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More Republicans Ditch Bush On Iraq War
RTT News Two more Republican senators, who had supported President Bush’s Iraq war, have announced that they could no longer support the war and have called on him to plan for the withdrawal of
Read More »Airport fingerprint program expanding
CONSTANT BRAND Associated Press A program being launched at 10 U.S. airports this year will expand existing identification checks for visitors, including requiring 10 digital fingerprints, but still operate under strict privacy rules, a
Read More »Storing medical info under your skin
Doctors could soon be storing essential medical information under the skin of their patients, the American Medical Association says. Devices the size of a grain of rice that are implanted with a needle could
Read More »Trove of F.B.I. Files on Lawyers Guild Shows Scope of Secret Surveillance
COLIN MOYNIHAN One entry, dated April 14, 1954, was about I. F. Stone, who was described as being a writer from New York. Mr. Stone, it was noted, condemned Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s “persecution
Read More »Former official gets 10 months in Abramoff case
By Andy Sullivan A high-ranking Bush administration official was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Tuesday for lying to Congress as it investigated a bribery scandal centered on lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Steven Griles,
Read More »Reviewing Linda McQuaig’s “Holding the Bully’s Coat”
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Linda McQuaig is a prominent, award-winning Canadian journalist, sadly less well known in the US because she writes about her own country. She was a national reporter for
Read More »Tony Blair’s final press appearance – and Arnie came too
By Tomos Livingstone IC Wales TONY Blair spent his last day in power with Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Political Editor Tomos Livingstone went to say hasta la vista, Tony. Blair and Arnie’s get-together on
Read More »Big Brother Insanity: Cameras Watching Cameras
By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News The surveillance society is not just content to watch all of us, everywhere we go, but is now considering the monitoring of its own cameras, as members of the general
Read More »NATO probes Afghan detainee ‘abuse’
AFP The NATO-led force in Afghanistan on Monday said it was investigating a report that US and Afghan soldiers tied a detainee to a military vehicle and threatened to drag him across a road.
Read More »Iran says US source of Iraq crisis
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, has told Jalal Talabani, the visiting Iraqi president, that the United States is the main source of insecurity in Iraq. “The main elements of insecurity in Iraq
Read More »CIA conspired with mafia to kill Castro
· Agency publishes secret documents detailing plot · 702 pages reveal illegal activities up to 1973 Simon Tisdall in Washington Wednesday June 27, 2007 The Guardian The CIA conspired with a Chicago gangster described
Read More »US Justice Department to probe BAE Saudi deals
David Robertson and Tom Baldwin The Times The British and United States governments are on a diplomatic collision course after the US Department of Justice (DoJ) decided to initiate a formal investigation into allegations
Read More »US armed forces used torture ‘systematically’
UPI The US armed forces have been using torture indiscriminately, a human rights group charged Monday. “Moreover, more than 100,000 pages of government documents released in response to [an] American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]
Read More »Poland sees expansion in Russian spying network
Poland has accused Russia of building up a covert network of agents, the country’s military intelligence chief said Tuesday.Antoni Macierewicz said Poland has not seen as many Russian spies since the Cold War era.
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Read More »Why 9/11 Film Screenings Work
DHARM MAKWANA 24 HOURS The 9-11 truth movement works overtime to prove the obvious, according to Dr. Joe Hawkins. The Winnipeg chiropractor offered that kernel of insight yesterday during his seminar on Canadian activism
Read More »8 – 10 CCTV Cameras per Irish Bus
By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News Bus Eireann are planning to install 8 to 10 CCTV cameras per bus in a nationwide plan to “reduce vandalism”. The digital CCTV cameras will cost Irish taxpayers
Read More »Overgrown Kids, Unshackled Ids, and the Death of the Superego
By Jason Miller RINF Alternative News Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. –Sigmund Freud Frightening as it may be, the Earth’s fate rests in the
Read More »Supreme Court Limits Students’ Speech Rights
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A high school student’s ”Bong Hits 4 Jesus” banner got slapped down by the Supreme Court in a decision Monday that restricts student speech rights when the message seems to advocate
Read More »9/11 and the British Broadcasting Conspiracy
WATCH IT HERE FOR FREE By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News A new British documentary has been released focusing on the BBC’s selective and distorted coverage of the events of 9/11. ‘911 and the British
Read More »The True Cost of ID Cards
By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News The true cost of ID cards are not just to the taxpayer’s purse but go much deeper and have a truly disturbing impact, threatening our way of life forever. You
Read More »Murdoch Wants Even More
This article was reported by Jo Becker, Richard Siklos, Jane Perlez and Raymond Bonner, and written by Ms. Becker. In the fall of 2003, a piece of Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling media empire was in
Read More »Blair rejects call for EU referendum
Matthew Tempest, political correspondent Monday June 25, 2007 Guardian Unlimited Holding a referendum on the EU treaty would entail “sucking the energy out of the country for months”, Tony Blair said today. Making his
Read More »“Demonstration” Government in Palestine
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News In 1984 (a year of Orwellian significance), activist and media and social critic Edward Herman wrote one of his many important books titled “Demonstration Elections.” In it, he
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