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Ohio voting machines have critical flaws
Report: Ohio voting machines have critical flaws, could undermine ’08 election CINCINNATI– All five voting systems used in Ohio, a state whose electoral votes narrowly swung two elections toward President Bush, have critical flaws
Read More »VIDEO: Faked 9/11 evidence
Mind boggling No matter how often I look at this, it remains shocking. There’s only one conclusion to draw from all this: There is no real news reporting in the United States. There is
Read More »Brown suffers further poll slump
By David Clarke LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour Party trails the Conservatives by the largest margin in more than 15 years, an opinion poll for the Sunday Times showed. The poll
Read More »Inside the CIA’s notorious ”black sites”
A Yemeni man never charged by the U.S. details 19 months of brutality and psychological torture – the first in-depth, first-person account from inside the secret U.S. prisons. by Mark Benjamin WASHINGTON — The
Read More »Prison interrogation techniques in Israel
Gideon Levy “We have to make you do a little sports,” the Shin Bet interrogator said, launching four successive days of questioning accompanied by brutal physical torture. The result: Luwaii Ashqar can no longer
Read More »Bush and Cheney: All Dressed up and no Place to Go
Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay “The leader whose thinking process most resembles [Adolf] Hitler’s is our own president. —Like Hitler, (George W.) Bush’s ideological beliefs have blinded him to reality, and like Hitler, he seems impervious
Read More »The Dollar Fallback
Until late January this year, the hosiery town of Tirupur had been in a state of euphoria. Within days, its glee turned into a grimace. Until late January this year, the hosiery town of
Read More »Remains of toxic DU bullets
By Scott Peterson BAGHDAD – At a roadside produce stand on the outskirts of Baghdad, business is brisk for Latifa Khalaf Hamid. Iraqi drivers pull up and snap up fresh bunches of parsley, mint
Read More »Hacking the Mind
Intrusive Brain Reading Surveillance Technology “We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be
Read More »Rules of War as Outlined in Geneva Conventions
1. Attacks may be made solely against military targets. Parties to a conflict must distinguish between civilians and combatants, and civilians may not be attacked. 2. Persons who do not or can no longer
Read More »Guantanamo “Living like an animal living in a cage”
By Mohamed Vall in Khartoum, Sudan Adil Hassan Hamad can scarcely believe he is back with his family in Sudan, because only days ago he was still in the US’s Guantanamo Bay prison in
Read More »Congressmen urge impeachment
US Vice President Dick Cheney (L) Three senior US Democrats in Congress urge the immediate commencement of hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. Democrats Robert Wexler of Florida, Luis Gutierrez of
Read More »Ron Paul: Bush no authority to rule world
Presidential hopeful Ron Paul says President Bush has started empire-building by invading Iraq and Afghanistan and beating the drums of war with Iran. Presidential hopeful Ron Paul The decision to invade Iraq in 2003
Read More »Troops investigated over smuggling stolen guns
By Jonathan Owen and Andrew Johnson British soldiers are under investigation over the theft of a weapons cache in Iraq. The Ministry of Defence launched an inquiry after troops attempted to smuggle the weapons
Read More »US: Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry
Eric Lichtblau, James Risen and Scott Shane For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by top officials, to persuade Congress to pass
Read More »Congress, Bush in clash over CIA interrogation tapes
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Congress and President George W. Bush were headed for confrontation Saturday as US lawmakers accused the Justice Department of blocking their probe into whether the CIA tried to cover up torture
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