Day December 16, 2005

A.N.S.W.E.R. responds to UFPJ

From A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Steering Committee (full text online) in response to an email United for Peace and Justice sent out on their listserv saying they’ll never join forces with ANSWER again. I guess they’ll have to change their name, as…

Yahoo Mail beta

I finally got let into the Yahoo Mail beta that’s been getting rave reviews. It has an entirely new interface, appears to be the equal of PC-based newsreaders like Outlook and Thunderbird, yet it’s online. It’s way more intuitive than…

More sleazy ‘journalism’

Copley columnist Doug Bandow resigned as senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute on Thursday after admitting that he had accepted payments from indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff for writing articles favorable to his clients. Even conservatives are appalled "My…

Pentagon spying. LA activists respond

These LA Indymedia interviews concern the Pentagon spying at an ANSWER LA-initiated anti-war demonstration in Hollywood last March; a protest that had legal permits, was peaceful, with no arrests. The Pentagon’s rationale for this, that they were investigating groups that…