Daily Archives: November 6, 2008 »
How not to do a PhD on George Orwell
By Horatio Morpurgo | Any English-speaker to whom Vaclav Havel has mattered owes a debt they’re probably unaware of to Paul Wilson. His work as the Czech writer’s translator began thirty years ago but
Read More »Obama advisers discuss preparations for war on Iran
By Peter Symonds | On the eve of the US elections, the New York Times cautiously pointed on Monday to the emergence of a bipartisan consensus in Washington for an aggressive new strategy towards
Read More »Forget ID cards, those in charge can’t keep anything secret
By Ross Brewster | It’s exactly a year since a computer disc holding the details of 25 million people mysteriously went missing. You would think that a Government still misguidedly propagating the idea of
Read More »City Airport to run ID cards trial
By Danny Brierley | LONDON City Airport has agreed to a trial of the Government’s identity card scheme, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was due to announce today. Workers at the site in Newham and
Read More »Post Offices could take your fingerprints
By Karl Flinders | Government will ask businesses to bid to become centres to collect biometric data for ID cards, in the latest move in its plan to create a biometric database of the
Read More »Daunting Set of Crises Face First “Wartime” Transition Since 1968
By Jason Ditz | President-elect Barack Obama will be the first United States President inaugurated during wartime since Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election in the midst of the Vietnam War. And while
Read More »NewScientist: Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans
NewScientist | The latest request from the Pentagon jars the senses. At least, it did mine. They are looking for contractors to provide a “Multi-Robot Pursuit System” that will let packs of robots “search
Read More »17 US Attacks On Pakistan Since September – Media Applauds
By Bzangy Groink | One of the issues most vexing to Pakistan is the ongoing missile strikes by US unmanned Predator drones, or UAVs, into Pakistan’s tribal areas. Since 1 September, there have been at
Read More »Mass Media and Mass Politics
By James Petras | The role of the mass media (MM) in influencing mass and class behavior has been a central concern among critical writers, especially since the turn of the Twentieth century. Debates and
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