Archive for November, 2002
In First-Ever Ruling, Secret Appeals Court Allows Expanded Government Spying on U.S. Citizens
“- Ruling for the first time in its history, the ultra-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review today gave the green light to a Justice Department bid to broadly expand its powers to spy on U.S. citizens.
"We are deeply disappointed with the decision, which suggests that this special court exists only to rubberstamp government applications [...]
Did the United Nations Authorize "No-Fly" Zones Over Iraq? By Chris?
“American and British war planes have been fired on several times in recent days while patrolling "no-fly" zones over Iraq. The Bush administration calls these attacks a breach of the United Nations Security Council resolution calling for the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq. Russia and other U.N. members disagree. Who’s right?”
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Estimating the Casualties of the First Gulf War
“March 6, 1992: The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Census Bureau demographer assigned to estimate the number of Iraqis killed during the Gulf War will be fired. Beth Osborne Daponte estimates that 86,000 men, 40,000 women and 32,000 children died at the hands of American-led coalition forces, during the domestic rebellions that followed and [...]
Why We’re Going to War
In case you missed it! Tom Tomorrow does it again…
This Modern World
The Evil That Is the DMCA
“Much has been written about what’s wrong with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). After all, it’s been used to jail programmers, threaten professors, and censor publications, and because of it, foreign scientists have avoided traveling to the U.S. and prominent researchers have withheld their work. In a white paper about the unintended consequences of [...]
Power Eludes China’s Women
“The five women named to the policy-making Central Committee make up barely 2.5 percent of that influential body — an all-time low in the 53-year history of the People’s Republic of China.
The only good news for China’s feminists was the promotion of state councilor and former trade minister Wu Yi to the otherwise male-dominated, 24-member [...]
STOP GLOBAL AIDS NOW
“Last week, senior White House officials, in a meeting with AIDS activists, made it plain that President Bush is going to insist on underfunding the fight against global AIDS until disproven or underesourced programs have delivered the results they are unable to produce. The childish banality of the Administration is would be laughable, if there [...]
Part-time profs try to strike a new bargain
“Nearly half of campus faculty are now part time, according to a report released last week by the American Council on Education (ACE). According to the analysis of federal data for all types of higher-education institutions, the number of part-time faculty has grown 79 percent over the past two decades, to more than 400,000 out [...]
Iraq: The Economic Consequences of War
“It seems likely that Americans are underestimating the economic commitment involved in a war with Iraq.”
The New York Review of Books
Homeland Bill Rider Aids Drugmakers
Nothing like adding a few kickbacks in there to make the homeland more secure!
“Lawyers for parents of autistic children suing pharmaceutical companies over childhood vaccines charged yesterday that a new section in the homeland bill — passed on Wednesday by the House and now before the Senate — would keep the lawsuits out of state [...]
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