Debunking the Google Earth Censorship Myth

I found this interesting enough to share with NP. Nothing more to add yet.""There's a persistent Web meme to the effect that Google obscures sensitive or top-secret locations in Google Maps and Google Earth at the insistence of national governments. A July IT Security article...

Violence Erupts in Kenya After MP Murdered, Power Outages Across Countinent

Adding to tensions already stretched to the breaking point and beyond, a second Opposition member of Parliament was killed today by a police officer. Despite police insistence that the murder was not...

Hanging crackdown in Iran

"Surge in public executions is a push to silence political activists, say critics Robert Tait in Tehran Sunday August 19, 2007 The Observer Nikoubazl/Reuters Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month...

DEBKAfile: Israel taken aback by Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad’s insistence t...

Mid-East news agency DEBKAfile reports that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has stated for the record that Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation is a right of the the Indigenous population in...

U.S. Will Allow Most Types of Lighters on Planes

Do you think lighters are less dangerous than sippy cups? "Federal aviation authorities have decided to stop enforcing a two-year-old rule against taking cigarette lighters on airplanes, concluding that it was a...

What Are The Iranians Thinking?

"Since the Iranian nuclear standoff began in earnest, the diplomatic and media exchanges between the United States and the Islamic Republic have been tinged with the unsettling suspicion that war is all but...

Fool Us Twice? From Iraq to Iran

"It's déja vu. This time the Bush gang wants war with Iran. Following a carefully orchestrated strategy, they have ratcheted up the "threat" from Iran, designed to mislead us into a new war four years after they misled us into Iraq. Like its insistence that Iraq had WMD, the...

Criticism Mounts of U.S. Generals in Iraq

"Top warmakers like Gen. John Abizaid have thus far escaped blame for the failures in Iraq. But that's starting to change. The Bush administration's recent shift in strategy on the Iraq War — ending talk...

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