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U.S. to Collect Data on Travelers - Double Plus Good!
The American Civil Liberties Union, which has criticized many of the administration's anti-terrorism information-gathering efforts, said these rules should not impinge on people's privacy. "We don't see a huge downside," said spokeswoman Emily Whitfield.
But others reacted more cautiously...
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 9:21pm PST
The Talented, the Educated, the Able, the Willing, and the Screwed
The United States has long been the world's hot bed of technological advancement. The cutting edge of the cutting edge of American technology has long been the realm of the American software engineer, developer, and programmer. All of this is threatened by a government and industry that openly promote the destruction of this American niche. Our government has actively and knowingly supported strategies, actions, policies, and laws that have pushed the American engineer out of the economic ...
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 8:15pm PST
Kurds Call for Ocalan's Release
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - About 300 drum-banging Kurds staged a noisy demonstration in Nicosia's main square on Saturday, demanding the release of rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan....
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 7:47pm PST
Why the rise of Anti-Semitism in Europe?
Any time that we hear that Jews are "suddenly" being persecuted, we have to
ask what is really going on. Are their opponents attacking them only because
they are Jews?...
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 7:31pm PST
Professor Francis A. Boyle calling for preventive impeachment of George W. Bush
58 minute radio show, mp3 for streaming or download...
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 7:05pm PST
Israeli fury over British 'arms ban'
Britain approved 128 export licence requests from January to November 2001, rejecting 77. Licences revoked since Israeli forces re-entered Palestinian areas in force after September 2000 include weapons sights, bombing computers, target-designating equipment, torpedoes and demolition devices....
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 6:04pm PST
Brazil: Two Thousand Families to be Evicted
Two thousand landless families in Guarulhos, Brazil are facing the risk of
eviction on Monday morning. Your international solidarity may be decisive....
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 4:44pm PST
Al Qaeda prepares bio-terror for US and Israel
Summary of DEBKA-Net-Weekly article of Jan. 3...
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 2:32pm PST
Zionist Attack on Catholics
Zionists "Mummers" mock Catholics in Philadelphia...
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 2:24pm PST
Venezuela: Chomsky's Tropical Nightmare Come True
After the restoration of the legitimate democratic government, most of the Venezuelan private media continued its one-sided political action, serving as a crude outlet for anti-government, pro-coup propaganda....
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 1:47pm PST
Hepatic encephalopathy
Precipitation of acute event, search for:
New overt or occult infection including spontaneous peritonitis
Potassium, magnesium or other electrolyte depletion
Use of opiate, sedative, tranquilizer, drugs
Gastrointestinal bleeding...
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 12:11pm PST
Nautical Ecocide Threatens the World's Aquarium
(versión en Español pendiente) Analysis of the Escalera Nautica or Nautical Stairway project in Northwest Mexico, with regards to environmental impact and global economic forces....
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 10:53am PST
Canadians not approving of American policy
Canadians are showing significant signs that they want to move away from the direction taken by the states. This is a MacLeans magazine story, Dec 26, 2002....
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 10:17am PST
War Is the Health of the State
Randolph Bourne wrote this essay in 1918 but it is equally prescient today. An excerpt below....
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 10:14am PST
Is Pakistan Next?
As thousands of Pakistanis prepared to demonstrate Friday against the possibility of a U.S.-led war against Iraq, American troops based in Afghanistan threatened to complicate U.S.-Pakistani relations by asserting they have the right to cross the border into Pakistan in hot pursuit of enemy fighters....
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 9:47am PST
Fisk: The double standards, dubious morality and duplicity of this fight against terror
But no American – or British – newspaper has dared to investigate another, almost equally dangerous, relationship that the present US administration is forging behind our backs: with the military-supported regime in Algeria. For 10 years now, one of the world's dirtiest wars has been fought out in this country, supposedly between "Islamists" and "security forces", in which almost 200,000 people – mostly civilians – have been killed....
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 9:12am PST