links for 2006-12-30

• Ancient ice shelf breaks free from Canadian Arctic – CNN.com
  TORONTO, Ontario (AP) — A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada’s Arctic, scientists said. The mass of ice broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 800 kilometers (497 miles) south of t
  (tags: water 2006 environment Arctic climate free Science warming globalwarming global Weather Canada geography irc ice rich nature)
• BBC NEWS | Middle East | Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq
  Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location in Baghdad for crimes against humanity. Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT).
  (tags: execution Saddam world news source BBC)
• The 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006. – By Dahlia Lithwick – Slate Magazine
  I love those year-end roundups—ubiquitous annual lists of greatest films and albums and lip glosses and tractors. It’s reassuring that all human information can be wrestled into bundles of 10. In that spirit, Slate proudly presents, the top 10 civil lib
  (tags: politics civilliberties news 2006 privacy Bush interesting links rights surveillance)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls: Top Ten Ways the US Enabled Saddam Hussein | Informed Comment
  The tendency to treat Saddam and Iraq in a historical vacuum, and in isolation from the superpowers, however, has hidden from Americans their own culpability in the horror show that has been Iraq for the past few decades. Initially, the US used the Baath
  (tags: politics Iraq imperialism Saddam history)

~ by SAP on 30 December 2006.