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Exposed: Secret Government Collusion with GM Firm
Ministers are funding genetically modified crop projects with scores of millions of pounds every year and are colluding with a biotech company to ease its GM tests, the IoS can reveal. Geoffrey Lean on
Read More »20% of US Troops Suffer Brain Injury
MoD begins study amid fears that up to 20,000 soldiers may be affected Matthew Taylor and Esther Addley The Guardian The Ministry of Defence is conducting a major study into brain injury in troops
Read More »Giuliani Dishonesty: Secret 9/11 Commission Testimony
Mike Aivaz and Muriel Kane David Shuster, substituting for Keith Olbermann as host of Countdown, reported on Thursday that Rudy Giuliani’s description of himself as the only candidate who foresaw the danger posed by
Read More »All in the (Crime) Family: Bush & Blackwater
Like a cancer, private mercenary firm spreads influence in local communities. When the private military company Blackwater USA, a firm tied to the Bush family through marriage and to right-wing extremist and racist groups
Read More »Ruling By Decree
By Jacob Hornberger Immediately after he denounced Fidel Castro for being a dictator, President Bush unilaterally decreed new sanctions against Iran, moving the United States closer to war against Iran. Would someone please tell
Read More »Charity accused of child trafficking
· 16 EU nationals held over planned airlift of ‘orphans’ · Jet charter company says it had permit for flight Xan Rice in Nairobi, Dale Fuchs in Madrid and Alasdair Sandford in Paris Monday
Read More »Schwarzenegger: ‘Marijuana is not a drug, it’s a leaf’
By Ciar Byrne Already facing enough problems with the wild fires that have swept California, the state’s governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may have stepped into a new row by claiming that marijuana is not a
Read More »Bush stabs America in the back
Keith Olbermann speaks for America regarding the corruption in the White House and Senate. We must ALL be on guard because this country is getting ready to turn into a dictatorship. We must clean
Read More »Ten ways to thwart Big Brother
We’ve never been under such intense scrutiny as we are today. So how do we evade the snoopers? Here, an ‘off-grid’ expert offers an insider’s guide By Nick Rosen We live in the most
Read More »Is Bush Administration Planning Martial Law?
Congressman DeFazio Denied Access to Government Documents By David Gutierrez The Bush Administration shocked lawmakers and analysts two months ago when it denied a member of the House Homeland Security Committee permission to examine
Read More »Rumsfeld flees France fearing arrest
Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of “ordering and authorizing” torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the US military’s detainment
Read More »School uniforms use RFID to track kids
Trevor Darnborough, whose company, Darnbro, filed for a patent on securing RFID tags to clothing, hopes other schools will be interested. By Thomas Claburn Ten schoolchildren in the United Kingdom are being tracked by
Read More »Street cleaners prepare to blast Banksy away
Critics call the graffiti artist a genius, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have paid £1m for his work. But Hackney council has ordered its workers to power-hose his pictures out of sight By
Read More »White House Leak: Cheney’s Plan for Iran Attack
High-ranking military experts say an attack would lead to world economic chaos, or even what Bush calls ‘World War III.’ By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Cordula Meyer, Der Spiegel US Vice President Dick Cheney
Read More »De Menezes ‘shot for 30 seconds’ to silence him? Why?
By John A Blacker RINF Alternative News Witness feared terrorists were attacking train as police GUNNED Brazilian, leaked statement reveals Armed police officers under the control of “Common Purpose “ Agent Cressida Dick fired
Read More »CIA resumes use of secret prisons
The CIA has resumed its use of overseas secret prisons, The Washington Post reported Saturday. In the last six months, five new terrorism suspects have been transferred to the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay,
Read More »Government secrecy changes promised
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has presented plans to overhaul secrecy and data protection laws. In a speech on the subject of liberty, the Prime Minister has revealed plans to extend Freedom of Information laws,
Read More »Diana was alive after the crash: Witness
Princess Diana cried, “Oh my God, oh my God,” as she lay in the smoking wreckage of the car, according to one of the first witnesses to reach the crash site in the Paris
Read More »‘Ghost prisoners’ not accounted for after held by CIA
Rights groups wonder where the roughly 30 are being kept By CRAIG WHITLOCK On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA’s overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaida leaders
Read More »Neocon Tells Audience To ‘Shut Up’
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Arch-Neo Con Norman Podhoretz’s book reading at a recent Barnes and Noble appearance in New York turned into a hostile affair after he told the audience that Iran should
Read More »Conversations with Castro
Aged 81, the world’s longest-serving leader is turning his thoughts to his legacy and the succession. In an exclusive extract from his autobiography, Fidel Castro talks to Ignacio Ramonet about vanity and cruelty –
Read More »VIDEO: Bullshit 2008 – are you ready?
Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters From “The Onion” It’s funny, then you realize it’s completely accurate. For a majority of likely voters, meaningless bullshit will be the most important factor
Read More »VIDEO: Clips from ‘Taking Liberties’
People will only wake up to the destruction of their civil liberties when it is too late to do anything about it. That is the fear driving a new documentary film which aims to
Read More »EBay spends $2M lobbying gov agencies including CIA
CBS News Online auctioneer eBay Inc. spent almost US$2-million lobbying various departments of the federal government in the past year, including an entity rarely named on federal disclosure forms: the Central Intelligence Agency. According
Read More »Poisoned spy WAS a paid-up MI6 agent
EXCLUSIVE by STEPHEN WRIGHT and DAVID WILLIAMS The former Russian spy poisoned in a London hotel was an MI6 agent, the Daily Mail can reveal. Alexander Litvinenko was receiving a retainer of around £2,000
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