11 attacks. This is including the "mastermind", Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. You plan an attack on US soil, and Western media will post the worst possible picture of you they can find.

The Writers' Guild of America strike is finally over, after three months of sheer drama. The writers' still pretty much got the shaft with regards to DVD sales and several other demands, but broke new ground in demanding residuals for New Media. Robert J. Elisberg lays it down line-by-line over at HuffPo.
In Zurich, armed robbers stole $160 million in art in broad daylight. The paintings include works from Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and Cezanne. Come on, now, Switzerland.
Yahoo's Board of Directors rebuffed Microsoft's unprovoked buyout, saying the Evil Empire valued Yahoo as too low. Yahoo's investors, however, are lukewarm about the decision to not be bought. One of our guest writers, Edward VanBogaert, outlines the antitrust ramifications of this merger.
In the race for the Maison Blanche (been listening to too much BBC Afrique in the mornings), Clinton is avoiding putting too much stock into tomorrow's so-called "Potomac Primaries" and is looking ahead to Ohio and Texas. Can she stop Obamarama in the "Heart of It All" and the Longhorn State? As an Ohio voter, my vote says no.
Lastly, McCain has a little tizzy with Castro, of all people, over the use of torture by Cubans during Vietnam. Castro refuted claims that Cubans tortured anyone during the war. McCain responded, "For me to respond to Fidel Castro, who has oppressed and repressed his people and who is one of the most brutal dictators on Earth, for me to dignify any comments he might make is certainly beneath me." So much for dialogue.
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