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Stories from 2004-03-18

Bush Campaign Gear Made in Burma

Lauren Weber | Newsday | March 18, 2004

"The merchandise sold on www.georgewbushstore.com includes a $49.95 fleece pullover, embroidered with the Bush-Cheney '04 logo and bearing a label stating it was made in Burma, now Myanmar." [more]

Fourteen Dead as Ethnic Violence Sweeps Kosovo

Ian Traynor | Guardian | March 18, 2004

"The eruption of violence was fuelled by tit-for-tat incidents in recent days and showed how tense Kosovo remains, despite almost five years of UN peacekeeping. With Albanian hardliners in the ascendant in Kosovo and a new nationalist government in power in Serbia, the portents are dismal." [more]

Misplaced Paranoia

Bob Barr | Creative Loafing Atlanta | March 18, 2004

"Perhaps the most ominous signal that we've allowed government snooping to go too far recently came to light: Now the military is getting into the surveillance and gathering of information on law-abiding citizens -- in a big way. Despite a 126-year-old federal law that seems to prohibit military involvement in such matters as gathering evidence on citizens and others within our borders, the Pentagon is involved in a wide variety of domestic snooping operations." [more]

The Postmodern Police State and the Battle for Public Space

Evan Greer | Phoenix | March 18, 2004

Activist and singer/songwriter Evan Greer explains how public spaces are being coopted for private interests and calls for a re-claimation of public space and social interactions. [more]

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