Tim Yao - Current events

Current events & politics

[08/29/07] Washington political scandals
[04/21/07] Interesting editorial: Wolfowitz Scandal Takes Bank Hypocrisy to New Heights
[09/05/06] slashdot blog entry about the recent successful attempt to hack a Diebold electronic voting machine in under 4 minutes
[09/08/05] Scathing expose of Barbara Bush's recent comments, two editorials about the terrible disconnect in the White House and questions raised about the courage of reporters.
[07/28/05] This editorial about the dangers of CAFTA warns that this agreement has many dangerous precedents that favor the rights of corporations over the rights of citizens. Unfortunately, CAFTA was passed without real debate or the opportunity to explore alternatives.
[04/26/05] Ack! This slashdot.org article and this arstechnica.com article (and follow-up discussion) highlight a distressing move by the current administration to bar US citizens from a technical international standards body (the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission) on the basis of whether they made a political contribution to John Kerry's campaign (this is unprecedented)!
[01/05/05] The troubling Citizen's Guide to the 2004 Election
[12/18/04] Sobering article about some perils of the Administration's plan for privatization of social security. Probably worth considering if one recalls how the Republican led congress crippled Medicare's ability to negotiate drug costs.
[12/01/04] Fascinating and scary discussion on slashdot about the continuing (and underreported) scandal on electronic voting
[11/29/04] blackboxvoting.org and www.votergate.tv -- absolutely chilling information about electronic voting.
[10/28/04] The Kerry plan for combatting the troubling trend of outsourcing of America's innovation jobs, the very ones that fueled the new economy.
[10/27/04] Interesting article from theNation that argues the case against the Bush Administration. Also see this article on US Government conflicts of interest
Bush Wired Story (Bellaciao) and How John Kerry exposed the Contra-Cocaine Scandal (history)
[10/08/04] discovered www.jobwatch.org, an independent tracking of job growth in the US economy. Compared with other recession recoveries, there is cause for concern.
Why conservatives must not vote for Bush, a salon.com article by a Reaganite (saw the reference in Doonesbury); also an article from the conservative Wall Street Journal about the War in Iraq.
For Those Who Are Still Undecided (taken from www.opinioneditorials.com)
peakoil.com talks about a major risk to the US--its dependence on oil. truthout.org collects news articles from a number of sources about topics that don't seem to catch the national media focus.