Archive for May, 2002
Military Sees Iraq Invasion Put on Hold
“The Joint Chiefs of Staff have waged a determined behind-the-scenes campaign to persuade the Bush administration to reconsider an aggressive posture toward Iraq in which war was regarded as all but inevitable. This included a secret briefing at the White House earlier this month for President Bush by Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks, who as […]
Doctors urge rubber bullet ban
“Rubber bullets are unsafe and should never be used by authorities to control riots, doctors have warned.”
(BBC)
Digital Video Recorders Give Advertisers Pause
“Digital video recorders, or DVR’s, make it so easy to program and play back shows
Face Recognition Technology Fails Again, ACLU Claims
“Early results of face-recognition surveillance tests at Palm Beach International Airport suggest the technology is proving again to be unreliable, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said this week.”
(Newsbytes)
Land Reforms: An Evaluation of World Bank strategies
“. . . whatever may have been the extent of success, almost every country, at least officially, recognised the need of state-led redistributive land reform in promoting economic development, contributing to equity and growth, challenging socio-political hierarchies, and, in the long run, providing political stability. Countries acknowledged the fact that high absolute ground rent resulting […]
Bush’s Afghan Plan Questioned
“Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who favors expanding the international peacekeeping force beyond Kabul, has circulated a letter to Bush among other Senate Republicans who have also begun to doubt the administration position, sources said. McCain declined to discuss the letter. Hyde, too, said he supports expansion of the security force outside the Afghan capital.
Senate Foreign […]
UN to feed 500,000 needy Palestinians
“Amid signs of hunger and malnutrition in the West Bank and Gaza, the UN World Food Programme launched an emergency operation yesterday to help feed half a million of the most needy Palestinians. … A recent World Bank study found that up to half of Palestinians in the occupied territories have incomes below the official […]
Under Cheney, Halliburton Altered Policy on Accounting
“During Vice President Dick Cheney’s tenure as its chief executive, the Halliburton Corporation altered its accounting policies so it could report as revenue more than $100 million in disputed costs on big construction projects, public filings by the company show. Halliburton did not disclose the change to investors for over a year.”
(NY Times)
‘Widespread failure’ in US visa fiasco
“The two men had applied to change their tourist visas into student visas in September 2000, after they had enrolled on a professional pilots’ course at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida.
But the INS was so slow that no decision had been taken when they finished the course at the end of that year.
Both men left […]
Afghan Women Emerge As Elections Take Place
“Recently a group of female schoolteachers walked into the town
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
