Daily Archives: March 19, 2008 »
UK teachers forced to work 100-hour weeks
Teachers in independent schools are being denied the most basic employment rights, with some not having written contracts and others forced to work more than 100 hours a week. Growing competition to perform well
Read More »Russia said to receive U.S. missile shield plan
MOSCOW – Russia received written U.S. proposals on Wednesday which Washington hopes will allay Moscow’s concerns over plans to deploy elements of a missile shield in Europe, Russian news agencies reported. U.S. Secretary of
Read More »Blues raided as part of corruption investigation
Birmingham have been raided by police officers investigating football corruption. The club has promised to co-operate fully with police after financial documents were taken away to be examined early on Wednesday morning. The raid
Read More »Brown promises to meet Dalai Lama
Gordon Brown has said he will meet Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama when he visits the UK.The prime minister has faced pressure from opponents to make the commitment after recent protests in
Read More »Human rights groups slam EU over Tibet stance
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have slammed the European Union’s stance over Tibet, calling the reaction “tepid” and demanding much more robust pressure on China from
Read More »Human rights activist on trial in China
BEIJING – Hu Jia, a human rights activist and commentator, was tried in a Beijing court yesterday on charges of inciting subversion against the Chinese government through his writings on the Internet. Hu’s lawyer,
Read More »Pentagon Destroys Guantanamo Evidence
The Pentagon “likely” overwrote or deleted video recordings of a Guantanamo detainee that were subject to a court preservation order, according to a Department of Defense lawyer. In a declaration Monday night in U.S.
Read More »Blackwater sells itself as a peacekeeper
Blackwater Worldwide, the private security company whose guards are accused of shooting dead 17 Iraqi civilians last year, is attempting to reposition itself as a peacekeeping force as work in Iraq begins to dry
Read More »DNA database will not be extended, says minister
MPs told that calls from senior police officers will not be answered. The government has no plans to extend the DNA database despite the wishes of senior figures within the police force to do
Read More »CCTV may soon ‘identify’ criminals
· Offenders’ faces tracked through CCTV images · Scheme part of ‘hi-tech revolution on the beat’ The police are developing the first national database of mugshots so that they can use face recognition technology
Read More »VIDEO: Blockade of the World Biofuels Market
Thursday March 13th 2008, the World Biofuels Market was blocked by an international group of activists that want to show the world that the Agrofuel Industry is heavily into greenwashing, and is not saving
Read More »The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn
Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and
Read More »Dalai Lama threatens to quit over Tibet violence
The Dalai Lama has rejected claims by the Chinese government that he orchestrated the demonstrations in Tibet and said he would stand down as head of the country’s exiled government if the violence continued.
Read More »Bush Still Spinning Nukes in Iran
The unanimous conclusion of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, that Iran ceased pursuing a program of nuclear weapons in 2003, has dealt a severe blow to the Bush-Cheney agenda of forcible regime change in
Read More »Is this the end of traditional governments?
In the first chapter of David Rothkopf’s “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making,” the author quotes Mark Malloch Brown, a British minister of state and former deputy secretary-general of
Read More »Big Brother Keeping Tabs On Students
New technology is helping Guilford County school leaders keep an eye on your kids. Greensboro, NC — The district installed the first surveillance cameras more than a decade ago, but an upgrade now gives
Read More »Postal voting cheats are threat to May elections
Fears of widespread fraud in the local elections in May were raised yesterday after a judge said that the rules for postal ballots were fatally flawed. Just weeks before more than two million people
Read More »The Iraq War as a War Crime
The Iraq War – now ending its fifth bloody year – represents not only a human tragedy of enormous consequence and possibly the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history but also a systemic failure
Read More »Henry rules out Premier League return
‘We’re in the quarter-final of the Champions League and in a good place in the league. It’s certainly nothing to be crying about’ Manchester City will not be welcoming Henry to Eastlands any time
Read More »Homeland Security’s Five Years of Mistakes
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just turned five years old. It seems like it was born just yesterday. The department’s growing pains have made it a slow learner and a downright ugly child.
Read More »Reviving Vietnam War Tactics
The top counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq advocates practicing a “global Phoenix Program,” alluding to the notorious Vietnam-era CIA operation that provoked a worldwide uproar because of the detention, torture and
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