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AP poll: Bush public approval at new low
WASHINGTON – Public approval of President Bush has dipped to a new low in the Associated Press-Ipsos poll, driven by dissatisfaction with his handling of the economy. A survey released Thursday showed 28 percent
Read More »How Brown makes the poor pay more tax
Socialist Worker And widens the gap between the rich and the rest of us LOSER: Call centre worker Abolition of bottom rate tax band will hit a 24 year old who earns less than £18,000
Read More »Bush Hypes Threat from Iran
Matthew Rothschild The Progressive In his speech on Thursday, Bush wasted little time before getting to the ominous subject of Iran. Time and time again, he lumped the alleged threat from Iran in the
Read More »Justice Department And Corporate Prosecutions
Democracy Now The Justice Department has put off prosecuting more than fifty companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years. The decline in prosecutions is seen as a deliberate and dramatic shift in
Read More »Another failure for the U.S. in Iraq
NICOLE COLSON reports on the aftermath of the Iraqi government’s offensive against Moktada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army. Socialist Worker SECURITY FORCES of the U.S.-backed Iraqi government may have carried out summary executions of members of
Read More »The BBC as an Imperial Tool?
Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News At a time of growing public disenchantment with the major media, millions now rely on alternate sources. Many online and print ones are credible. One of the world’s most
Read More »Top Bush Advisors Approved Torture
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central
Read More »Attempted citizen’s arrest on Ken Livingstone
Indymedia At 7.15 this evening supporters from Brian Haw’s peace camp attempted to make a citizen’s arrest of Ken Livingstone outside parliament. They were arresting him on suspicion of criminal damage, harrassment, assault, and
Read More »UN’s Arbour a “war criminal” says Barrister
The former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour is responsible for covering up the murder of the deceased President of Rwanda, the President of Burundi and many other persons who were assassinated
Read More »15 years for veteran who executed family
icWales A Gulf War veteran was told today he will spend at least 15 years in jail after a court heard how he executed four members of his family. Cannabis-smoking loner David Bradley, 43,
Read More »‘Iraq quagmire real threat to US’
The US is not capable of protecting itself from the threats to its security as far as it is entangled in Iraq, Democratic lawmakers say. Democrats criticized the Bush administration’s war policy during the
Read More »Starving Haitians riot as food prices soar
By Leonard Doyle in Washington Thursday, 10 April 2008 Demonstrators have tried to storm the presidential palace in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, as protests over hunger and rising food prices spread across the developing
Read More »Brown urges G8 action on food scarcity
Patrick Wintour The Guardian, Gordon Brown raised fresh concerns about the impact of biofuels yesterday, as he put rising food prices on the world agenda by writing to fellow G8 leaders to prepare an
Read More »Revolution is the Solution
By Cindy Sheehan One of the founders of the USA, Thomas Jefferson, said that the US should have a revolution every 20 years or so because “lethargy” is the “forerunner to the death of
Read More »Heathrow Protesters Uncover Spy Plot
Indymedia It has come to light that Oxford-educated Toby Kendall, 24, an employee of aerospace security consultants C2i International, infiltrated and spied on Heathrow campaign groups across London for a year. According to people
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