China launches game of Go

For the past months, economists have been wondering why China just keeps letting the its U.S. balance of payments get more and more lopsided. Now it is becoming clear. China is launching a game of Go. The prize is control…

Logging, death, and protests

The battle to stop Pacific Lumber from illegal logging and environmental destruction in Humboldt County reached epic proportions. Tree sitters, court battles, and a death which many enviros consider to be murder. On a September day in 1998, the bearded redhead…

The Bushies will probably say this helps the terrorists

Euro Software Patents are DEAD! w00t!. Cory Doctorow: You have won the fight to keep software patents — America’s disastrous, failed system for awarding exclusive rights to mathematical instructions — out of Europe. Despite the other side’s nonstop dirty tricks,…

G8 festivities commence tomorrow

Police scuffle with G8 protesters Police and protesters scuffled in Edinburgh ahead of Wednesday’s G8 summit as officials braced for more demonstrations and the possibility of a terrorist attack. Nice move that, linking demonstrators with terrorism. One clown waved a…

Operation Yellow Elephant

The objective of Operation Yellow Elephant is to recruit College Republicans and Young Republicans to serve as infantry. They demanded this war and now viciously support it. It’s only right that they also experience it. Liberal blogs are having fun…

Bush admits earth not flat

US President George Bush is now ready to concede that climate change has scientific basis, and that collective action is required over global warming. Until now, Mr Bush has adopted an intransigent position, insisting there is no scientific basis to…

KCRW Listeners load up on podcasts via iTunes

Podcast downloads from Santa Monica-based KCRW zoomed to 100,000 a day from 3,500 when iTunes began hosting podcasts. I used to volunteer at KCRW, a nominally public radio station which now arguably has more advertisements than some commercial radio stations.…

More torture in Iraq

Revealed: grim world of new Iraqi torture camps Secret torture chambers, the brutal interrogation of prisoners, murders by paramilitaries with links to powerful ministries… Foreign affairs editor Peter Beaumont in Baghdad uncovers a grim trail of abuse carried out by…