• 151 Congressmen Profit From War

  Who profits from the Iraq war? More than a quarter of senators and congressmen have invested at least $196 million of their...

   

• Bush official forced to resign

  

  Apr 30, 2008 9:23

  Politico | Lurita Doan, head of the General Services Administration, was forced to offer her resignation tonight, according...

   

• Rice: Hamas Iran’s proxy warrior

  Press TV | US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has characterized Palestinian Hamas fighters as the “proxy warriors”...

   

• Government accused of “pimping”

  By David Barrett | Women and girls may be lured into prostitution by adverts placed in Jobcentres, MPs were warned today....

   

• Osama bin Laden’s driver walks out on Guantanamo trial

  GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – AP | Osama bin Laden’s former driver walked out on his war-crimes tribunal...

   

• Fourth Briton accuses MI5 of torture

  Ian Cobain – The Guardian | Human rights groups and MPs are calling for an investigation into claims that MI5 officers...

   

• Zimbabwe: Army behind new wave of human rights abuses

  The Zimbabwean army is responsible for a new wave of rights violations throughout Zimbabwe, Human Rights Watch said today....

   

• Labour revolt over ID cards

  

  Apr 30, 2008 8:45

  By Tom Shepherd | Campaigners fighting the Government’s plans for ID cards are claiming a victory after four Labour...

   

• Obama’s Break With Ex-Pastor Sets Sharp Shift in Tone

  NY Times | Senator Barack Obama broke forcefully on Tuesday with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., in an...

   

• Man freed by DNA testing after 27 years in prison

  AP | A Dallas man who spent more than 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit was freed Tuesday, after being...

   

• National “DNA warehouse” bill passes

  AAPS | Passing the House of Representatives on a voice vote, S. 1858 has been sent to President Bush for signature. The Newborn...

   

• Is it Google or China censoring Carrefour?

  By Garett Rogers | I guess either way, the answer is ultimately China, but this latest news on Google’s censorship in China...

   

• TV Networks Silenced Anti-War Voices

  By Jeff Cohen | In the fall of 2002, week after week, I argued vigorously against invading Iraq in debates televised on MSNBC....

   

• Murdoch accused as top US editor resigns

  By Andrew Clark – The Guardian | Four months after buying the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch has been accused...

   

• US Oil Major Complicit in Abuses – Rights Lobby

  By Marwaan Macan-Markar - IPS | An environmental group is warning U.S. energy giant Chevron to clean up its act in Burma...

   

• We Must Imagine a Life Without Oil

  By Mark Hertsgaard - The Nation | It used to be that only environmentalists and paranoids warned about running out of oil....

   

• The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian War

  By Paul Craig Roberts | It is 1939 all over again. The world waits helplessly for the next act of naked aggression by rogue...

   

• Amnesty accuses Moz police of torture

  AFP | Police in Mozambique are killing and torturing people with near total impunity, according to a report by Amnesty International...

   

• Increasing use of council surveillance powers

  Surveillance powers which allow local authorities to follow people and access their phone records have been used by Northamptonshire...

   

• Green Scare State Terrorism

  By Stephen Lendman – RINF | In May 2005, FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism John Lewis told a Senate...

   

• Lawmaker Threatens Subpoenas for Aides

  By Carrie Johnson | The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee threatened yesterday to subpoena Bush administration officials...

   

• New CSI Tool Analyzes Antibodies

  AP | Federal researchers say they’ve developed a human identification test that’s faster and possibly cheaper...

   

• U.S. reveals way to get off terror list

  UPI | The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a way for people who don’t belong on terrorist watch lists...

   

• Corporate America

  By Chris Hedges | The corporate state is our shadow government. Candidates who aspire to higher office get corporate money...

   

• Iraq mass graves yield 100 bodies

  Reuters | Iraqi security forces have found more than 100 bodies in two mass graves, military officials said on Sunday. Fifty...