Month June 2006

More Big Brother from the Bushies

Big Internet and telephone companies are girding to fight an unprecedented call by the Bush administration for them to keep detailed records of customers’ online activities for two years. Well, I certainly trust them not to use this information to…

Oil workers abducted from rig off Nigeria

This was an offshore rig. “Normally … they can disappear into the jungle or wherever they happen to be. Now they have 40 kilometres of ocean to get to land. Nigeria does have a navy and they do have aircraft…

Ya think?

Was the 2004 election stolen? Hey Rolling Stone, it would have helped a whole lot more if you’d published this in November 2004, not June 2006… It’s not like lots of us didn’t know it then.

Heroin: The solution?

An approach to ending heroin addiction that actually works, but is far too sensible to be adopted in here in the States. Drugs charities called yesterday for Britain to abandon its tough approach to heroin use after research showed one…

The logic of war crimes in a criminal war

From the national ANSWER Coalition listserv comes this clear explanation of why the massacres of civilians in Iraq is no aberration. By: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Brian Becker (Verheyden-Hilliard is a civil rights attorney and co-founder of the Partnership for Civil…