Daily Archives: September 19, 2007 »
U.S. Spy Chief: 9/11 ‘Could Have Been Prevented’
Director of National Intelligence Says U.S. Didn’t Connect Available Information By JASON RYAN and THERESA COOK (AP Photo) Six years after the deadliest attack on U.S. soil, the head of U.S. spy operations admitted
Read More »Bush calls for expansion of spy law
President Bush, right, accompanied by Raul Yanes, Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary, waves as they leave the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007, as the president
Read More »Safer society or Big Brother state?
Marcel Berlins The Guardian The question we need to ask about the storing of DNA samples is the same as the one bedevilling our approach to identity cards, and stiff anti-terrorism legislation. Crudely, it
Read More »Is the mis-use of IT destroying our civil liberties?
This is a question that we all must think hard about because many Governments and private companies around the world are building up vast databases of personal data, biometrics and more. The UK Government
Read More »UK TV Documentary about surveillance and privacy needs YOU!
Are you concerned about government surveillance? Or do you think we’re heading for an Orwellian mass surveillance system? Firecracker Films are making a documentary about surveillance society and individuals increasing loss of privacy and
Read More »Calls grow for Bush war crimes trial
U.S. President George W. Bush will definitely be tried at an international tribunal, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said in a sermon at this week’s Friday prayers in Tehran. The
Read More »“Unrecognized” Palestinians
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News Israel’s population today is about 7,150,000. About 5.4 million are Jews (76%) plus another 400,000 Jewish settlers in over 200 expanding settlements on occupied Palestinian land in the
Read More »The Greatest Story Never Told
By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News No issue is more sensitive in the US than daring to criticize Israel. It’s the metaphorical “third rail” in American politics, academia and the major media. Anyone daring
Read More »Human rights groups accuse MoD of hypocrisy over cluster bombs
· Weapon reclassified to escape ban, say critics · Unexploded munitions are threat to civilians Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian Humanitarian organisations accuse the Ministry of Defence today of reclassifying one its newest weapons to
Read More »US halts diplomatic convoys in Iraq
The US embassy in Baghdad has suspended all diplomatic convoys outside the heavily fortified Green Zone and the rest of Iraq. The move comes as the Iraqi government said it would review the status
Read More »Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil
Graham Paterson AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. In his long-awaited memoir, to be published
Read More »US agrees further British withdrawal from Iraq
· Petraeus and UK officials give upbeat assessment · Announcement could come next month Richard Norton-Taylor and Ian Black The Guardian General David Petraeus holds talks with British officials. Photograph: David Levene Britain
Read More »Iraq to review legal status of private security companies
By Kim Sengupta The Iraqi government announced yesterday that it will review the legal status of all private security contractors working in the country in the wake of the banning of the American company
Read More »Bush’s ‘proxy war’ claim over Iran exposed
By Gareth Porter In his prepared statement to the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees last week, General David Petraeus claimed that Iran is using the Quds Force to turn
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