Day June 15, 2004

Iraqi insurgents blow up oil pipelines Iraqi insurgents stepped up their campaign against the country’s infrastructure on Tuesday, blasting two oil pipelines, cutting the country’s oil exports and driving up world oil prices. Officials made the usual noises about how…

Akamai goes postal, kills Microsoft, Symantec, Google, Apple, Lycos… Akamai hosts many huge websites. Today, a “large scale international attack on the Internet’s infrastructure” took out Akamia and thus all the sites they host for a few hours. My guess:…

Hot: Interrogation abuses were ‘approved at highest levels’ “New evidence that the physical abuse of detainees in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay was authorised at the top of the Bush administration will emerge in Washington this week, adding further to…

Bush the Elder does not support the war (yet says nothing) The Iraqi war that has so divided Americans is also causing a rift in the family of President George W. Bush. The President’s father, George H.W. Bush – 41st…

Greens are deeply divided Excerpts from a statement by Peter Camejo We are approaching the national convention unusually divided. I believe, however, that there is a way for us to reach a substantial consensus and come out of the convention…