finally

House Rejects Eavesdropping Immunity - New York Times

the Human Rights Campaign 'Buying For Equality' Guide

good to know who donates to whom

all dirt dished

Lawmakers blast Yahoo executives for helping China jail dissident

Quote"Yahoo officials might have underestimated how harshly they would be rebuked by the committee, which is stacked with human rights activists and led by Lantos, a Holocaust survivor who fled Nazi persecution in Hungary, and ranking Republican, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, whose family fled Cuba and who is an ardent foe of Cuban leader Fidel Castro."

Blasphemy: Art That Offends

Quoted: Black Dog Publishing specializes in beautifully produced illustrated books that represent a fresh, eclectic take on contemporary culture.

Artists
Andres Serrano, Theo van Gogh, Komar and Melamid, John Latham, Oreet Ashery, Maurizio Cattalan, Sarah Lucas, Caravaggio, Francis Bacon, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marc Chagall

Human Rights: Mephisto Waltz

Kennedy School at Harvard
Op Ed piece about Blackwater in Darfur

Prense talked about this on Charlie Rose 10/07.
I find him over eager -like Harold howling for the taste of blood in his mouth-Anybody else think Harold and Maude when they see him talk about Darfur?

Quoted: Blackwater, a private security firm, wants to provide peacekeeping services in Darfur. Private contractors have been hired to provide security in Iraq and other places, with mixed results. But Blackwater says it could work under multinational supervision and help reduce civilian suffering.

Pentagon Papers
Watergate scandal
Recipient of 2006 Right Livelihood Award

Malthus, eugenics
Quote:MALTHUSIAN THINKING PROVIDES NO SECURITY

In a briefing paper, the UK-based CornerHouse Research and Solidarity Group notes that Malthusian thinking is providing an enduring argument for the prevention of social and economic change and to obscure, in both academic and popular thinking, the real roots of poverty, inequality and environmental degradation.

by Chakravarthi Raghavan