Month: December 2005

UK Secrecy Act muffled torture docs sent to Boomer – HERE

Posted by ghandi | Dec 29, 2005 |

Dear **** It’s not the al-Jazeera Memo, but these are some more documents that the UK Government are trying to suppress with the threat of prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. They detail our use of intelligence...

(Some) Forgotten Stories of 2005

Posted by soj | Dec 29, 2005 |

Well as 2005 draws to a close, I thought it was time to look back on all the forgotten stories over the past year.Some of them made quite a furor when they first broke, but were soon forgotten. Others were barely...

Environmental alert: massive pesticide spraying of wilderness proposed

Posted by Boudicca | Dec 29, 2005 |

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed to apply massive amounts of pesticides to public lands in 17 Western states. The BLM claims these pesticides need to be applied to forests, rangelands and aquatic areas in order...

World/Open Discussion

Posted by BooMan | Dec 29, 2005 |

Use as a bulletin board.

Chicago: City of the Pinched Shoulders

Posted by Dean Pajevic | Dec 29, 2005 |

And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. – Carl Sandburg Of wanton hunger and...