Yahoo ! implicated in third cyberdissident trial US company’s collaboration with Chinese courts highlighted in Jiang Lijun case
Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy of the verdict in the case of Jiang Lijun, sentenced to four years in prison in November 2003 for his online pro-democracy articles, showing that Yahoo ! helped Chinese police [...]

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Gaza Strip has been under heavy rocket attacks from Israel since Friday, said a spokesman for the Israeli military.
Israel responded to an attack of Qassam -type missiles by throwing about 2,000 rockets in the last couple of weeks, a statement from the Israeli military spokesman read. The statement also gave news of the Israeli military [...]

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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been doing a series of softball interviews with hosts like Rush Limbaugh in an effort to rehabilitate his image. On Monday, Rumsfeld appeared on the Bill Cunningham Show and had this to say about the retired generals criticizing his management of the Iraq war:
Of course the implication that there [...]

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Usually watching CNN with one eye as we blog from our undisclosed location doesn’t give us much new fodder, except for the occasional “stuck landing gear” crisis. But today we are aghast at the coverage of Chinese President Hu Jintao at the White House.
At an outdoor ceremony, Bush told Hu:
China has become successful because the [...]

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Two people have been charged in Germany for what is considered in “liberated” Germany as a terrible crime: not believing post World War two Russian anti-German war propaganda.
One of the men is 41 year old Germar Rudolf. Rudolf had been sited as a witness in a German court in another holocaust trial. He was asked [...]

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By now everyone knows, or at least should know that all races are equal. In the past people from different races didn’t get the same average scores on IQ tests. That could give the missleading impression that races are not that equal after all. Now the problem has been solved. Students in schools with high [...]

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Yesterday on Rush Limbaugh, embattled Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that those who criticize the Iraq war are being manipulated by terrorists, including Zarqawi and bin Laden, through the U.S. media:
There have always been people who have opposed wars…I think we just have to accept it, that people have a right to say what [...]

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Abu Musab Al Zarqawi has been presented both by the Bush administration and the Western media as the mastermind behind the “insurgency” in Iraq, allegedly responsible for the massacres of Iraqi civilians.
Zarqawi is the outside enemy of America. The Bush administration in official statements, including presidential speeches, national security documents, etc. has repeatedly pointed to [...]

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Bush won’t rule out nuclear strike on Iran
President Bush refused on Tuesday to rule out nuclear strikes against Iran if “diplomacy fails” [AMI: The kind of WMD diplomacy used before the war of aggression against Iraq] to curb the Islamic Republic’s atomic ambitions.
Iran, which says its nuclear program is purely peaceful, told world powers it [...]

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by John Stokes
New studies make the Bush administration’s “liberation” argument for a ‘pre-emptive’ war against Iraq seem questionable.
The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by U.S.-led coalition forces has been responsible for the death of at least 150,000 civilians (not including certain of Iraq), reveals a compilitation of scientific studies and corroborated eyewitness testimonies.
The majority [...]

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