Archive: March 2008
” … ‘a collection of powerful right-wing politicos, who include, or have included, Sam Brownback, Ed Meese, John Ashcroft, James Inhofe and Rick Santorum.’ During the 1940s this religious organization ‘reached out to former and not-so-former Nazis, and its fascination with that exemplary leader, Adolf Hitler, has continued, along with ties to a whole bestiary of murderous thugs.’ … ”
Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation IndependentBy Geoffrey Lean March 30, 2008 Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and
Vanity Fair Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the “body shops”—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower, including a lot of the “expertise” behind the Iraq war. by DONALD L. BARLETT and JAMES B. STEELE March 2007 One of the great staples of
March 30, 2008 Andrés Gaudin Human rights violators and important witnesses disappear mysteriously Murders, suspicious suicides, kidnapping, hundreds of death threats, concealment of witnesses and evidence. All are tools used by some ultra-right wing military officers with links to the 1976-83 Argentine dictatorship. They are trying to obstruct justice in human rights trials, hoping to escape without a conviction. Eighteen
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and IAN URBINANew York TimesMarch 29, 2008 Federal investigators have developed information that the prostitute whom Eliot Spitzer is said to have met in Washington last month has some relationship with a man who the authorities contend is an associate of organized crime, according to people with knowledge of the matter. It was unclear on Friday
Baltimore Chronicle28 March 2008 For a militarist empire, a “surge” is like heroin; the effectiveness eventually wears off, and you need another hit. Thus in the last few months, the Bush regime has been relentlessly turning up the heat on Sadr, arresting his lieutenants, killing his men, trying to goad him into breaking his ceasefire, and plunging the nation into
Rory Kennedy´By Staff GAINESVILLE – Award-winning documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy was at Brenau University’s Gainesville campus Thursday night to meet with students, screen one of her films and give a lecture. The event, co-sponsored by The Women’s Center at Brenau, was held at Pearce Auditorium. Kennedy gave a presentation, titled “The Camera Doesn’t Lie: Social Change through Documentary Filmmaking.”
William Hyland, Who Guided Foreign Policy, Dies at 79NYTBy DOUGLAS MARTINMarch 29, 2008 William G. Hyland, who helped shape United States foreign policy, particularly toward the Soviet Union, as a top-level bureaucrat and then became editor of the influential journal Foreign Affairs, died on March 25 in Fairfax, Va. He was 79. The cause was an aortic aneurysm, his son
WASHINGTON (AP) — An aide to President Bush has resigned because of his alleged misuse of grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development when he worked for a Cuban democracy organization. Felipe Sixto was promoted on March 1 as a special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs and stepped forward on March 20 to reveal his alleged
Jane Kay, Chronicle Environment WriterMarch 6, 2008 PESTICIDE SPRAY PLAN Previous stories: PR firm’s no-bid deal scrutinized (3/12)Pesticide maker a generous political donor (3/08)Q&A on chemical CheckMate (2/23)Bills aimed to curb moth eradication program (3/11)Migden pushes for a moratorium (2/20)Airplanes will drop pesticide over the Bay Area (2/15) The light brown apple moth may not be the voracious crop threat