Glenn Greenwald calls our attention to the apparent slimeball tactics of U.S. politician Steny Hoyer, who pays lip service to opposing immunity for the lawbreaking US Telecoms Companies who willingly gave the U.S. government unlimited access to private domestic traffic. While he claims to oppose it, …
News continues to filter out of the US mainstream media. Bits of news, that is. But mostly bafflegab lead by the Pentagon and the Administration. If you think there's a grain of truth in US news coverage, you should read what the NY Times has to say. And here's Citizen Greenwald's reaction to it …
In the U.S. Congress, the House Democrats finally stood up to be counted, voting through their own bill which does not provide a unilateral amnesty for all the law-breaking that went on after 2001-09-11 by the big telecoms violating everybody's privacy. Although this bill is rather unlikely to get …
I meant to write this for New Year's but got distracted. Perhaps it's a case of "better late than never". I predicted that 2008 will be a year of several "tipping points".
First the Good News: I had planned to say that 2008 would be the year that Blu-ray definitively toppled …
No, this blog entry is not about who will win or should win. It's about something more fundamental.
Some United States Citizens no doubt believe their country has free and fair elections. Some, perhaps, also still refuse to admit that they are no longer living in "the home of the brave and the …
"It was this week in 1974 that Richard Nixon resigned the presidency after getting caught lying and violating the Constitution. Remember when that kind of thing used to get you kicked out of office?" -- Jay Leno, The Tonight Show, quoted in the FFF daily.
All I can say is: Read it. Read it and understand why so much is wrong with the world today. We've been saying for decades that U.S. policy is way out of line; it's nice to see the mainstream press catching up.
Related reading in this Toronto Sun article: Bush's next disaster? The Sun often takes …
None of this is to disparage the truly massive harm done (and still being done!) to persons of color, especially in the United States of America, which are well known and well documented. But just to point that violence against ethnic groups is not limited to whites.
Strange but true - estimates …
I used to think, and tell people, that the United States' preoccupation with international meddling began in 1898, with the sinking of the Maine and the resulting Spanish-American war. But I was wrong. It started earlier. Five years earlier, with the illegal annexation by force of a small, …
Eric Margolis provides a damning indictment of Bush's latest criminal aggession overseas in the name of power^H^H^H^H^Hright^H^H^H^H^Hre-election.