Monthly Archives: January 2007

Big Brother sugars the surveillance pillVictor KeeganThursday January 4, 2007The Guardian Something funny has been happening to the CCTV cameras in our neighbourhood. They have started growing ears. Not real ones – at least not yet – but audio functions … Continue reading →

Bush says feds can open mail without warrantBy James Gordon MeekNew York Daily News WASHINGTON — President Bush quietly has claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans’ mail without a judge’s warrant. Bush asserted the new authority Dec. 20 after … Continue reading →

Terror’s Trivial When It’s Not MuslimsMadrid Airport bombing receives scant attentionPaul Joseph WatsonPrison PlanetThursday, January 4, 2007 How many people who aren’t news junkies know that Madrid Airport was bombed on Saturday? Relatively few I would venture, and that’s because … Continue reading →

Where’s the Outrage Over Escalation?By Dan FroomkinSpecial to washingtonpost.comWednesday, January 3, 2007; 2:28 PM The American voters in November made it clear that it’s time to start withdrawing from Iraq. Political leaders from both parties and any number of experts … Continue reading →

From Missing Links. A couple of “moderate” writers in a time of crisis For pan-Arab writers like Abdulbari Atwan of Al-Quds al-Arabi, there was never any doubt about the nature of Bush-administration policy in Iraq and the whole region. It … Continue reading →

From the Truth About Iraqis blog. Are war criminals carrying press passes? If they help to propagate a war, heck yes. One fact many of those who visit this blog do not know is that 35 of the 55 “deck … Continue reading →

Americans on the planet give a rat’s ass about this or they are totally bored by it. It is American football which is slow and played by giants that are going to be fat. Texas has had a couple of … Continue reading →

Congress, with the new Democratic majority, opens tomorrow (Jan. 4). As the Washington Post reported today, “Nowhere in the Democrats’ consensus-driven agenda is legislation revisiting last year’s establishment of military tribunals and suspending legal rights for suspected terrorists. Nor is … Continue reading →

Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories: what should one call it?By V. BuchJan 3, 2007, 16:38 The State of Israel calls it “fight for existence” or “fight against terror”. Its detractors call it “colonization”, “apartheid”, or “ethnic cleansing”. Baruch Kimmerling … Continue reading →

Bush Theocrats Censor Grand Canyon Geology, Insist It Was Formed by Noah’s FloodPosted by Jon Ponder | Jan. 3, 2007, 9:03 am From Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER): Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official … Continue reading →

On July 20th 1944 plotters led by Klaus Von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate the lawful ruler of Germany but fate intervened and Hitler survived. However the blood lust of this psychopathic serial killer would take weeks and thousands to satiate. … Continue reading →

Stand with Lt. Ehren Watada Against Illegal and Immoral War in Iraq “My fellow soldiers are fighting and dying in Iraq and their families are suffering because of the lies and deceptions crafted by the Bush Administration. The Iraq war … Continue reading →