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Poll: Most want inquiry into anti-terror tactics
By Jill Lawrence WASHINGTON — Even as Americans struggle with two wars and an economy in tatters, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds majorities in favor of investigating some of the thorniest unfinished business from
Read More »Fisk: Afghanistan in Crisis
By Robert Fisk | The collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar is in Taliban hands—all but a square mile at the centre of the city—and the first Taliban checkpoints are scarcely
Read More »Manufactured Famine
By George Monbiot | In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines that sucked the guts out of India in the 1870s. The hunger began when a drought,
Read More »Guantánamo Has Backfired Dreadfully
By George Monbiot | When we learned last week that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi had blown himself up in Mosul in northern Iraq, the US government presented this as a vindication of its policies. Al-Ajmi
Read More »Bush Administration Policies Making Work Less Safe
By Leo W. Gerard | In the heart of Pennsylvania, while the media still relentlessly plagued Senators Obama and Clinton about flag pins and memory lapses just before the primary, a machine at an
Read More »THE DEBATE: UK Passports – Interview or Interrogation?
RINF | Can the Home Office justify raising passport costs to over £70 while spending nearly £100 million on interview centres that have zero effect in combating identity fraud or terrorism? Convicted terrorists have obtained and used fraudulent passports such
Read More »The most potent weapon wielded by Murdoch and China
By George Monbiot | If you want to know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, read the reviews of Bruce Dover’s book, Rupert’s Adventures in China. Well, go on, read them. You can’t find any? I
Read More »The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn
Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and
Read More »Nutrition Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know About
Rich Stacel | Newstarget Today we know more about vitamins, minerals and nutrition in general then ever before, but at the same time there are various elements of the media and medical community that
Read More »The Politics Of Absolute Power
The following commentary was written by Philip S. Golub and appears in the Le Monde diplomatique English-language edition for October 2007. Mr. Golub is a journalist and lecturer at the University of Paris VIII.
Read More »Who Watches the CIA Watchers?
Katrina vanden Heuvel In the cloak and dagger, smoke and hall of mirrors that is the CIA, we have more evidence that it’s dangerous to be a whistleblower, even if that happens to be
Read More »Why is Rudy Giuliani basing his campaign on 911?
By Geezer Power Mayor Giuliani was warned that the WTC tower was going to collapse. Rudy Giuliani is interviewed by ABC News 12:01 pm 9/11/01 where he mentioned that he was told that the
Read More »A scary assault on civil liberties
By Lance Dickie As historians tally the incompetence, profligacy and lawless opacity of the Bush administration, a shorthand is already emerging: Katrina, Iraq, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, signing statements and epic debt. Each reference speaks
Read More »Robert Fisk: No wonder the bloggers are winning
These gutless papers explain why more people are Googling than turning pages I despise the internet. It’s irresponsible and, often, a net of hate. And I don’t have time for Blogopops. But here’s a
Read More »New World Order Evolving
By Ivan Simic RINF Alternative News The term “*New World Order*” (*Novus Ordo Mundi*) has been used to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and
Read More »RINF Report: Leeds Truth Festival 2007
Michael Meaney Last weekend (11-13 May 2007), a series of very unusual talks and events took place in the Northern town of Leeds. Described as the ‘Leeds Truth Festival’, an entire weekend of activities saw campaigners, activists and
Read More »Look who’s talking: Britain’s ‘Big Brother’
Britain is turning to talking cameras to curb anti-social behavior. But more police and better street lighting may do more to stop crime. Ronan Thomas London – In “1984,” British writer George Orwell envisaged
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