Daily Archives: August 30, 2008 »
SchNEWS DRILLS FOR THE TRUTH IN PEAK OIL THEORY
SchNEWS | From Transition Town workshops to the city slickers at the Financial Times (to over-excited pieces in ill-researched journals like SchNEWS), there’s been more and more interest in ‘Peak Oil’. Perhaps it’s got
Read More »Bush Seeks to Affirm a Continuing War on Terror
By ERIC LICHTBLAU | WASHINGTON — Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush’s
Read More »Protesters denied access to attorneys, forced to march in leg shackles, ACLU charges
By John Byrne | The ACLU issued a stinging rebuke to the Denver Police Department Wednesday, alleging that the department may have violated laws and constitutional rights of protesters arrested outside the Democratic National
Read More »POLITICS DRIVEN BY FICTION: MADE FOR TV
By Sam Smith | The confluence of Barack Obama’s stadium acceptance extravaganza and John McCain’s pick for vice president offers superfluous but final proof that Americans have been consigned to spend their lives as
Read More »Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes
By Bruce Schneier | Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, has finally admitted that a ten-year-old error has caused votes to be dropped. It’s unclear if this error is random or systematic.
Read More »Blair has no right to lecture on the rule of law
By Inayat Bunglawala | Britain’s foreign secretary, David Miliband, has been lecturing Russia on the need to respect Ukrainian and Georgian sovereignty. He doesn’t seem to realise how incongruous this sounds to much of
Read More »3,000 Vets, War Protesters Hand-Deliver Their Message
By Patti Thorn | DNEVER – “Follow Us. Welcome to Denver,” read the electronic sign on the police vehicle. And with that conciliatory gesture, an unpermitted march for peace was allowed to proceed Wednesday
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