Month December 2005

WTO protests: Water a focus

Hong Kong — Activists gathered here say that no issue highlights the tension between the human values they advocate and the economic logic of the legion of corporate globalizers that have descended on this city more clearly than water. Water…

Rendition: On Planet Jack and Planet Tony…

Both Tony Blair and Jack Straw have had more to say [but little to add] on the unfolding story of Extraordinary Rendition. On Planet Jack, concerns about Rendition Torture and ‘Black Sites’ are nothing more than paranoid fantasy On Planet…

Ralphs indicted in hiring dispute

Ralph’s is the biggest grocery chain in California. A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted the Ralphs grocery chain Ralphs used fake names and Social Security numbers and falsified thousands of employee records sent to various government agencies to…

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…