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Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges
When Obama first unveiled his “preventive detention” policy, many defenders praised him (and claimed he was different...
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Agents say DEA is forcing them illegally to work in Afghanistan
As the Obama administration ramps up the Drug Enforcement Administration’s presence in Afghanistan, some special-agent...
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Iran Police Crack Down As Thousands Protest
His backers were demonstrating over the re-election of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won by a landslide despite...
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Iranians Use Internet, Phones to Share Protest News
With independent media coverage of Iranian protests restricted by authorities, witnesses are reaching out online and by telephone...
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Why Obama’s CIO Wants to Put All Gov’t Info Online
The Obama administration’s most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet...
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All in a day’s work for the Israeli army: beating and torturing children
Jonathan Cook reports on how Israeli soldiers routinely, and as a matter of policy, practise torture against Palestinian...
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Al Qaeda leader arrested over Sunni MP’s killing
Iraqi police arrested a top Al-Qaeda operative on Wednesday over the killing of a senior Sunni Muslim MP and human rights...
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Craig Murry on Iran
For me, any sensible discussion of Iran must accept a number of facts. I will set these out as Set A and Set B. Both sets...
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EU “disturbed” by Iraq executions, calls for freeze
The European Union protested against reported executions in Iraq on Monday and called on Baghdad to resume a moratorium on...
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Iran Restricts Foreign Media
Cell Phone Network Shut Down, Websites Blocked in Effort to Control Information Coming Out of Tehran As Friday’s election...
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MEP Nick Griffin – An audience with a racist
Nick Griffin: MEP elect, BNP mouthpiece, convicted Holocaust-denier and would-be deporter of black people invites me into...
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Racist rants of elected BNP man, Andrew Brons, revealed
One of the British National party’s first MEPs’ attempts to play down his past links to the extreme right as...
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Iran polls prompt vote rigging allegations
Iran went to the polls today in presidential elections, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seeking a second four-year term. Four...
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Iran election may decide war or peace for Middle East
More than 42 million Iranians are eligible to vote Friday in the presidential election, and long lines were reported around...
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Spying Teachers – MI5 Wants Recruits
Now pay attention school teachers: your country needs you. The British Security Service MI5 is seeking to recruit teachers...
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The Ugly Side of Globalization: Slavery
The offer came to families on the edge of desperation, living and working around the clock on garbage dumps whose sickening...
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US cybersecurity plan poses new war threats
By Tom Eley | President Barack Obama announced on Friday the creation of a new “cyber czar” position. The Cybersecurity...
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High court rejects claims against Ashcroft
By Joan Biskupic | WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Monday threw out a Pakistani man’s civil rights...
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On British “success” in Iraq
By David Morrison | “Tony Blair, I’m afraid, would never accept that our foreign policy actually had any impact...
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The Politics of Excusing Torture In The Name of National Security
Allow me to share some analysis about the way things work in Washington. President Obama’s flip-flop on his agreement...
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British Government claims it wants to extend Freedom of Information Act
By Warwick Ashford | The UK’s Freedom of Information Act is to be extended beyond public sector bodies, it emerged...
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How U.S. Officials Circumvented the Bill of Rights
By Jacob G. Hornberger | In another embrace of President Bush’s war-on-terrorism policies, President Obama has announced...
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Senate Hears Testimony On Torture Policy
A key Senate subcommittee is set to hear testimony today on the torture policies of the Bush administration. The hearing,...
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How Americans Came to Support Torture, in Five Steps
By Roy Eidelson | In recent weeks, new revelations about the harsh interrogation and torture of detainees during the Bush...
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British Labour’s divisive Equality Bill
The government’s Equality Bill has been condemned as “socialism in one clause” by Britain’s right wing and a “landmark”...




