From the BBC:

Supporters say future peace depends on the amnesty

Around 25,000 people have rallied in the Afghan capital Kabul, calling for a proposed war crimes amnesty for former military commanders to be made law.

The protesters, who gathered in a stadium, included ex-mujahideen and several top government officials.

The upper house of parliament has passed the controversial bill but it has yet to be signed by the president.

Tens of thousands of people were killed and tortured during decades of war and unrest in the country.

If the bill were to become law, those who led fighting first as leaders of the anti-Soviet resistance during the 1980s and then during the 1992-1996 civil war would be immune to prosecution for war crimes.

International rights groups and the UN have voiced opposition to the proposal, saying justice must be done.

The Toronto Star's Antonia Zerbisias on the effects of the Quebecor starvation diet on the Toronto Sun.

From the AP story on globeandmail.com:

The editor of The New Yorker said Thursday his magazine never intended to offend anyone when it published a cartoon that joked about a Polish name and drunkenness.

David Remnick was responding to the reaction of some New Yorkers of Polish origin, angered by what they consider a “Polish joke” published in the Feb. 19 issue of the magazine.

Veteran cartoonist Robert Weber had sketched two children chatting at a bus stop with the caption, “My parents named me Zbigniew because they were drunk.”

Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, offers an analysis of the IPCC report with a view to U.S. domestic politics.

British commentator Timothy Garton Ash asks a question I've wrestled with for some time: Is global capitalism, with its mantra of constant growth driven by manufactured desire, environmentally sustainable over the long term?

But if it isn't, what are we prepared to do about it?