March 12, 2010
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 144 – 11th March 2010: Fight for health records heats up
UK ranked 6 in global list of repressive regimes Continue reading
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Decade Of The Drone: America’s Aerial Assassins By Rick Rozoff
2010 is the tenth and deadliest year in Washingtons use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for targeted assassinations and untargeted collateral damage. Originally designed for battlefield surveillance and reconnaissance, albeit often to call in lethal military strikes, drones have been employed by the U.S. since 2001 to identify and kill human targets. Continue reading
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US-NATO versus Russia: Towards a Regional War in the Caucasus? By Eric Walberg
Georgia is eager for another war, but there are other fires there which refuse to die — Russia’s battles with terrorism and separatists and Azerbaijans bleeding wound in ethnic Armenian Nagorno Karabakh. Continue reading
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Pambazuka Africa News Digest, Vol 120, Issue 1 – 11 March, 2010
The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Continue reading
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The Disappearing Male: From Virility to Sterility
The Disappearing Male takes a close and disturbing look at what many doctors and researchers now suspect are responsible for many of these problems: a class of common chemicals that are ubiquitous in our world. Continue reading
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Has The Washington Post gone too far?
By hiring former Bush administration speechwriter Marc Thiessen — the second former Bush speechwriter to whom it has given a regular column — The Washington Post has crossed the line. Thiessen is a serial misinformer. And he shouldn’t be rewarded with the audience or credibility that a regular column provides. Continue reading
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NACLA Update 3/11/10 New NACLA Report – Honduras: Whitewashing the Coup
12 March, 2010 — North American Congress on Latin America Available Now! Honduras: Whitewashing the Coup March/April 2010: Since the June 28 military coup in Honduras, the country’s de facto authorities have maintained a by now well-established track record of attempting to conceal their anti-democratic, violent disposition. This edition of the NACLA Report examines this Continue reading
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Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa By John Vidal
Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13-million people needing food aid, but paradoxically the government is offering at least 7.5 million acres of its most fertile land to rich countries and some of the world’s most wealthy individuals to export food for their own populations. Continue reading
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2010 Rosemary Award for Worst Open Government Performance Goes to Federal Chief Information Officers’ Council
National Security Archive cites CIO Council for “lifetime failure” To address crisis in government e-mail preservation Continue reading
The New Dark Age 