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Iraq For Sale
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed and Uncovered)
Read More »Did the U.S. Lie About Using Cluster Bombs in Iraq?
Nick Turse At a time when many nations are moving toward banning the use of cluster munitions, which pose a more serious threat to civilians than any other type of weaponry, the U.S. opposes
Read More »US ‘fundamentally opposed’ to G8 emissions proposals
The US appears to have rejected draft proposals by Germany for G8 members to agree tough measures on greenhouse gas emissions, leaked documents have shown. Wide-ranging US amendments to a draft communiqué prepared ahead
Read More »CCTV cameras ‘focus on the wrong people’
Jane Bruccoleri An Upper Norwood councillor claims CCTV cameras in his ward are more likely to catch people parking illegally than the robbers and muggers blighting the area. A recent spate of crime in
Read More »CIA issued dire warnings before Iraq invasion
KATHERINE SHRADER U.S. intelligence analysts predicted, in two papers widely circulated before the 2003 Iraq invasion, that al-Qaida would see that as an opportunity to increase its operations and that Iran would try to
Read More »U.N. rights expert investigating U.S. criticizes counterterror laws
The Associated Press A U.N. expert on Friday criticized U.S. counterterrorism laws, expressed concern over the use of military commissions to try civilians, and said there was evidence the CIA had violated international human
Read More »Bush signs $100 billion Iraq war funding bill
Matt Spetalnick U.S. President George W. Bush signed a bill on Friday providing $100 billion to pay for the Iraq war but congressional Democrats who failed to impose a troop withdrawal deadline said their
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