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  • US group implants electronic tags in workers
    13 February 2006

    By Richard Waters in San Francisco
    An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been “tagged” electronically as a way of identifying them.
    CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds security video footage for government agencies and the police.
    Embedding slivers of silicon in workers is likely to add to the (…)

  • Walkin’ to New Orleans Veterans’ and Survivors’ March from Mobile to New Orleans
    13 February 2006

    March 19, 2006, is the 3rd anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
    Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans
    Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for
    Peace, and hurricane survivors’ organizations are organizing a five-day
    march along Gulf Coast Highway 90 to demand the immediate return of our
    troops from Iraq, and to call for U.S. tax dollars to be spent on human
    priorities and rebuilding of the devastated Gulf Coast, (…)

  • Professor Ilan Pappe on Norman Finkelstein’s Beyond Chutzpah
    13 February 2006

    Occupation Hazard
    Norman Finkelstein Challenges the Conventional Line on Israel.
    Why is the history of modern Palestine such a matter of debate? Why is it still regarded as a complex, indeed obscure, chapter in contemporary history that cannot be easily deciphered? Any abecedarian student of its past who comes to it with clean hands would immediately recognize that in fact its story is very simple. For that matter it is not vastly different from other colonialist instances or tales of (…)

  • Global warming: passing the ’tipping point’
    13 February 2006

    Our special investigation reveals that critical rise in world temperatures is now unavoidable
    By Michael McCarthy
    A crucial global warming "tipping point" for the Earth, highlighted only last week by the British Government, has already been passed, with devastating consequences.
    Research commissioned by The Independent reveals that the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has now crossed a threshold, set down by scientists from around the world at a conference in Britain (…)

  • When United States of America became the United Corporations of America
    13 February 2006

    by Mary MacElveen
    There is a wonderful (American) TV show that will end its run after many years of entertaining us and giving those who often do not know the inner workings of the White House a lesson on how the executive branch works.
    The show I speak of is "The West Wing." Many people through these past five years have craved a president like President Jeb Bartlet. After all, he is intelligent and speaks in coherent sentences and does not seem to take that many vacations.
    In the (…)

  • George Tenet Deserves Whatever Penalty Is Given to Moussaoui
    13 February 2006

    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com An Associated Press article by Matthew Barakat reports about the sentencing proceeding under way for Zacarias Moussoui, who boasts of membership in Al Qaeda and pled guilty to terrorism last April. Barakat writes that the federal prosecutors plan to link Moussaoui to the 9/11 attacks directly and that they will argue that Moussaoui’s lies to investigators when he was arrested in August 2001 prevented the FBI from thwarting (…)

  • Impeach them all
    13 February 2006

    Impeach Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez, DeLay, Boner, Chertoff, Rice, Rumsfeld....Do I need to continue? What a group.
    johnnybgood

  • Letter from Iraq by PFC Moe Lyse
    13 February 2006

    Dear Ma
    I cannot believe the progress our soldiers are making here in Iraq. I am sitting at a small table in downtown Baghdad (Ali’s),sipping a cool spiced tea and joking with local businessmen. They tell me things couldn’ be better now that George Bush has introduced democracy in their once stife-torn country.
    I have heard reports that the electricity is now up and running 24/7 in almost all parts of Iraq, and there are new schools and hospitals being constructed every day. Those (…)

  • IS DICK DRUNK WITH POWER OR MERELY JUST A DRUNK ?
    13 February 2006

    Warning to my fellow Americans : Don’t pull the stunt that Dicky Boy pulled over the past weekend. If you were to excessively imbibe of the spirits , accidentally shoot your hunting partner and coverup your misconduct , the men in blue (or black) would be paying a visit to your abode . You would have to hire a lawyer and you would be forced to smile in front of the nice cameraman at the police station on charges of attempted manslaughter or reckless endangement . Owing to the (…)

  • The top two Republicans in Congress caught in an outright lie
    13 February 2006

    A Republican staffer has named Frist and Hastert as the two lawmakers that added the vaccine makers liability protection to the defense bill- after the committee had met several times that day, and Dems even asked Alaska Senator Ted Stevens if the language was in the bill, and he told them no.
    After the conference committee broke up, a meeting was called in Hastert’s office, [Rep staffer Keith] Kennedy said. Also at the meeting, according to a congressional staffer, were Frist, Stevens (…)