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El Salvador: Water Inc. and the Criminalization of Protest
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 11:28 AM EDT (news.nacla.org)
Last year, when residents in Santa Eduviges entered their second month without running water, everyone knew something had to be done. A town assembly was called.
How do you build a new internet?
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 11:24 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
How do you cut online crime, tackle child pornography, halt crippling viruses and get rid of spam? The answers could lie in a £200m successor to the internet that computer experts are already referring to as the next rendition of the virtual world.
Busted & Crimes of The Times
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 9:04 AM EDT (GregPalast.com)
Cutely buried in the 18th paragraph in a story about Alberto Gonzales on Sunday was a slyly-worded updated confession by the New York Times that, in 2004, the Bush Administration leaned on its editors to spike a story about illegal invasions of citizens' private records ("dat …
A Win in the Water War
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 9:02 AM EDT (Working In These Times)
Bill Lokyo never expected to find himself embroiled in a six-year battle over water with a multinational corporation and city officials in Stockton, Calif. "We all thought this would only be a one-year fight," Lokyo says.
An Unsolved Killing: What does the firing of a U.S. Attorney have to do with a murder case?
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 7:03 AM EDT (New Yorker)
Tom Wales was not supposed to be home on the night of October 11, 2001. Wales, an Assistant United States Attorney in Seattle, had planned to have dinner and spend the evening with his girlfriend, Marlis DeJongh, a court reporter who lived downtown.
Polls down, integrity questioned, Cheney hits airwaves
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 6:59 AM EDT (McClatchy)
WASHINGTON — Facing his lowest approval ratings ever and increasing scrutiny about the secrecy with which he operates, Vice President Dick Cheney is making the media rounds this week unapologetically backing some of the White House's more controversial actions.
Paraguay: A Laboratory for Latin America's New Militarism
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 6:54 AM EDT (UpsideDownWorld.org)
Two soldiers in Paraguay stand in front of a camera. One of them holds an automatic weapon. John Lennon's "Imagine" plays in the background. This Orwellian juxtaposition of war and peace is from a new video posted on Google by US soldiers stationed in Paraguay.
Latin American young 'lack water'
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 6:52 AM EDT (BBC News)
More than a third of children and teenagers in Latin America lack access to safe drinking water in their homes, a United Nations report says.
Pew draws questionable inferences about Venezuelan public opinion
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 3:55 AM EDT (lanr.blogspot.com)
The Pew Global Attitudes Project has recently drawn some questionable inferences from its polling data about Venezuela. These inferences, which appear to be ideologically-motivated, are being replicated in the U.S. press.
U.S. trade limits with Cuba to stay
Seeded on Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:03 PM EDT (McClatchy)
WASHINGTON — The House on Friday rejected an initiative to ease restrictions on U.S. agricultural exports to Cuba, virtually burying any chance that U.S. policy toward the island could be relaxed by Congress this year.
Southern Poverty Law Cener: Nativist News for July 31, 2007
Seeded on Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:01 PM EDT (Southern Poverty Law Center)
The head of the Minutemen movement Wednesday said the U.S. group caught more than 30 illegal aliens this weekend.
Political Consultants (Mercenaries) and the Business of 'Democracy' in Latin America
Seeded on Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:34 PM EDT ( IPS Inter Press Service)
Consulting firms notorious for orchestrating aggressive attacks on opponents in electoral campaigns, especially in Mexico and the United States, have been much in demand in Latin America in recent years.
R.J. Hillhouse: Intel Outsourcing at Heart of Gonzales Controversy
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:59 PM EDT (thespywhobilledme.com)
At the heart of the Constitutional dispute over domestic spying between current Attorney General Gonzales and former Attorney General John Ashcroft is corporate America. Almost all of the government data mining has been outsourced to corporations.
Rorschach and Awe: As Opposition Grows Over the APA's Policy Allowing Psychologists to Take Part in Military Interrogations, Vanity Fair Exposes How Two Psychologists Shaped the CIA's Torture Methods
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:41 PM EDT (Democracy Now!)
Vanity Fair reporter Katherine Eban unravels the central role of two CIA-contracted psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, in designing torture tactics for use on detainees held in secret CIA prisons around the world.
Leahy: Gonzales must clarify statements
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:55 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales must quickly clarify apparent contradictions in his testimony about warrantless spying or risk a possible perjury investigation, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday.
Power to the People: The Democracy Foundation's Plan to Create a Fourth Branch of Government
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:52 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Washington Dispatch: A nonprofit founded by presidential candidate Mike Gravel has been floating an ambitious proposal that would remake the framework of American democracy, allowing citizens to make laws through popular votes. Quixotic? Yes. Impractical? Maybe not.
The ethanol gold rush: How much is fools' gold?
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:40 AM EDT (NiemanWatchdog.org)
Politicians and Midwest farmers have jumped on the bandwagon but, as writer Joseph A. Davis points out, ethanol development involves many nasty trade-offs. And while 4 million cars on American roads can use an ethanol blend already, hardly any gas stations sell it. Why is that?
The Drug War's Collateral Damage
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:11 AM EDT (Working In These Times)
Those victimized by a crackdown on marijuana since the early '90s can be denied everything from food stamps to voting rights to the right to adopt a child
1934: The Plot Against America
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:41 AM EDT (Harper's Magazine)
In November 1934, federal investigators uncovered an amazing plot involving some two dozen senior businessmen, a good many of them Wall Street financiers, to topple the government of the United States and install a fascist dictatorship.
The leak designed to save Alberto Gonzales
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:28 AM EDT (Salon.com)
Anonymous sources seeking to protect Alberto Gonzales have leaked to the NYT the claim that what triggered the 2004 DOJ dispute over the NSA program "involved computer searches through massive electronic databases" -- i.e, "data mining" of the "records of the phone calls and e-ma …
An Iraqi Diaspora -- 1 in 7 Iraqis Have Fled Iraq As Refugees
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:25 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)
Two thousand Iraqis are fleeing their homes every day. It is the greatest mass exodus of people ever in the Middle East and dwarfs anything seen in Europe since the Second World War.
AP: New Details on Tillman's Death
Seeded on Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:09 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman's forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime, according to documents obta …
Running Dog Obama
Seeded on Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:05 PM EDT (ZNet)
Barack Obama's most recent attempt to prove his Harvard-certified safety to the doctrinal gatekeepers of the U.S. foreign policy establishment ought to make it clear once and for all that he is what the Maoists used to call a "running dog lackey of United States imperialism."
Venezuela's social spending spree
Seeded on Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:03 PM EDT (Marketplace)
About 20 percent of the nation's GDP goes into health and welfare programs, thanks to high oil prices. Even if prices drop, President Hugo Chavez might be able to keep the social spigot open. Dan Grech reports.
'I helped MI5. My reward: brutality and prison'
Seeded on Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:47 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
When Bisher al-Rawi agreed to work for the British government, he thought he was doing the right thing. He spent four gruelling years at Guantanamo Bay for his efforts. In this remarkable interview he breaks his silence and tells his extraordinary story to David Rose
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