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A third American war crime in the making
The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran. If only America had an independent media and an
Read More »CIA enlists Google’s help for spy work
US intelligence agencies are using Google’s technology to help its agents share information about their suspects Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather
Read More »McCain says he wants Guantanamo closed
Supporting many European Union officials stance, US Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has called for the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison for alleged terrorist detainees. “I believe we should close
Read More »Guantanamo Prisoner Charged in Embassy Attack
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The U.S. has charged a Guantanamo prisoner with war crimes for the deadly 1998 al-Qaida attack on the American embassy in Tanzania. The Pentagon said Monday that Ahmed Khalfan
Read More »Bill proposes violent criminals should submit DNA
Meg Bernhardt ANNAPOLIS — A bill to allow officers to take a sample of DNA from people charged with certain violent crimes is close to passage in the Maryland General Assembly, despite fears that
Read More »Jnquest Judge: There was no Diana murder plot
London – The judge in the inquest on the death of Princess Diana in 1997 flatly told the jury Monday that she was not murdered in any alleged plot instigated by the British secret
Read More »Tibetan monk protests reflect growing activism
More Buddhist monks, nuns likely to revolt against injustice, oppression. BANGKOK, Thailand – Buddhist monks hurling rocks at Chinese in Tibet, or peacefully massing against Myanmar’s military, can strike jarring notes. These scenes run
Read More »Detainee claims torture at U.S. base
Says he received electric shocks in Afghanistan after being seized over alleged links to 9/11. WASHINGTON – A resident of Germany who was imprisoned for two months at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan
Read More »UK: Mass genetic surveillance
Richard Taylor Britain’s police want to routinely put children as young as five on the National DNA Database (NDNAD), even when no crime has been committed. Gary Pugh, the DNA spokesman for the Association
Read More »Diana inquest coroner to sum up
The coroner in charge of the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales is to begin his summing up to the jury. It is the final stage before the 11-person jury, which
Read More »SOCPA: The GLA’s campaign against Brian Haw
Having failed to get rid of Brian Haw by force the Greater London Authority is trying again by legislation, their responses to the government consultation ‘Managing Protest around Parliament’ all seem to be aimed
Read More »Police arrest 80 year old anti-war protester
An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War. Police said that Don Zirkel,
Read More »Iraq War Dataset: $506 Billion Spent, 4,002 Dead
Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides On March 26, 2008 the United States military casualty count in Iraq hit 4,000. When I heard that I decided to research other numbers associated with the war. Over the past
Read More »VIDEO: Halliburton poisoning US forces in Iraq?
This 4 minute video describes how Halliburton is poisoning the troops in Iraq through their water supply
Read More »Keegan turns back the clock as Newcastle tick
David Hytner at White Hart Lane Kevin Keegan noted last week that it did not take much to set Geordie pulses racing. A couple of wins at the beginning of a season and the
Read More »Watchdog’s threat to 42-day terror law
Alan Travis | The Guardian The government’s own human rights watchdog threatened last night to launch a legal challenge to Labour’s plan to introduce a law that would let police detain terror suspects without charge
Read More »NZ becomes first country for Earth Hour lights out
WELLINGTON (Xinhua) — New Zealand and Fiji on Saturday became the first countries to take part in Earth Hour, an event aimed at reducing emissions that contribute to climate change. A total of 24 cities
Read More »The Ron Paul Revolution Enters A New Phase
We seem to be entering a distinct second phase of the Ron Paul Revolution. It is arguably the most important phase. At least that is how I see it. The Presidential campaign was the
Read More »Federal Reserve could be given more power
America’s Treasury Department will tomorrow put forward plans for a revamp of US financial regulation in an attempt to curb the lending excesses that triggered the credit crisis. The new blueprint, drawn up by
Read More »Fans face FA Cup Tube chaos
FANS travelling to Wembley Stadium to watch Cardiff City’s FA Cup semi-final clash next weekend had their plans thrown into chaos yesterday as London Underground workers announced a strike to begin just minutes after
Read More »Put Impeachment Back on the Table
Chairman John Conyers House Judiciary Committee U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20510Dear Chairman Conyers: Prominent Constitutional law experts believe President Bush has engaged in at least, five categories of repeated, defiant
Read More »Claim soldiers do not want Iraq inquiry rejected
Gordon Brown’s claim that an inquiry into the war in Iraq would be a “distraction” for Britain’s troops on the ground has been repudiated by some of the country’s former defence chiefs. The Prime
Read More »Are We Really That Ill?
CHICAGO – America has reached a point where almost half its population is described as being in some way mentally ill, and nearly a quarter of its citizens – 67.5 million – have taken
Read More »Spirit of internet at risk, campaigners warn
A promise by the biggest broadband provider in the US that it would stop discriminating against users who swap music and video online has failed to quell a grassroots movement demanding legislation to protect
Read More »House panel passes measure on collecting DNA
Despite last-minute objections from Baltimore State’s Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy, legislation to expand collection of DNA samples from suspects charged with violent crimes moved a step closer to final passage Friday, as a House
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