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Rome Food Conference
IPA | As government leaders from around the world meet at the U.N. food conference in Rome, nonprofit organizations have...
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Committee calls for database prudence
Kable’s Government Computing | The government should vow to collect only essential data on people and hold it only...
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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...
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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...
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Iraq: New US plan for total control
Socialist Worker | Revealed: George Bush’s plan to impose ‘security accords’ that will mean 400 permanent military...
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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...
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US Walks Away from UN Human Rights Council
Human Rights Watch | A decision by the United States to disengage from the UN Human Rights Council amounts to an abandonment...
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Hunger strike as protest to Guantánamo charges
By Andy Worthington | This has been a disturbing week for British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, who endured...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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The desperation of Hillary Clinton’s campaign
By Clarence Lusane | Sen. Hillary Clinton has disgracefully pursued a disturbing strategy of racial opportunism. Since early...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A Real Inside Job; Anthrax
After Downing Street | Someone just pointed this out to me. FBI claims to be continuing anthrax investigation. They’ve...
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Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing?
By Daniel Taylor | “…just by walking down the street you could be subject to a personal biometric system, you...
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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,...
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American Psychological Association Supports Torture
By Stephen Soldz | Since 2005, the American Psychological Association (APA) has steadfastly asserted that psychologists participating...




