Monthly Archives: August 2007 »
Labour given £300,000 by unregistered ‘friends’
By Ben Russell A group which has donated more than £300,000 to Labour was not properly registered, the party has admitted. Labour Party officials asked Muslim Friends of Labour to register as a members’
Read More »Alarm as police offenders keep jobs in force
By Kate O’Hara More than 30 police officers serving in forces throughout Yorkshire were convicted of criminal offences last year, it has emerged. Revelations that so many law enforcers, most of whom are still
Read More »A new intelligence report paints a bleak picture of Iraq
By Warren P. Strobel and Leila Fadel A new assessment of Iraq by U.S. intelligence agencies provides little evidence that the American troop “surge” has accomplished its goals and predicts that the U.S.-backed government
Read More »Iraq corruption whistleblowers face penalties
Cases show fraud exposers have been vilified, fired, or detained for weeks AP One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq
Read More »The War On Working Americans – Part I
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News As Labor Day approaches, what better time to assess the state of working America. It’s under assault and weakened by decades of eroding rights in the richest country
Read More »Evidence Suggests CIA Purposefully Spiked Investigations
CIA Inspector General’s Report 911Blogger A grave miscarriage of justice is afoot. After years being withheld the Administration finally is forced to release the CIA’s IG Report on 9/11. While earlier news accounts said the
Read More »The police are becoming an anti-terror law unto themselves
GORDON ARCHER THE Metropolitan Police took a lot of flak last week for using anti-terrorism powers to manage the Heathrow climate change protest. In my opinion they deserved it, guilty as they were of
Read More »Chinese officials predicted 9/11 attacks
Imagine someone predicting the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in the US two years before the terror strike!Such a forecast was part of an analysis of the weaknesses of the American military
Read More »Fascist Police State Looms Closer With “Intelligent CCTV”
By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News A new CCTV system is being trialed at one of the UK’s busiest train stations. Known as “Intelligent CCTV”, the software will monitor and predict human behaviour and can
Read More »Aaron Russo dies of cancer
flamesong RINF Alternative News Unconfirmed reports on the internet suggest that filmmaker and political activist Aaron Russo died on 24th August 2007 after a struggle with cancer. He will be perhaps most remembered for
Read More »Robert Fisk: Even I question the ‘truth’ about 9/11
Each time I lecture abroad on the Middle East, there is always someone in the audience – just one – whom I call the “raver”. Apologies here to all the men and women who
Read More »Report: U.S. military chief to urge Bush to cut troops in Iraq
Xinhua The U.S. military chief is expected to call on President George W. Bush to reduce American troops in Iraq next year, a newspaper reported Friday. General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Read More »Last stand for Bush’s ‘stay the course’ crowd?
By Bill Berkowitz Freedom’s Watch, a new group of former ambassadors and Bush pitchmen are targeting dozens of congressional representatives with $15 million worth of pro-war radio and television advertisements It’s been a long
Read More »Bush: is the president imploding?
By Andrew Stephen His aides are jumping ship, his inner circle is torn apart by feuds and his orders are being ignored. Bush has 17 months left in the White House, but he is
Read More »North American Integration and the Militarization of the Arctic
By Michel Chossudovsky Global Research RINF Alternative News The Battle for the Arctic is part of a global military agenda of conquest and territorial control. It has been described as a New Cold War between
Read More »Market Efficiency Hokum
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News You know the story triumphantly heard in the West. Markets work best when governments let them operate freely – unconstrained by rules, regulations and taxes about which noted
Read More »Bush Administration Ignores Mossad-Al Qaeda Terrorist Link
By Tom Heneghan It can now be reported that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has identified an Israeli Mossad cell operating in duality with alleged Al Qaeda types in Washington State
Read More »British Army deploys new weapon based on mass-killing technology
By John Byrne Parliament not told, minister says A new ‘super-weapon‘ being supplied to British soldiers in Afghanistan employs technology based on the “thermobaric” principle which uses heat and pressure to kill people targeted
Read More »More WMD lies exposed
By Chris Ames Observations on WMD Alastair Campbell placed the September 2002 WMD dossier in the hands of the propaganda unit that later produced the plagiarised “dodgy dossier”, the New Statesman can reveal. New
Read More »Man Dies After Incident On Parkway West
A man died Thursday after an incident on the Parkway West. Police said they responded to a man they first believed was lying in front of the inbound side of the Fort Pitt tunnels. When
Read More »Fingerprint scanning at nursery
A fingerprint scanning system is being introduced at a nursery in Bath to allow only parents and staff access. The biometric controls are being introduced at the First Steps nursery to “enhance existing security
Read More »Iraq Government doomed to weaken: US intelligence
In a bleak outlook of the political situation in Iraq, US intelligence officials warned that Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s Government will become “more precarious” in the coming months. “The IC [intelligence community] assesses that
Read More »‘Put CCTV in addicts’ homes to protect children’
LUCY ADAMS A controversial plan for CCTV to be used to protect children in the homes of chaotic drug-abusing parents has been proposed by one of Scotland’s most eminent drugs experts. Professor Neil McKeganey,
Read More »CIA publishes pre-9/11 intelligence errors
We’ve long known that the left hand of the Bush Administration (if there is one) has seldom known what the right hand is doing, and that both hands can’t grasp reality but it is
Read More »Miami Five’s defense exposes errors and jury intimidation during trial
Granma International flamesong 21st August 2007 On August 20, the 11th Circuit Appeals Court in Atlanta heard convincing allegations by the legal team defending the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States.
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