• Rome Food Conference

  

  Jun 8, 2008 2:42

  IPA | As government leaders from around the world meet at the U.N. food conference in Rome, nonprofit organizations have...

   

• Committee calls for database prudence

  

  Jun 8, 2008 2:33

  Kable’s Government Computing | The government should vow to collect only essential data on people and hold it only...

   

• Profiting from Iraq’s occupation

  By Harry Cohen | The British in Basra are unpopular and mostly ineffective. The last survey of Basra residents by BBC Newsnight...

   

• Senate report on Bush war lies: Another cover-up of war crimes

  By Barry Grey | The Senate Intelligence Committee report issued Thursday on the Bush administration’s use of phony intelligence...

   

• Iraq: New US plan for total control

  

  Jun 7, 2008 2:45

  Socialist Worker | Revealed: George Bush’s plan to impose ‘security accords’ that will mean 400 permanent military...

   

• Chavez Revamps His Intelligence Services: The Corporate Media React

  By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Reports keep surfacing about new threats against Hugo Chavez. Given past ones, they can’t...

   

• US Walks Away from UN Human Rights Council

  

  Jun 7, 2008 1:39

  Human Rights Watch | A decision by the United States to disengage from the UN Human Rights Council amounts to an abandonment...

   

• Hunger strike as protest to Guantánamo charges

  

  Jun 7, 2008 0:43

  By Andy Worthington | This has been a disturbing week for British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, who endured...

   

• 10 reasons why organic can feed the world

  By Ed Hamer & Mark Anslow | 1. Yield Switching to organic farming would have different effects according to where in...

   

• The First Signs of “Peak Gas”?

  By Andy Rowell | Consumers the world over are beginning to protest at the huge gasoline prices they are paying at the pump....

   

• Spying Telecoms Receive Billions in Government Contracts

  By Kurt Opsahl | The telecoms who are being sued for their cooperation in the government’s illegal warrantless surveillance...

   

• The desperation of Hillary Clinton’s campaign

  By Clarence Lusane | Sen. Hillary Clinton has disgracefully pursued a disturbing strategy of racial opportunism. Since early...

   

• Blair/Brown ‘pretend society’ exposed

  Via UK Watch | It all seems rather silly now, but it was not so long ago that many on the liberal left fully expected the...

   

• Urgent Appeal from Iraqi Oil Workers

  From US Labor Against the War | We have just received an urgent message from Hassan Juma’a Awad, President of the Iraq...

   

• Noam Chomsky on Marijuana

  By John Veit - HIGH TIMES MAGAZINE | A hundred years from now, Avram Noam Chomsky is going to figure in the history books...

   

• On Trial for Protesting a Weapons Maker

  By Socialist Worker | Eamonn McCann is a founder of the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, a veteran socialist...

   

• White House fed war propaganda to a “complicit” media

  By Bill Van Auken | In a stunning blow to what very little remains of the Bush administration’s political credibility,...

   

• How McCain Has Supported Bush

  By Jason Rosenbaum | CQ’s Presidential Support studies try to determine how often a legislator votes in line with the...

   

• UN chief “shocked” over Zimbabwe’s murdered activists

  Geneva – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said she was shocked Wednesday by the news that several...

   

• The Genealogy of Torture and Democracy

  By Shannon Jones | The horrifying scenes of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the mistreatment of detainees...

   

• Brown: To Be More Than an Accessory to War Crimes

  By Tariq Ali | Power can shape “truth”, but not for ever. That is one lesson that could be learned from the series of...

   

• A Real Inside Job; Anthrax

  After Downing Street | Someone just pointed this out to me. FBI claims to be continuing anthrax investigation. They’ve...

   

• Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing?

  By Daniel Taylor | “…just by walking down the street you could be subject to a personal biometric system, you...

   

• Appeal from Tony Benn / Stop the War Coalition

  By Tony Benn | The destruction of Iraq continues; its people killed amidst bombings and atrocities, a million or more dead,...

   

• American Psychological Association Supports Torture

  By Stephen Soldz | Since 2005, the American Psychological Association (APA) has steadfastly asserted that psychologists participating...