Daily Archives: April 21, 2008 »
Zimbabwe ballot box seals broken
By Peta Thornycroft | Zimbabwe’s regime has been accused of a “concerted effort” to rig the election for Robert Mugabe as it emerged that seals protecting ballot boxes have been broken. A partial recount
Read More »Bush Using NAFTA to Eliminate Laws
By Greg Palast |Psst! George Bush has a secret. While you Democrats are pounding each other to a pulp in Pennsylvania, the President has snuck back down to New Orleans for a meeting of
Read More »The US Economy and the Costs of War
By Dave Lindorff | Is the Iraq War to blame for America’s long-term economic decline and for the current economic crisis? Martin Neil Baily, a chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President
Read More »Prince William allegedly misused copter
UPI — The propriety of Britain’s Prince William using a military helicopter to visit his girlfriend is being questioned, a political party spokesman said. Liberal Democrat defense spokesman Nick Harvey said the accusations the
Read More »What if 5.3 Million More Americans Could Vote?
By Erika Wood | Millions of people in the U.S. can’t vote because of felony convictions. Restoring their right to vote means restoring democracy. This is a big year for American democracy. Hundreds of thousands
Read More »Pentagon Institute Calls Iraq War ‘a Major Debacle’
By Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott | The war in Iraq has become “a major debacle” and the outcome “is in doubt” despite improvements in security from the buildup in U.S. forces, according
Read More »British dealers supply arms to Iran
By Mark Townsend | Customs probe reveals sanctions-busting sales of arms, missile technology and nuclear components. Investigators have identified a number of British arms dealers trading with Tehran, triggering alarm among government officials who
Read More »U.S. to Expand Collection Of Crime Suspects’ DNA
By Ellen Nakashima and Spencer Hsu | Washington Post Staff Writers | The U.S. government will soon begin collecting DNA samples from all citizens arrested in connection with any federal crime and from many
Read More »Top Bush aides pushed for Guantánamo torture
By Brad DeLong | OGMB sends us to: Top Bush aides pushed for Guantánamo torture: Senior officials bypassed army chief to introduce interrogation methods by Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian, Saturday April 19 2008: America’s
Read More »Should flawed war-crimes court be scrapped?
McClatchy-Tribune News Service | The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Thursday, April 17: The boycotts of hearings by terror suspects is the latest challenge to the war-crimes court at Guantanamo Bay,
Read More »Peace Activist Faces up to 6 Months in Prison
By PeteinDC | David Barrows challenged Gen. Petraeus During September 2007 Hearing. Sentencing this Wednesday, April 23, at 9:30 a.m. in Courtroom 220 of D.C. Superior Court, 500 Indiana Avenue N.W. Challenged Gen. Petraeus
Read More »Drink-drive offenders could keep licences
By Ben Webster | Drink drivers would no longer automatically lose their licences under government plans to lower the alcohol limit for motorists to the equivalent of less than a pint of beer or
Read More »The Hidden Battle to Control the World’s Food Supply
By Amy Goodman | Food riots are breaking out across the planet. We must re-examine corporate control of the food supply. The rise in global food prices has sparked a number of protests in
Read More »Guantánamo torture records lost
By Elana Schor The former head of interrogations at Guantánamo Bay found that records of an al-Qaida suspect tortured at the prison camp were mysteriously lost by the US military, according to a new
Read More »Teachers’ strike could shut 1,000 schools
By Polly Curtis | The Guardian Rush to inform parents of closures before Thursday as holiday ends. More than 1,000 schools in England and Wales could be closed and most will have to send
Read More »Exposed: the great GM crops myth
By Geoffrey Lean Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent. Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining
Read More »Alistair Darling in £50bn gamble to aid banks
By Robert Winnett Alistair Darling will unveil an unprecedented scheme to offer £50 billion in taxpayer-backed loans to high street mortgage lenders today in an attempt to solve the credit crisis. The Chancellor hopes
Read More »Questions No One Is Bothering to Ask about Iraq
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Can there be any question that, since the invasion of 2003, Iraq has been unraveling? And here’s the curious thing: Despite a lack of decent information and analysis on crucial
Read More »Decriminalising Pot Would Save $10 Billion a Year
By Justin Hartfield Jeffery A. Miron finds that by decriminalizing cannabis, the federal government would generate $2.4 billion in federal tax revenue annually, and that an additional $7.7 billion would be saved as the
Read More »Behind Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
By DAVID BARSTOW In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty
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