UK mass surveillance bill becomes law
The UK’s Investigatory Powers Bill (PDF) was given royal assent and became law on Nov. 29. The bill gives the UK’s intelligence agencies a wide variety of tools to monitor the online…
The UK’s Investigatory Powers Bill (PDF) was given royal assent and became law on Nov. 29. The bill gives the UK’s intelligence agencies a wide variety of tools to monitor the online…
…his home for weeks. He has also filed a lawsuit alleging that Guo Wengui and his associates unlawfully targeted him through online death threats and a campaign of character assassination….
…memorable communal carnage of my adult life. I had witnessed it remotely, from my laptop in an overheated apartment in Brooklyn. I had accessed news websites online but hadn’t sought…
…and the United Arab Emirates. A senior US official said the UAE had contributed 12 aircraft. (Middle East Online, March 25) Qatar has sent warplanes to patrol over Libya, becoming…
…Immigration: Questions and Answers (Monthly Review Press, July 2007). This story first appeared Nov. 30 in MR Zine, online journal of Monthly Review. RESOURCES Michelle Malkin, “Illegal Loans: A Criminal…
…was to maintain full responsibility for “external security” throughout the “interim period.” (Morris, 2001, p. 624; Usher, p. 19; text online at al-Haq) In an evident move to appease hardliners,…
…Reuters, March 30, 2006 http://forum.grasscity.com/general/88583-pentagon-plans-gigantic-explosion-nevada-site.html Scientists Say Planned Blast a Part of Nuclear Testing The Las Vegas Sun, April 6, 2006 Online at CommonDreams http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0406-06.htm Experts: Divine Strake ‘mushroom cloud’…
…tension. The Columbia River Treaty, negotiated to apportion waters to be affected by the Libby Dam in 1960, had already expired when the dam came online in 1975. Now, with…
…This Orwellian juxtaposition of war and peace is from a new video posted online by US soldiers stationed in Paraguay. The video footage and other military activity in this heart…
…Online, Nov. 19; The Guardian, Nov. 18; Lebanon Now, Oct. 31) The UN Security Council will on Nov. 21 discuss the refusal of Yemen‘s President Ali Abdullah Saleh to hand…
…man and a Muslim woman in Sol. (Middle East Online, March 9) Also March 9, attackers armed with knives and machetes waded into hundreds of pro-democracy activists in Cairo’s Tahrir…
…around the world—including e-mails of appreciation from listeners in Alaska, the Dominican Republic, and Europe. The audio file archives will be available online at Earth Cycles. ——— Brenda Norrell has…