Daily Archives: August 20, 2008 »
Anti-Union Groups Run Orwellian Ads
PR Watch | The Center for Union Facts, one of lobbyist Rick Berman‘s front groups, is railing against the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that would “allow employees at a work place to unionize
Read More »Sweatshops on Trial in North Carolina
By Phil Mattera | In April, I wrote about the efforts of my son Thomas and other students at the University of North Carolina to get UNC’s administration to endorse the Designated Suppliers Program
Read More »Mobile Phones and the Orwellian Society
By Daniel Soar | For a moment in the late 1990s, it looked as though mobile phones might make us free. You could work in the park, be available when you wanted to be,
Read More »McCain’s Mostly Ignored Gambling Problem
By Stephen C. Rose | Today the Internet is rife with speculation about whether John McCain heard the questions Rick Warren asked Barack Obama. McCain seems to have done predictably well answering the questions, whether
Read More »Marijuana gave cancer sufferer her life back
Legalise Cannabis Alliance | A BREAST cancer victim made medical history recently, as the first person in Scotland to be prescribed cannabis as a treatment for chronic pain. Former National Health Service nurse Jeanie
Read More »Bush Covered up Musharraf Ties with Qaeda, Khan
(IPS) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s resignation Monday brings to an end an extraordinarily close relationship between Musharraf and the George W. Bush administration, in which Musharraf was lavished with political and economic benefits
Read More »The US Missile Defence System
The Guardian | It’s a novel way to take your own life. Just as Russia demonstrates what happens to former minions that annoy it, Poland agrees to host a US missile defence base. The Russians,
Read More »US Accused of War Crimes Over Torture Methods
The use of torture by the US Government in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001 has come under increasing criticism. In 1863 at the height of the
Read More »Data From Checkpoints To Be Kept for 15 Years
By Ellen Nakashima | The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on all U.S. citizens crossing by land,
Read More »The Most Dangerous Man in America
Werther | The first crisis over North Korea’s nuclear program arose in late 1994. It was obvious there was not much the United States could do to step in unilaterally and disarm the North
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