• The Taliban rise again?

  The Taliban now control most of Afghanistan – and may soon share power, says robert fox President Karzai of...

   

• The Bush Family Gets Away with Crimes

  The Bush Family Gets Away with Crimes That Would Land Anyone Else in Jail The Bush Rules of Evidence By Robert Parry In...

   

• Bringing the War on Terrorism Home

  Congress Considers Methods to Disrupt Movements in the United States Bringing the War on Terrorism Home: Congress Considers...

   

• ID cards must be scrapped now, say MPs

  By Philip Johnston The future of Labour’s identity card project was increasingly in doubt yesterday as MPs called for...

   

• Canadian man dies 4 days after being Tasered

  A Canadian man died Saturday, four days after police used a Taser stun-gun on him because he reportedly was acting erratically...

   

• Tasers a form of torture, says UN

  TASER electronic stun guns are a form of torture that can kill, a UN committee has declared after several recent deaths in...

   

• Flight logs reveal secret rendition

  Stephen Grey THE secret flight plans of American military planes have revealed for the first time how European countries...

   

• A Generalized Meltdown of Financial Institutions

  Reality has finally caught up to the stock market. The American consumer is underwater, the banks are buried in debt, and...

   

• Halliburton Concentration Camps Already Constructed

  On February 17, 2006, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of the harm...

   

• Additives ‘a risk to children’s health’

  Parents have been warned to remove food additives linked to hyperactive behaviour from children’s diets by the EU’s...

   

• Japan opposition stands ground on Afghan mission

  TOKYO (AFP) — Japan’s opposition stood firm Thursday against resuming a naval mission supporting the US-led “war...

   

• Incompetence Shall Set Brits Free from Database Hell‏

  The lesson of the Great Data Loss is not that the Brit government and the civil service are incompetent (although they are),...

   

• Time to break free

  The Middle East’s oil exporters should end their currencies’ peg to the dollar IN THE past week Iran’s...

   

• Depleted Uranium Dust May Kill You

  DU May be Causing Global Contamination There are those who believe that the widespread use of Depleted Uranium in weaponry...

   

• Liar cop Blair survives no-confidence vote‏

  Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has won a vote of confidence by members of the Metropolitan Police Authority. The UK’s most...

   

• Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request

  By Ellen NakashimaFederal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking...

   

• Keating: US able to wage Iran war

  Admiral Timothy J. Keating claims the US is more than prepared to wage war on Iran if Washington chooses to launch a military...

   

• Socialist Firefighters To Spy for Feds

  By EILEEN SULLIVAN Firefighters in major cities are being trained to take on a new role as lookouts for terrorism, raising...

   

• Thanksgiving Reflections of an Anti-Capitalist

  Institutionalized Glorification of our Greed and Gluttony: Thanksgiving Reflections of an Anti-Capitalist Gluttony and greed...

   

• Rumsfeld Torture Case Dropped in France

  PARIS (AP) – A Paris prosecutor has thrown out a complaint against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture...

   

• Loose Change Final Cut Press Conference

  This is the official press launch for Loose Change Final Cut. The film is the third and final version of the most downloaded...

   

• Now for ID cards – and the biometric blues

  Ben Goldacre Sometimes just throwing a few long words about can make people think you know what you’re talking about....

   

• Expanding NSA Power Bad, Fourth Amendment Good

  By Ralph Lopez  Missing from the debate over expanding NSA authority in the War on Terror is the simple question, beyond...

   

• Data loss sends a chill down the spine

  The Guardian The government is disingenuous in suggesting that biometric data will protect information related to ID cards....

   

• VIDEO: Driver Tased For Asking Why He Was Stopped

  Man who refused to sign speeding ticket because he did not understand what it was is tased and arrested by officer who then...