Day February 11, 2006

Attack on LA?

Email from Joe Hartley One of the depressing facts of modern journalism is that few reporters do more than follow the story developed by others with no independent inquiry. Bush’s story of foiling an attack on the “Liberty” Tower in…

Watching us?

On some political blogs I frequent, some have been wondering if the government is watching leftie blogs and protesters. Well of course they are. They watch antiwar protests, and blogs too no doubt. I helped organize an antiwar march and…

Net Freedom Now

I was on a conference call yesterday about the Future of the Internet. There’s been unsettling changes in underlying laws which threaten network neutrality. If this trend continues the telcos and cablecos could, and indeed want to, institute a multi-tier…

Global warming: passing the ‘tipping point’

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…

This is different

Israelis may regret Saddam ousting Israel’s Shin Bet security service chief has said his country may come to regret the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, because strong dictatorship is preferable to the present chaos in Iraq. Yuval Diskin, who was secretly…