Monthly Archives: February 2008 »
VIDEO: Globalisation and the Media
An award winning documentary exploring the role of the mass media during the War on ‘Terror’ & Economic trade. Consider a wide range of viewpoints from mainstream news editors, computer hackers, journalists and media
Read More »VIDEO: Insanely Corrupt – “Mercury is good for you!”
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/280.html Now I’ve seen it all This is how insanely corrupt the United States has become.The pharmaceutical industry that has handicapped countless children with mercury-based vaccines is able to buy a study that says
Read More »McCain’s Other War Frauds
James Bovard Amongst all the media teeth-gnashing over the question of whether McCain did special favors for his blondie lobbyist, his wife’s sweetheart deal for massive narcotics theft in the 1990s has been forgotten.
Read More »The new invasion of Iraq
Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion which threatens to destabilise the country’s only peaceful region By Patrick Cockburn A new crisis has exploded in Iraq after Turkish troops, supported by attack planes
Read More »The DNA database that will turn us into a Police State
Daily Mail We seem to be busily building the world’s first popular police state. Opinion polls show high levels of support for identity cards, surveillance cameras, detention without trial – and now a national
Read More »It’s official: Blair’s government set out to deceive us
The New Statesman In July 2003, in the week following the death of David Kelly, a reader contacted the New Statesman and suggested that the media were missing the obvious. The Commons foreign affairs
Read More »High-tech US border surveillance
Washington warns that the recently-developed high-tech virtual fence on the US-Mexican border is fully prepared to tackle any form of illegal crossings. The $20 million ‘Project 28′ features cutting-edge sensor towers and advanced mobile
Read More »Telecoms Backing Off Illegal Wiretaps for Bush
Without protection against lawsuits, are the telecoms less willing to cooperate with government spying efforts? By Mark Hosenball | Newsweek It’s been barely a week since the Democratic-controlled Congress allowed a temporary electronic spying
Read More »Laying The Groundwork For One-World Religion?
Ruth Gledhill A diocese of the Church of England is giving an unprecedented £250,000 towards a multifaith building in which the largest amount of worship space will be reserved for Muslims. The Guildford diocese
Read More »CIA Waterboarding Probe Revealed By Feds
Bush White House Maintains Waterboarding Was Legal When Used The Justice Department has opened an internal investigation into whether its top officials improperly authorized or reviewed the CIA’s use of waterboarding when interrogating terror
Read More »Who Should be on The DNA Register?
Iain Dale Balancing the responsibilities of the State against the rights of the individual is one ofthe most difficult things for politicians to get right. The tendency is to be all in favour of
Read More »Wikileaks and Internet Censorship
JONATHAN WERVE Using data from the Global Integrity Index, we put a U.S. court’s recent order to block access to anti-corruption site Wikileaks.org into context. In summary: The Wikileaks.org shutdown is unheard of in
Read More »Police face DNA ban
Sean O’Neill, David Brown and Richard Ford European judges could strip the profiles of more than half a million people from the national DNA database on privacy grounds — undermining its growing value to
Read More »AUDIO: Tony Gosling – Behind Secret Societies
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Hidden Agenda Behind Secret Societies A jaw dropping presentation by Tony Gosling. Tony is a journalist and researcher coming all the way from Bristol. He
Read More »US Accused of Racial Discrimination
By Lisa Schlein A coalition of human rights organizations is accusing the United States of persistent and systematic racial discrimination. The U.S.- based groups have submitted a 600-page report to the 18-member U.N. Committee
Read More »Gitmo Trials Rigged from the Start?
By Ross Tuttle A damning new interview reveals that the Gitmo trials are only for show. Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the
Read More »Release nears for critical report on ID-cards
Ian Grant The government is close to releasing a critical report about the controversial £4.3bn ID-card plan.The report, now nearly a year behind schedule, is expected to spell out the government’s options on how
Read More »Leaked Documents Spring Up Across Web
By Elana Schor The US court order shutting down the website Wikileaks today appeared to backfire on the Swiss bank that sought the legal action, as bloggers and other fans of the site gave
Read More »Troops accused of Iraq ‘executions’
Up to 20 Iraqi civilians may have been executed by British troops in southern Iraq, it has been claimed. Lawyers published a dossier of evidence from men taken captive after a gun battle near
Read More »Indonesia accuses US of bird flu plot
Mark Forbes THE Indonesian Health Minister has said the United States and the World Health Organisation are part of a global conspiracy to profit from the spread of bird flu and the US may
Read More »Clintons to face fraud trial
Judge setting date, testimony to include ex-president, senator While Hillary Clinton battles Barack Obama on the campaign trail, a judge in Los Angeles is quietly preparing to set a trial date in a $17
Read More »Oil, Gas and the New World Order
Large Potential Albanian Oil and Gas Discovery Underscores Kosovo’s Importance By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News On January 10, Swiss-based Manas Petroleum Corporation broke the news. Gustavson Associates LLC’s Resource Evaluation identified large prospects
Read More »Stop The War – Mass Demo 15 March
Stop the War: a mass movement to celebrate and defend Socialist Worker The 15 February 2003 demonstration reminds us of the strength of the anti-war movement and shows the importance of the upcoming 15
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