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July 19, 2008
(The Independent) American inequality highlighted by 30-year gap in life expectancy (0)
 
July 17, 2008
(The Herald) UK is now 'almost the worst area to live in Europe' (0)
(YouTube) theREALnews: The Pakistan-Afghanistan riddle (0)
(YouTube) MSNBC: House of Representatives vote on articles of impeachment (0)
(YouTube) MSNBC: Does the media treat McCain differently than Obama? (0)
(CNN) Columbian President: Betancourt rescuers used Red Cross (violating the Geneva conventions) (0)
 
July 16, 2008
(YouTube) CSPAN: Rep Nadler (D-NY) Judiciary on War Crimes & Impeachment (0)
(CNN) Hezbollah hands over remains to Israel in prisoner swap (0)
 
July 15, 2008
(CNN) From 'untouchable' to role model: Looking at the caste system in India (0)
 
July 13, 2008
(The Independent) Op-ed: A dangerous tit for tat looms as negotiations stall on Iran's refusal to climb down on the nuclear issue, yet the positions of Washington and Tehran are not that far apart. The US president should agree to hold talks without pre-conditions (0)
 
July 11, 2008
(YouTube) MSNBC: McCain stammers when asked about birth control (0)
(CNN) Rove ignores committee's subpoena, refuses to testify (1)
 
July 10, 2008
(YouTube) MSNBC: Sen Feingold talks about the FISA bill going through (0)
(YouTube) MSNBC: Vietnam Vet Challenges John McCain on Vet Voting Record (0)
(YouTube) CSPAN: Sen Durbin Questions AG Mukasey on Torture/War Crimes Prosecution (1)
 
July 07, 2008
(YouTube) CSPAN: Dodd talks about FISA (0)
 
July 02, 2008
(CNN) Survey: Denmark 'happiest' country in the world (again) (0)
(Yahoo News) U.S. leads world in substance abuse, WHO finds (1)
(YouTube) MSNBC: Seymour Hersh looks at American military plans for Iran (1)
(YouTube) MSNBC: General Wesley Clark defends his position on John McCain's executive military experience (0)
(The Independent) Leaders at the Egyptian AU summit were unwilling to publicly criticise Mugabe (0)
(CNN) 90 percent of registered voters view John McCain as being patriotic (1)
 
July 01, 2008
(The Guardian) CCTV doesn't keep us safe, yet the cameras are everywhere (0)
 
June 24, 2008
(CNN) Israel kills senior IJ member in the West Bank, IJ fires rockets from Gaza, Israel claims cease-fire has been violated by Hamas (1)
 
June 20, 2008
(Daily Kos) Bush gets defensive about America and freedom (0)
(YouTube) MSNBC talks about the pending FISA bill (0)
 
June 19, 2008
(gamesindustry.biz) A critical look at video game degrees (1)
 
June 13, 2008
(The Guardian) Supreme court ruling on right to trial puts Guantánamo future in doubt (0)
 
June 12, 2008
(Time) Obama's Anti-Rumor Plan (0)
 
June 11, 2008
(YouTube) Dennis Kucinich Calls For Impeachment (2)
 
June 05, 2008
(The Guardian) Will the real John McCain please stand up (0)
 
May 18, 2008
(CSPAN Junkie) Iraq Veterans (Against The War) Testify To Congress (0)
 
May 12, 2008
(YouTube) Abraham Lincoln and George Bush: War Powers Presidency (0)
 
May 11, 2008
(The Guardian) Eyeing robots whose brains would work just like ours (0)
(CNN) Analysis: Could Clinton land the VP nomination? (0)
(Time) Is it time to invade Burma? (0)
 
May 02, 2008
(CNN) United States places some conditions on Al-Jazeera cameraman's release, who was never charged after six years at Gitmo, including one that prevents him from any political activity (1)
 
May 01, 2008
(Shacknews) GTA 4's Production Budget Estimated at $100M (0)
 
April 30, 2008
(YouTube) Jimmy Carter explains to CNN how meeting with Hamas is different than meeting with al Qaeda (0)
 
April 28, 2008
(YouTube) Israeli Airstrike Kills Mother and Four Children (0)
 
April 25, 2008
(YouTube) BBC looks at Errol Morris' (The Fog of War) new documentary about the Abu Ghraib photos (0)
 
April 24, 2008
(The Guardian) US claims video shows North Korea helped build Syrian reactor (0)
(The Guardian) Q&A: the Gaza blockade (0)
(Wikipedia) The United States Supreme Court's test for determining whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene (0)
(The Independent) Women and white workers prove saviours for Clinton (1)
(CNN) Carter talks more about bringing peace to Israel and Palestine (0)
 
April 23, 2008
(news.com) Net neutrality battle returns to the U.S. Senate (0)
 
April 22, 2008
(news24.com) Senior al Qaeda member lashes out against Iran (0)
(The Independent) Saudi women appeal for legal freedoms (0)
(YouTube) Baracky: The Movie (0)
(YouTube) Three typical super-delegates (0)
(YouTube) Hillary Clinton on Countdown (0)
 
April 21, 2008
(CNN) Carter outlines Hamas' terms for peace deal (2)
 
April 19, 2008
(BBC) Action urged to keep net neutral (0)
 
April 18, 2008
(YouTube) Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-California) talks about the Bush administration's intentions regarding Iran (0)
 
April 16, 2008
(YouTube) Joe Biden talks about his foreign policy speech (0)
(YouTube) C-SPAN coverage of the U.S. Congress discussing the Bush administration's potential plans to attack Iran (0)
 
April 15, 2008
(Newsweek) Interview: A Renegade Against Greenpeace (0)
(Newsweek) Q&A: Curfews, headscarf bans and mass detentions. A Uighur activist discusses the protests against Beijing. (0)
(YouTube) CNN covers Jimmy Carter meeting with Israeli leaders as well as Hamas (2)
 
April 14, 2008
(Politico) The case against Obama (1)
(The Independent) IMF warns rising food prices may spark more riots like Haiti (0)
(The Independent) 'Now we have the technology that can make a cloned child' (0)
 
April 09, 2008
(YouTube) BBC: General Petraeus Reports (1)
 
April 03, 2008
(YouTube) Senate Iraq War Hearings - Senator Joe Biden discusses America's lack of credibility (0)
 
April 01, 2008
(BBC) UK government-backed 226-page report on Safer Children in a Digital World (1)
 
March 31, 2008
(YouTube) MSNBC interviews CIA Director Gen Hayden (0)
 
March 29, 2008
(YouTube) Baghdad reaching boiling point (0)
 
March 28, 2008
(CNN) High-profile Clinton fundraisers upset that Pelosi won't support superdelegates overturning the will of the voters (0)
(CNN) U.S. suspends supplier of arms to Afghanistan (0)
 
March 27, 2008
(CNN) The $53 trillion asteroid heading towards America (0)
(news.com.au) Earliest known human remains found in Europe (0)
 
March 26, 2008
(Time) Why Ron Paul Scares the GOP (0)
 
March 21, 2008
(BBC) Grappling with global terror conundrum (0)
(BBC) Life in the 'open prison' of Gaza (0)
(BBC) Obama gets Richardson endorsement (0)
(BBC) Greece passes controversial pension reform bill (0)
(BBC) France to reduce nuclear warheads by one third (0)
(YouTube) Obama's speech on race relations (0)
 
March 20, 2008
(YouTube) Olbermann looks at McCain's linking of Iran with al Qaeda (0)
(YouTube) Olbermann looks at Iraq, five years later (0)
(The Guardian) Israel-Palestine dispute moves on to Facebook (0)
(The Guardian) In ever-widening security cordon, a palpable fear [in China] (0)
(The Guardian) Bush: "Because we [invaded Iraq], the world is better and the United States of America is safer." (1)
 
March 19, 2008
(The Independent) China prepares for crackdown by clearing Tibetan capital of witnesses (1)
(The Independent) Warlords turn to ivory trade to fund slaughter of humans (0)
(The Independent) Iran poll delivers challenger to president (0)
(The Independent) Looking at life in Basra, Iraq (1)
 
March 18, 2008
(Gizmodo) Boston Dynamics uses $10 million Darpa research grant to create BigDog: A quadruped robot that can climb through rubble and snow, can jump over obstacles, and can balance itself on iced ground, all while carrying 340 pounds of stuff (0)
(BBC) Online advert system Phorm is illegal in the UK, the Foundation for Information Policy Research (Fipr), has argued in an open letter (0)
 
March 17, 2008
(Next Generation) The Making of Grand Theft Auto IV (0)
 
March 16, 2008
(YouTube) Debate about secret session in House of Representatives to discuss classified FISA information (0)
 
March 14, 2008
(Guardian) Tibet gripped by violent clashes (0)
(Guardian) Q&A: Tibet and China (0)
(Newsweek) Venezuela's threats against Colombia could sink President Hugo Chávez, says a Harvard analyst (0)
(Newsweek) Israelis Want to Talk to Hamas (0)
(Newsweek) Iran: Reformists in Distress (2)
 
March 13, 2008
(Guardian) Can the US today really compare with Czechoslovakia in 1975? (0)
(Independent) Darfur's return to hell (0)
(Independent) How terrorists are made (0)
 
March 09, 2008
(CNN) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert approves plans to expand settlements in the West Bank (0)
 
March 07, 2008
(Independent) Looking at Iran's imposition of the death penalty for homosexuality (0)
(Independent) Photojournalist talks about falling in love with an assassin for right-wing death squads in Colombia's brutal civil war (0)
(Independent) Japan's concrete ceiling (0)
(Active Robots) Robotics and high quality robot kits, controllers and accessories (0)
 
March 06, 2008
(New York Times) Largest Internet Providers in Britain Sell Customers' Browsing Habits (3)
(CNN) Human rights coalition: Gaza at worst since 1967 (1)
 
February 19, 2008
(BBC) California court orders Wikileaks.org be taken offline (0)
 
February 17, 2008
(BBC) Saudi woman charged with witchcraft may face the death penalty (1)
 
February 16, 2008
(YouTube) Malcolm X television interview from 1963 (2)
 
February 14, 2008
(Kiva) Kiva is an organisation that allows you to loan money to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the entrepreneur you've sponsored (0)
(YouTube) Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) discusses waterboarding during a Senate debate (0)
 
February 12, 2008
(CNN) Rand Corp. report (requested by the Pentagon) characterizes "U.S. military intervention and occupation in the Muslim world" as "at best inadequate, at worst counter-productive, and, on the whole, infeasible." (0)
 
February 11, 2008
(YouTube) Journalism student in Afghanistan sentenced to death for researching women's rights (1)
 
February 09, 2008
(YouTube) MSNBC discusses the idea that Democratic super delegates are worth the equivalent of 10,000 regular voters (0)
 
February 08, 2008
(CNN) Violations of 'Islamic teachings' take deadly toll on Iraqi women (0)
(MSNBC) Seizure of laptops, cameras, and cellphones by American customs is raising legal questions (0)
 
February 06, 2008
(Reuters) CIA admits to using coercive interrogation techniques on "fewer than 33" suspects, including 3 men who were waterboarded (0)
 
February 05, 2008
(CNN) Millions march against Colombia rebels (0)
(Reuters) U.S. says no one too young for Guantanamo court (0)
 
February 02, 2008
(YouTube) Hollywood Democratic Debate (0)
 
January 29, 2008
(CNN) New York state chapter of the National Organization for Women slams Ted Kennedy for supporting Barack Obama instead of Hillary Clinton: "He's joined the list of progressive white men who can't or won't handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton" (0)
 
January 27, 2008
(Google Video) Dying University professor gives final lecture: "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" (0)
 
January 26, 2008
(Wired) Mapping the Most Complex Structure in the Universe: Your Brain (0)
 
January 25, 2008
(Wired) Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome; Synthetic Life Comes Next (1)
(Shacknews) Mass media coverage of the video game industry -- in a nutshell (0)
(Amazon) The Politics of Heroin (0)
 
January 24, 2008
(CNN) Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war (0)
 
January 22, 2008
(CNN Money) Fortune's Top 50 Employers (0)
 
January 19, 2008
(YouTube) Noam Chomsky discusses 9/11 conspiracy theories (0)
 
January 18, 2008
(The Guardian) Violent German teen sent to cope in Siberia (0)
(Ars Technica) US intel chief wants carte blanche to peep all 'Net traffic (0)
 
January 17, 2008
(New York Times) Video game industry lobbyists proclaim their intention to bribe officials in Washington (0)
 
January 12, 2008
(Sydney Morning Herald) Israel hiding settlement facts to protect image (0)
 
January 11, 2008
(Google Video) Documentary: No End In Sight (0)
(Google Video) Documentary: Why We Fight (0)
 
January 10, 2008
(faboo mama) New Hampshire Primary: Obama's concession speech (0)
 
January 08, 2008
(RSIA) RSI Awareness (0)
 
January 06, 2008
(YouTube) New Hampshire Democratic Debate (0)
(YouTube) New Hampshire Republican Debate (0)
 
January 05, 2008
(National Journal) Examining the objectivity of the Lancet Study on Iraqi civilian deaths (0)
(CNN) Intel quits One Laptop Per Child (0)
 
January 04, 2008
(CNN Video) Obama's victory speech from Iowa (0)
(ABC News) The [American] National Academy of Sciences has released a book called "Science, Evolution and Creationism" -- a strongly-worded answer to the Creationist movement and the doubts about Darwin that many people express in polls and elsewhere (0)
 
January 03, 2008
(The Populist Party) The Financial Cost of the Bush Administration (0)
(Times-Picayune) New Orleans' murder rate remains among nation's highest (0)
(International Herald Tribune) Japan's new education model: India (0)
(The Independent) 80 children massacred in Kenyan church (0)
(Wired Blogs) Saddam's Arms, Shirts: Made In England (0)
(International Herald Tribune) Clinton vs. Obama: 2 approaches to policy (0)
(The Guardian) Death toll in Arab-Israeli conflict fell in 2007 (0)
(The Independent) 2008: The year a new superpower is born (0)
(The Independent) Record level of violence in Afghanistan (0)
(Washington Post) Dissident Saudi Blogger Is Arrested (1)
(The Guardian) North Korea misses year-end deadline on nuclear weapons (0)
(Politico) Nader throws support to Edwards (0)
(The Independent) Pakistan 'could be another Somalia' (0)
(New York Times) Ron Paul excluded from the upcoming Fox News G.O.P. candidate debate (0)
(The Independent) CIA faces criminal inquiry into loss of 'torture' tapes at Guantanamo (1)
(The Independent) Scotland Yard's history of assisting Pakistan in times of national crisis (1)
(The Independent) Highway 443: Israel's forbidden road (0)
(ABC News) Anyone Out There? (0)
 
January 02, 2008
(AFP) Australia's plans to censor Internet under fire (3)
(B'Tselem) 'The Israeli Information Center For Human Rights In The Occupied Territories' (0)
(The Guardian) Family rivalries threaten to destabilize Pakistan even further (1)
(Think Progress) Bush Issues Signing Statement Undermining Sudan Accountability And Divestment Act (0)
(Yahoo News) Taiwan says China now has 1,328 ballistic missiles aimed at it (0)
(CNN) Oil pushes to $100 (0)
 
January 01, 2008
(Canada.com) 31% of Canadians didn't read a single book last year (0)
(BMJ) The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute [from 2005] (0)
(Talking Points Memo) List of all the Bush Administration officials who've been accused of corruption and/or resigned in the face of scandal (0)
 
December 31, 2007
(CBC) Quebec City begins 400th birthday celebration (0)
(YouTube) Barack Obama on 'Meet The Press' (1)
(Washington Post) Iraq Safer but Still Perilous At Year-End, Petraeus Says (0)
(The Guardian) Pakistan may not make it (0)
(The Independent) France breaks off talks with Syria (0)
(The Guardian) Mexican police disarmed in drug inquiry (0)
(Washington Post) For China's Journalism Students, Censorship Is a Core Concept (0)
(YouTube) Ron Paul on 'Meet The Press' (0)
 
December 30, 2007
(Military Review) 'Learning From Our Modern Wars: The Imperatives of Preparing for a Dangerous Future' (1)
(Talking Points Memo) Contractors in Afghanistan Didn't Have to Prove Purchases Actually Occurred (0)
(Wired) New H-Bomb Obliterated; What's Next for [American] Nuke Labs? (0)
(The Independent) Op-ed: They don't blame al-Qa'ida. They blame Musharraf (2)
(Ron Paul 2008) Ron Paul will be excluded from the upcoming Fox News debate (1)
 
December 29, 2007
(Science Blogs) Video: Ron Paul does not accept the theory of evolution (0)
 
December 28, 2007
(CBC) New Israeli settlements will cloud peace talks: Abbas (0)
(The Independent) The Year in Review: Bloodshed, bombshells – and new beginnings (International Affairs) (0)
(The Independent) The Year in Review: Last stand of a lame duck