Day May 18, 2004

Rumsfeld is toastFrom Seeing the Forest, comes this excellent analysis “Apparently Rumsfeld has been chosen as the fall guy for Iraq, as this piece by Martin Sieff, “UPI Senior News Analyst” shows: “Even worse for Rumsfeld and his coterie of…

Same-sex couples marry in Massachusetts! Gay couples began exchanging marriage vows in Massachusetts on Monday, marking the first time a state has granted gays and lesbians the right to marry and making the United States one of at least four…

Iraqi leader dies in suicide attack US efforts to stabilise Iraq ahead of next month’s transfer of sovereignty were dealt a huge blow yesterday when the head of Iraq’s US-appointed governing council was killed by a suicide car bomber. Targeted…

Children of Bush’s America: Naomi Klein  The torturers of Abu Ghraib were McWorkers who ended up in Iraq because they could no longer find decent jobs at home.

Spoofstick and phishing You need Spoofstick. It installs to your browser and tells you what site you are really on, thus protecting you against sites pretending to be another site. It used to be, the browser address would always have…