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Iraq’s Environmental Crisis
By Jeffrey St Clair and Joshua Frank The ecological effects of war, like its horrific toll on human life, are exponential. When the Bush Administration and their Congressional allies sent our troops in to
Read More »Seven years since the Blair slow hand-clap
Seven years since the Blair slow hand-clap, the WI is getting tough in Wales By Rhodri Clark GETTING a slow hand-clap from the massed ranks of Women’s Institute members was one of the first
Read More »BBC: Big Brother Cooperation
It’s a matter of alarm and concern that there are so many people out there who still believe that the BBC is a balanced and fair-minded source of news and current affairs. That belief
Read More »The Programming Language for Mass Surveillance
According to government documents studied by The New York Times, the FBI asked several phone companies to analyze phone-call patterns of Americans using a technology called “communities of interest”. Verizon refused, saying that it
Read More »No evidence of Iran building nuclear weapons – U.N.
ElBaradei says he has no evidence Tehran is developing nuclear weapons Indymedia (Hidden from newswire) The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build
Read More »Coming Soon – Police in Schools
EMMA JUDD Swansea’s police are to go back to class in a new drive to have community police based at every comprehensive school in the city within a year. The plan was announced by
Read More »Blackwater guards ‘given immunity’
Private US security guards being investigated over a shooting in Iraq that left 17 civilians dead, have reportedly been offered immunity by the US state department. The Blackwater employees, who were guarding an embassy
Read More »Human rights expert calls for Guantanamo closure
A United Nations human rights expert called on the US to put on trial or release all people detained as “unlawful enemy combatants”, move quickly to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba
Read More »‘When President does it, it’s not illegal’
By Nicole Belle Download (Windows) Download (Quicktime) BILL MOYERS: Remember “The Lives of Others” – the movie that won this year’s Academy Award for best foreign language film….a story of life under East Germany’s secret
Read More »Shouting at the Devil
By Jason Miller RINF Alternative News “America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role
Read More »Appeals Court Shuffle Shields FBI Tactics Post 9/11
Kathy Gill It sounded good: Egyptian student helps 9-11 hijackers with airplane radio. Too good, in fact, because Abdallah Higazy is suing an FBI agent because of a coerced a confession in the wake
Read More »UK firm sued over US soldier’s death
· Erinys guards accused of causing death in Iraq · Authorities close down UK contractors in Afghanistan Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington The Guardian A British private security firm hired to protect the oil installations
Read More »“Fool me once…” Ian R. Crane – Just released on DVD
Order your copy here Only £5.99 “Fool me once …” is the latest offering from one of the UK’s most active Truth Campaigner’s. Recorded live at the Glastonbury Symposium in July 2007 Ian R.
Read More »An Alternative to IMF and World Bank Dominance
The Bank of the South: An Alternative to IMF and World Bank Dominance By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News In July, 2004, the IMF and World Bank commemorated the 60th anniversary of their founding
Read More »Blair was warned of looming disaster in Iraq
By John Ware John Ware discloses how the former prime minister was told repeatedly about America’s lack of planning for peace – and did nothing Five days after the fall of Saddam, Tony Blair
Read More »Why America Sent Someone to Be Tortured in Syria
Condoleeza Rice loses her memory at the most convenient times–call it diplomatic Alzheimers. Asked why America sent an innocent Canadian, Maher Arar, to be tortured in Syria, she answered: My memory of some of
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