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Italy Tries US Soldier For Iraq Murder
A US soldier is being tried in absentia by an Italian court for the murder of Nicola Calipari, the intelligence agent who died on the road to Baghdad Airport shortly after securing the release
Read More »Report: France warned CIA of 9-11 plot
France’s foreign intelligence service learned as early as January 2001 that al-Qaida was preparing a hijacking plot likely to involve a U.S. airplane, former intelligence officials said Monday, confirming a report that also said
Read More »Photos of ‘tortured’ Iraqi’s corpse released
Photographs showing the severe beating suffered by an Iraqi civilian who died in British custody were released today as the House of Lords begins a hearing into whether human rights law should apply to
Read More »US university shooting kills 33
BBC A US shooting rampage at the Virginia Tech university A US shooting rampage at the Virginia Tech university has left 33 people, including a suspected gunman, dead. There were two incidents two
Read More »Robotic PsyOps
Peter La Franchi Aerovironment has confirmed that the US Special Operations Command-sponsored Global Observer joint capability technology demonstration (JCTD) programme using the company’s Global Observer hydrogen-powered UAV will include assessment of psychological operations roles for
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
Read More »Britain must stop acting like an emperor
George Monbiot The disease that afflicts all British governments is an inability to let go. Unable to accept the end of empire, they cling to past glories. However much they speak of modernity and
Read More »Bush administration pushes for expansion and deepening of police state
Larry Chin The George W. Bush administration seized the White House in 2000 by way of an openly stolen election, then cemented its criminal power into place with the unprecedented 9/11 mass murder, and
Read More »Ecuador Votes For Revolutionary Change
Stephen Lendman Ecuadorean President Raphael Correa took office January 15 promising his people progressive, revolutionary social and economic change unlike anything this country of mostly impoverished people ever had before under its right wing
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