Daily Archives: August 7, 2007 »
Children find food wrapped in McDonald’s packaging ‘six times tastier’
By FIONA MacRAE Children find food in McDonald’s packaging up to six times more appetising than the identical snacks in plain wrappers, research shows. The study, designed to gauge the power of advertising, revealed
Read More »Abandoned by Britain
Read the letters in full here Britain was accused yesterday of abandoning 91 Iraqi interpreters and their families to face persecution and possible death when British forces withdraw. The Times has learnt that the
Read More »Former Aide: Rudolph Giuliani would be ‘terrible’ president
By Philip Sherwell The former top antiterrorism aide to Rudolph Giuliani has launched a stinging critique of the former New York mayor over the September 11 atrocity, attacking a key pillar of his challenge
Read More »Brian Haw: ‘It is strange that they are spending so much money prosecuting me’
By Kim Sengupta As the Camp for Climate Action began planning in earnest for next week’s protest at Heathrow, one veteran protester against the Iraq war was also enjoying a moment of vindication. The
Read More »New Yorker: CIA Tactics Amount To Torture
The Central Intelligence Agency used “enhanced interrogation techniques” synonymous with torture while interrogating September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, according to a New Yorker article that appears on newsstands Monday. After Mohammed’s capture in
Read More »Weapons Given to Iraq Are Missing
GAO Estimates 30% of Arms Are Unaccounted For By Glenn Kessler The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according
Read More »Another cover-up of the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
By Julie Hyland The second report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission on the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes is yet another sordid episode in the cover-up of the brutal state execution of
Read More »US power to spy on foreigners gets nod
By Thomas Ferraro The Democratic-led US Congress yielded to President George Bush on Saturday and temporarily expanded the government’s power to spy on foreign suspects electronically without a court order . Civil liberties groups
Read More »Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg’s “Cracks in the Constitution”
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Ferdinand Lundberg (1905 – 1995) was a 20th century economist, journalist, historian and author of such books as The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in the Power
Read More »Top Ten Myths About the Illegal NSA Spying on Americans
MYTH: This is merely a “terrorist surveillance program.” REALITY: When there is evidence a person may be a terrorist, both the criminal code and intelligence laws already authorize eavesdropping. This illegal program, however, allows
Read More »Baghdad – 6 Million People, 117 Degrees And No Water
By Richard Becker For the past 24 hours, Baghdad has had virtually no running water. Major parts of the city of six million people have lacked running water for six days, while daily high
Read More »
