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Bush to have ISP's spy on users The Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and, potentially, surveillance of its users....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 1:40pm PST
The Corporations That Supplied Iraq's Weapons Program Even before Iraq released its weapons-program dossier on 7 December 2002, it was said that the report would name the corporations that supplied Iraq with the equipment and other material it needed to develop biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. Soon after the report was released, those suspicions were confirmed....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 1:04pm PST
Indybay IMC Interviews Al Giordano on Venezuela, the media, and anarchism Like most gringos, I know very little about Venezuela. Since things seem to be heating up there, I figured it was time to lay at least some of my ignorance to rest. So I asked an expert....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 12:10pm PST
Bush to propose requiring ISPs to monitor Net Stewart Baker, a Washington lawyer who represents some of the nation's largest ISPs, said, ``Internet service providers are concerned about the privacy implications of this as well as liability,'' since providing access to live feeds of network activity could be interpreted as a wiretap or as the ``pen register'' and ``trap and trace'' systems used on phones without a judicial order....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 12:10pm PST
Information Awareness Office Website Deletes Its Logo - WHY?? 
I thought it was a joke when I first saw it - now they seem to have removed it. Why? It was helping to create the correct Orwellian sideshow context. Why ruin a good show?...
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 12:04pm PST
US in Material Breach of Iraq Resolution: UN and US set for a Showdown Blix Says US, UK Not Giving Him Enough Intelligence...
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 11:49am PST
Drugs involved in friendly fire deaths Two American pilots accused in a fatal "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan took speed before it occurred, an enquiry has found.
The pilots were taking amphetamines prescribed by the United States military when they killed four Canadians last April, according to US Air Force investigators....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 11:45am PST
(Idiot) US brokering a deal to force early elections in Venezuela even Forbes covers this . . .
Call for early elections in the US!...
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 11:29am PST
THE PHILIPPINES AND THE U.S. HEGEMONIC THRUST "With the full backing and support by the US, President Arroyo as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines has unleashed a most brutal war against progressive and militant forces. Even the unarmed, legal democratic movement is not spared. More than 20 members from my party, Bayan Muna, have been murdered in the past 18 months since Arroyo became President. One-hundred forty-eight (148) activists have been killed in this short period."...
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 10:59am PST
Berkeley Liberation Radio Fights Back. Part 2: Dec. 18th rally at Oakland Federal Building (video/quicktime 4.6MB) Isabella programmer tells what the assault meant to her and her listeners. 1.6 min. QT movie 5MB....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 10:56am PST
Berkeley Liberation Radio Fights Back. Part 1: Dec. 18th rally at Oakland Federal Building (video/quicktime 11.4MB) On Dec. 11th FCC agents assaulted 104.1 FM. Here's an eyewitness account. 4 min. QT movie 11MB....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 10:51am PST
Racism puts Bush, GOP on defensive For Mississippians stung by the whip of racism, the firestorm engulfing Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is long overdue. Charles Tisdale, publisher of The Jackson Advocate, an African-American newspaper, told the World, "With a record as bad as Lott’s, I can’t see why people are surprised. I’ve known Lott for 35 years. He’s always been a racist."...
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 9:41am PST
Peruvian military exercises An example of the breeding of a bloodthirsty militaristic mindset --...
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 9:40am PST
As racism pervades the body politic, A new civil rights movement grows Trent Lott’s racist remarks earlier this month may have served to strengthen a growing civil rights movement to defend affirmative action. The Supreme Court agreed on Dec. 2 to hear Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, which have been described as the most significant civil rights cases since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. The cases’ outcome will decide whether or not the nation’s colleges and universities can continue to use affirmative action in their admissions policies....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 9:37am PST
Say you are sick of war just say you turned on your TV, saw all the death, and felt incredibly sick...
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 8:35am PST
What Palestinians Want -- Three Palestinian Voices: Equal Rights for All We've been told by Israel's supporters incessantly that all Palestinians want is to destroy Israel. Here are three genuine Palestinian voices speaking about what they really want: Equality for all under the law, i.e. an end to Apartheid....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 5:57am PST
BTL:U.S. Media's Timid Role in 1991 Gulf War Likely to Repeat in... ...Any New Conflict with Iraq. Interview with John MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine, conducted by Between the Lines'Scott Harris....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 2:32am PST
Flashpoints Dec19: INS arrests; Korea elects; Chris Hedges; Argentina celebrates KPFA Flashpoints Dec 19, 2002:
-hundreds of Middle Eastern men and boys rounded up by the INS
-South Korea elects a progressive new president
-interview with Chris Hedges, radical journalist, the author of Gaza Diary and War Is The Force That Gives Us Meaning
-Argentinians celebrate a year of self-actualization, rejection of the IMF...
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 2:11am PST
Lyrics to "Xmas in the Trenches" Although it is not very well known, the "soldier's truce" of 1914 was a remarkable event where soldiers on both sides realized they had more in common with their "enemy" than they did with the rulers of their warring nations....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 1:51am PST
Brachyramphus marmoratus defense - 12-17-02 
Pacific Lumber is presently destroying endangered Marbled Murrelet Habitat....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 1:39am PST
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