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Officers routinely lied to obtain search warrants
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excop1.jpgBy STEVE VISSER | A former Atlanta police officer testified Thursday that narcotics officers routinely lied under oath when seeking search warrants a practice ...
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Will the Mortgage Industry Pay for Its Crimes?
Friday, May 9th, 2008
mortgage.jpgBy Danny Schechter | There is a time in the life of every writer when you find yourself fearing that you have become a robo call phone machine -- repeating the ...


Roots of surveillance standoff go back decades
Friday, May 9th, 2008
camera.jpgBy Shane Harris | In the old days, everyone was linked to a lug nut, and Jim Kallstrom liked it that way. It was 1985, a simpler time for a cop like Kallstrom, who was in charge ...


UN suspends aid flights after Burma impounds food
Friday, May 9th, 2008
burma-aid.jpgBy Rachel Stevenson, Julian Borger, Ian MacKinnon and agencies | The UN today suspended aid flights to Burma after emergency supplies for survivors of cyclone ...



Peak Food: Blaming the Victims
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
food-crisis.jpgBy Nafeez Ahmed | I've already written about this in previous posts under the 'hidden holocaust' theme, but am prompted to re-address this issue given the way it's been dealt with by mainstream media and ...



Ex-MI5 chief warns over detention
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
dame-stella.jpgBBC News | MPs should work together to agree a detention limit for terror suspects and ensure the matter is not a political football, a former MI5 chief has said. Ministers want to be ...



Britain throws away £10bn of food every year
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
food.jpgBy Martin Hickman | Global food shortages, soaring prices and alarm over the environment. But every day, Britain throws away 220,000 loaves of bread, 1.6m bananas, 550,000 chickens, 5.1m potatoes, 660,000 eggs, 1.2m sausages and ...



The New Whopper: Burger with a Side of Spies
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
burgerking.jpgPR Watch | Author Eric Schlosser editorializes about "the growing threat to civil liberties posed by corporate spying," citing Burger King Corporation's spying on the Student/Farmworker Alliance and the ...

Judge May Make CIA Torture Memo Public
Friday, May 9th, 2008
torturevic1.jpgAP | The CIA must let a judge view a 2002 memo purportedly including waterboarding among interrogation methods to be used on prisoners in U.S. custody so he can decide whether it should be made public, the judge ...


U.S. deploys more than 43,000 unfit for combat
Friday, May 9th, 2008
us-deploys.jpgBy Gregg Zoroya | More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show. This ...


BBC kept £106,000 of charity cash
Friday, May 9th, 2008
bbc.jpgBy Leigh Holmwood | The BBC today apologised for keeping £106,000 made from premium-rate phone calls on about two dozen shows that should have been given to charity. In the latest scandal ...



The Challenge Of Modern Slavery
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
modern-slavery.jpgBy Loretta Napoleoni | Slavery is in our refrigerators. From fruit to beef, from sugar to coffee, slave labor brings food to our tables. “Miguel,” a Mexican slave freed by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a US ...



Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
aclu.jpgBy William Fisher | As human rights groups demanded the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the unlawful interrogations of detainees in ...



Does Organic Really Mean Organic?
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
organic.jpgBy David Gutierrez | The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has renewed its approval for 46 non-organically produced substances to be used in foods and beverages that are labeled "organic." At the same time, the ...



US/IRAQ: Pressure to Cut Costs, Troops Strains “Surge”
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
surge.jpgBy Jim Lobe | Growing impatience in Congress over the enormous costs being racked up by the Iraq war, as well as the Pentagon's belief that it needs more troops in Afghanistan to fight ...

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The Surveillance Society Does Not Work

ss.jpg By Mick Meaney – RINF | Costing in excess of billions of pounds each year, every single area of the British surveillance society has been proven ill effective when dealing with crime, fraud and terrorism – the very reasons ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008

torture3.jpgBy Marjorie Cohn | What does torture have in common with genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They are all jus cogens. Jus cogens is Latin for "higher law" or "compelling law." This means that ...

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Thursday, May 8th, 2008

suicide.jpgBy Ewen MacAskill | The Pentagon confirmed yesterday that a Kuwaiti released from the US detention camp at Guantánamo Bay three years ago carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq last month. The involvement of an ex-Guantánamo detainee ...

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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

bolton.jpgBy Damien McElroy | Mr Bolton said that striking Iran would represent a major step towards victory in Iraq. While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile Iranian response harming American’s overseas interests existed, he said the damage inflicted ...

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Pentagon’s Propaganda Documents Go Online
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008


Roads blocked in Beirut anti-gov’t protests
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008


The Pentagon vs. America
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008


Data fear haunts ID card scheme
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008


Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008


Gov set to defy its own experts and upgrade cannabis
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008


Nuns are turned away from Indiana polls
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008


FBI agents raid office protecting whistleblowers
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008


‘Torture memo’ author, former attorney general, to testify
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008


The Surveillance Society Does Not Work
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008


Government can’t be trusted with our personal information
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008


ID-cards are ‘theft’ of our civil liberties
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008


Iraqi alleges Abu Ghraib torture, sues US contractors
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008


Iran rejects nuclear inspections unless Israel allows them
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008


US Navy Deploys Around Latin America
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008


Report: U.S. Not as ‘Free’ as Touted
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008


CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008


Brian Haw Arrested Again - SOCPA
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008


Iraq ‘Divide and Rule’ Strategy Called Shortsighted
Monday, May 5th, 2008


UN official decries weakening of press freedom
Monday, May 5th, 2008


DNA database solves 1 in 800 crimes
Monday, May 5th, 2008


3.5 Million Tons of Plastic Floating in the Pacific
Monday, May 5th, 2008


Al Jazeera Cameraman Freed From Guantánamo
Monday, May 5th, 2008


Obama and Wright: Different Worldviews
Monday, May 5th, 2008


America’s Chemically Modified 21st Century Soldiers
Monday, May 5th, 2008


We’ve been given a yellow card - Labour
Monday, May 5th, 2008


Renditions Ruin the EU Case
Monday, May 5th, 2008


Hundreds killed by Burma cyclone
Monday, May 5th, 2008


Bush backs modified crops
Monday, May 5th, 2008


English village to be invaded in spybot competition
Monday, May 5th, 2008


Worldwide Support for Free Media
Friday, May 2nd, 2008


Banksy throws London stencil party
Friday, May 2nd, 2008


Nepal police detain 100 Tibetan protestors
Friday, May 2nd, 2008


Ex-Guantanamo man: “Torture is terrorism”
Friday, May 2nd, 2008


Why Gordon Brown should halt ID cards
Friday, May 2nd, 2008


Sex offender DNA files expanded
Friday, May 2nd, 2008


Secret Bush “Finding” Widens War on Iran
Friday, May 2nd, 2008


Denying Palestinians Free Movement in the West Bank
Friday, May 2nd, 2008


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