Month May 2004

Feel safer? The US-led “war on terror” is behind a surge of human rights abuses around the world, according to a report by Amnesty International. The organisation said America’s offensive against global terrorism was “bankrupt of vision” and had “made…

Anti-Muslim hate crime at UC Irvine Arab students built a display wall in the campus Free Speech Zone to symbolize the apartheid-like wall being built in Israel now. Someone burned it down. UCI Police Chief Al Brown said officials are…

Bush polls down. Terror alert up! U.S. warns of Al Qaeda attack but offers no details Pardon my skepticism, but this latest terror alert is highly suspect, coming as it does as Bush’s poll numbers hit all time lows. He’s done this…

Andy Rooney: Our darkest days are here The image of one bad young woman with a naked man on a leash did more to damage America’s reputation than all the good things we’ve done over the years ever helped our…

Democracy Lyrics and song by Leonard Cohen ExcerptIt’s coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It’s coming from the feel that this ain’t exactly real, or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there. From…