Daily Archives: April 8, 2008 »
Police custody services may go private
LUCY ADAMS Scottish police forces have been asked to consider privatising custody services and told to improve cells to take greater account of offenders’ human rights. A report published today by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate
Read More »5,000 children a month added to DNA database
Christopher Hope One in four people being added to the DNA database is a child, it emerged yesterday. The figure provides further evidence that the Government’s “Big Brother” national database is increasingly targeting young
Read More »Fisk: Hizbollah turns to Iran in war on Israel
By Robert Fisk in Teir Dibba, south Lebanon Tuesday, 8 April 2008 The Shia “martyrs” of this hill village are normally killed in the dangerous, stony landscape of southern Lebanon, in Israeli air raids
Read More »Secret US plan for military future in Iraq
Seumas Milne The Guardian A confidential draft agreement covering the future of US forces in Iraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for an open-ended military presence in the country.
Read More »Breaking Through the News Filter
Peter Chamberlin If it is true that the power belongs to the people in America, and Congress still answers to the people, then what force prevents the people from rising up to demand that
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