Archive for November, 2004
Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
Michael D. Higgins says it all in his response to the killing of Margaret Hassan:The killing of Margaret Hassan is an appalling action. No cause is served by it. How could it? Margaret Hassan was somebody who gave her life to the most vulnerable people of Iraq, in the ...
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Monday, November 15th, 2004
This is why the United States is scared of the International Criminal Court. I'm sure his superiors will give him a little slap on the wrist, away from the public eye....
Posted in International law and structures | Comments Off on US marine kills (prone, unarmed) prisoner in Fallujah
Monday, November 15th, 2004
From the Guardian:The horrific conditions for those who remained in the city have begun to emerge in the last 24 hours as it became clear that US military claims of 'precision' targeting of insurgent positions were false.
Posted in International Affairs | Comments Off on Fallujah update
Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
Naomi Klein claims - and I believe her - that the US army is forbidding all men between 15 and 50 from leaving Fallujah. I try to avoid obscenities on my weblog, but sometimes it's hard.
Posted in International law and structures | Comments Off on More war crimes
Monday, November 8th, 2004
While I agree with Clancy that this is a well-crafted piece of rhetoric, it annoyed me tremendously. And not in a "she's telling upsetting truths" sense. Here we have, seemingly, a woman who doesn't want Roe-v-Wade overturned, who believes third trimester abortions are sometimes necessary, who believes that gay marriage ...
Posted in Electoral politics | Comments Off on A plague on both your houses
Monday, November 8th, 2004
Paul at MediaGeek points out that RHZ aren't particularly innovative in proposing a network of micro transmitters to pull content off the internet. I must also admit that the project seemed less developed, as I looked into it, than I had thought at the beginning. For instance, the fact that ...
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Monday, November 8th, 2004
I should be asleep at the moment, but I just turned on CBS news by chance and they're announcing that the Americans have 'captured' the hospital in Fallujah because they were - I kid you not - worried it would be used to treat injured insurgents. Now I am by ...
Posted in International law and structures | Comments Off on Targeting medical facilities in wartime
Sunday, November 7th, 2004
AMN #3.
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Sunday, November 7th, 2004
Latest edition of Media Matters 2004-11-07, Bob McChesney's media analysis show, on WILL-AM 580.
Posted in Corporate media | Comments Off on Media Matters – with Norman Solomon
Saturday, November 6th, 2004
Yet another example of the concept of radio broadcasting being reshaped and reconceptualised:The RHZ Amateur Radio Network is a proposition, an experiment, and a challenge." (from the schematic)It's not quite what I envisaged when I called for a modification of podcasting - it operates at another stage in the chain, ...
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