Archive for March, 2003
American Military Operation Name Generating Device
Click here to randomly generate 20 names for US Military operations.
Of course, the best name is the one The Onion came up with:
“Operation Piss off the Planet”
Liberation or occupation? Iraqi’s decide
War planners say “we overestimated the appeal of liberation.” Perhaps it would be closer to the truth to say that Iraqis are not at all lacking in a desire for liberation. They simply doubt that that’s what’s on offer.
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Unicode Domain Names!
Although Unicode isn’t explicitly mentioned:
Internet domain names in languages other than English should be available within the next few weeks or months, the chairman of the Internet’s key oversight body said Wednesday.
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U.S. Marines pay the price of rigged war-games with their lives.
Way back in August, the Army Times reported a story about how a retired U.S. officer resigned his role as commander of enemy forces in the biggest war games in U.S. military history. He did so because he believed these games were “rigged” and “scripted” to ensure a U.S. military victory. Only the Guardian U.K. […]
Librarians fight for your rights
Libraries who have been visited by the FBI can’t mention that fact AFTER the visit, but many libraries and library systems are becoming pro-active and getting ready in case the feds do come to the door. To this end they have begun making staff and patrons aware of the Act and its implications. […]
Robert Fisk views raw footage of Al-Djazaira videotape from Basra
Two British soldiers lie dead on a Basra roadway, a small Iraqi girl — victim of a US/UK airstrike — is brought to hospital with her intestines spilling our of her stomach, a terribly wounded woman screams in agony as doctors try to take off her black dress. An Iraqi general, surrounded by hundreds of […]
Each crisis will draw U.S. forces further into the region
So events that may seem negative–Hezbollah for the first time targeting American civilians; U.S. soldiers preparing for war with Syria–while unfortunate in themselves, are actually part of the hawks’ broader agenda. Each crisis will draw U.S. forces further into the region and each countermove in turn will create problems that can only be fixed by […]
Lack of safe drinking water poses the risk of serious humanitarian disaster
The sudden collapse of a population’s water supply is the most serious of humanitarian emergencies. People affected by a natural disaster, such as an earthquake or a flood, are more likely to fall ill and die from diseases related to inadequate water and sanitation than from any other single cause. And the effects are seen […]
Fact checking
Doesn’t it bother anyone that the US government made claims about Iraq’s nuclear program based on documents which the most rudimentary fact-checking (on Google!) could have shown were fake?
It took Baute’s team only a few hours to determine that the documents were fake. The agency had been given about a half-dozen letters and other […]
Who are the NLA?
One of the many hard questions about the war in Iraq is what the United States will do about something called the National Liberation Army. The NLA is a well-trained brigade of perhaps 15,000 men outfitted with heavy artillery, rockets, and tanks. Its troops are headquartered less than 30 miles west of Baghdad, though some […]
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