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  • Internet Censorship Increases in Pakistan

    Internet Censorship Increases in Pakistan

    May 28, 2010 14:46

    There has been increasing evidence of the active role that many governments and states across the world are taking in internet...

     
  • JJ Abrams Planned Lost Ending From The Start?

    JJ Abrams Planned Lost Ending From The Start?

    May 25, 2010 23:33

    According to a press release, apparently from Bad Robot, the production company behind the hit series, Lost, show creator...

     
  • Anonymous Surfing – No Chance in the UK

    Anonymous Surfing – No Chance in the UK

    May 14, 2010 11:26

    If anyone had any vague ideas that what they do online is private then the recently released figures from Google should dispel...

     
  • Students hail retreat by elite universities

    By Lizzie Cocker Students have celebrated a stunning victory after the Russell Group of elite universities bowed to demands...

     
  • ‘Minority Report’ Technology On The Way

    ‘Minority Report’ Technology On The Way

    May 3, 2010 7:50

    Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie, has stated that ‘Minority Report’ technology...

     
  • Oil Spill Could Cost USA More Than $14 billion

    Oil Spill Could Cost USA More Than $14 billion

    May 2, 2010 23:16

    The oil spill heading toward Louisiana from the Deepwater Horizon rig could exceed $14 billion, according to analysts. In...

     
  • Government caves in to pressure from Bush

    Government caves in to pressure from Bush

    Jun 16, 2008 19:36

    The real purpose of George Bush’s visit to London became clear this afternoon, as Des Browne was set to announce more...

     
  • Commons report: British “surveillance society”

    QAS | The Commons’ home affairs committee has submitted a report warning of the danger of Britain becoming a surveillance...

     
  • Our Government’s Dirty Little Secrets

    By George Galloway | A Government ready to rely on those friends of liberty, the Democratic Unionist party, to shred the...

     
  • Change, What Change?

    Change, What Change?

    Jun 14, 2008 14:35

    CounterPunch | On Tuesday June 3 Barack Obama claimed the greatest prize the Democratic Party can offer, namely his nomination...

     
  • It’s Conyers’s Time to Act on Impeachment

    Dennis Kucinich is saying exactly what you were saying before you became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Now you...

     
  • Democracy in the EU Institutions

    Blair Watch | There is much debate over the Irish rejection of the Lisbon treaty, but what I’m finding interesting...

     
  • A New Kind Of Corporate Slavery

    Corporations are getting rich using federal prisoners as captive labor pools. By Betty Brink | Unless she’s dying or recovering...

     
  • A Cynic’s Guide To 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

    The Wolverhampton Radiophonic Institute has just broadcast a  seventeen minute documentary which examines the British...

     
  • Exposing Bush Administration Corruption

    Exposing Bush Administration Corruption

    Jun 11, 2008 12:43

    By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Information for this article comes from long-time business, finance and political writer...

     
  • Are We Pro-Slavery?

    By Walter Williams | Let’s do a thought experiment asking whether Americans are for or against slavery. You might...

     
  • Biometric scans raise spectre of Big Brother workplaces

    Management-Issues | As the FBI embarks on a $1bn programme to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’...

     
  • Can the US empire strike back?

    By Alex Callinicos | Despite opposing the war, Obama is committed to US imperialism. Imagine, in a galaxy far, far away,...

     
  • Washington ordered destruction of Guantánamo interrogation records

    Washington ordered destruction of Guantánamo interrogation records

    Jun 10, 2008 12:29

    By Bill Van Auken | In another confirmation of the criminal character of Washington’s handling of so-called “enemy combatants,”...

     
  • Big Brother Britain

    Employers could find themselves in hot water if they decide to follow a new government plan to record and store all of Britain’s...

     
  • Presidential Directive Demands Widespread Sharing of Biometrics

    By Matthew Rothschild | Big Brother wants your irises. George Bush just issued a directive to expand the acquisition of biometric...

     
  • Airport Scanners Do Virtual Strip Search

    By Thomas Frank | Body-scanning machines that show images of people underneath their clothing are being installed in 10 of...

     
  • Potential Future Hyperinflation

    By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Walter “John” Williams thinks out of the box. He makes disquieting reading,...

     
  • Cheney Enrages Iraqis Over Security Deal

    By GARY LEUPP | Dick Cheney wants the Iraqi government installed by the U.S. occupation to sign a “security pact” with...

     
  • Have Government officials broken EU rules?

    Have Government officials broken EU rules?

    Jun 8, 2008 2:47

    IC Wales | QUESTIONS have been raised over whether European rules are being broken in the running of a new £92m business...