Nuclear Terror at Home
If you can imagine some rational observers from Mars looking at this curious species down here, I don’t think they’d put very high odds on survival—another generation or two. In fact, it’s kind of miraculous that we’ve come along this far.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Leave our country now
We lived through dark days under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. When the regime fell, people wanted a new life: a life without shackles and terror; a life where we could rebuild our country and enjoy its natural wealth. Instead, our communities have been attacked with chemicals and cluster bombs, and our people tortured, raped and killed in our homes.

Scott Ritter Says U.S. Plans June Attack on Iran : SF Bay Area Indymedia
United for Peace of Pierce County (WA) February 19, 2005 Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and claimed the U.S. manipulated the results of the recent Jan. 30 elections in Iraq.

Tsunami: A Discourse On Compassion
Compassion has become morally and politically appropriate, as it should be. What is inexcusable is when those images of suffering are a direct consequence of policies waged by our governments and corporations for which we are culpable, we seem to exhibit compassion-deficient syndrome. A global compassion not only for human life, but for human dignity can never be attained when brown bodies swelter and slave in plantations, trying to live on two dollars a day, as thousands of farmers continue to commit suicide as their livelihoods are stolen, and women and children walk across the parched earth to confront batons and armed police guarding the gates of free market heaven.

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | I know what I'd do
Choice? What choice? The residents of Clapham Park Estate might be asking themselves that as they head off to the polls within a couple of weeks. People who live in what was judged Lambeth's worst housing estate will be voting on whether to transfer their homes from Lambeth council to a new community-led housing association. Since 1997, 142 estates have voted yes in housing-transfer votes, while only 25 have voted no. A wise decision, since this is a gun-to-the-head choice.

ZNet Commentary: Australia: The Sickening Of Democracy
National myths are usually partly true. In Australia, the myth of an egalitarian society, or "fair go", has an extraordinary history. Long before most of the world, Australia had a minimum wage, a 35-hour working week, child benefits and the vote for women. The secret ballot was invented in Australia. By the 1960s, Australians could boast the most equitable spread of personal income in the world. Today, these are forgotten...

Delete the evidence
Funny how the government would want to keep millions of files to cope with ID cards, yet it costs to much money to keep e-documents that might be important. Reminds me of another country that makes up laws to oppress rather than protect people