Daily Archives: April 22, 2008 »
THE DEBATE: UK Passports – Interview or Interrogation?
RINF | Can the Home Office justify raising passport costs to over £70 while spending nearly £100 million on interview centres that have zero effect in combating identity fraud or terrorism? Convicted terrorists have obtained and used fraudulent passports such
Read More »Detainees Allege Being Drugged To Coerce Confessions
By Joby Warrick | Adel al-Nusairi remembers his first six months at Guantanamo Bay as this: hours and hours of questions, but first, a needle. “I’d fall asleep” after the shot, Nusairi, a former Saudi
Read More »London ANPR mass surveillance snooping
By SpyBlog | Just in case you thought that Spy Blog has not tried the available, alleged “checks and balances” which are supposed to prevent the disproportionate abuse of our privacy and freedoms, you
Read More »British government lied about Persian Gulf incident
By Paul Mitchell | Secret Ministry of Defence documents released to the Times newspaper reveal that the British government lied about the circumstances surrounding the capture of 15 sailors and marines from HMS Cornwall
Read More »Amnesty unveils shock ‘waterboarding’ film
By Nigel Morris | An American expert in torture techniques has denounced his government for allowing “waterboarding” to be practised against terror suspects, just as a graphic advertisement showing the brutal reality of the
Read More »Earth Day: Is the impact worth the build-up?
By Heather Clancy | At the high-tech industry conference where I spent most of my day holed up in meetings on Monday, there was nary a mention of Earth Day. Surprised? I was, but
Read More »China police “shoot two” in village land protest
HONG KONG (Reuters) | Chinese police opened fire during a clash over land use between villagers and employees of China’s number two gold miner, killing two and wounding more than 20, a Hong Kong newspaper
Read More »DNA samples taken from polygamists’ kids
By Michelle Roberts | SAN ANGELO, Texas – Using cotton swabs and cameras, lab technicians began taking DNA samples Monday from hundreds of children and mothers — wearing long, pioneer-style dresses — in hopes
Read More »Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World
By Stephen Lendman | Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world’s poorest ones people are starving. The reason – soaring food prices, and it’s triggered riots around the world
Read More »Clinton on Iran Attack: ‘Obliterate Them’
By Jake Tapper | One day before Pennsylvania primary voters go to the polls, Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., spent the day trying to reach undecided voters, and rally their supporters to the
Read More »‘US cannot win in Afghanistan’
Press TV | The US-led coalition is not winning the war in Afghanistan and now is the time to make a fundamental correction, says a US serving officer. NATO and coalition forces are “stumbling
Read More »Ending Slavery for Pennies
By Katrina vanden Heuvel and Greg Kaufman | The slave-like conditions in the agriculture industry would shock most Americans. On April 15, at a packed Senate hearing on working conditions for tomato workers, Senator Bernie
Read More »The most potent weapon wielded by Murdoch and China
By George Monbiot | If you want to know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, read the reviews of Bruce Dover’s book, Rupert’s Adventures in China. Well, go on, read them. You can’t find any? I
Read More »Judges poised to deliver new blow on terror
By Sean O’Neill | Gordon Brown is facing a new battle over key anti-terrorism laws this week with the High Court set to rule against powers to freeze suspects’ bank accounts. Five men who
Read More »Controversial council tax database
By Tomos Livingstone | A CONTROVERSIAL database that calculates council tax bands according to features like parking space and the view from the front room is to be used in Wales. The database is
Read More »Irish Peace Activist Denied Entry into the United States
By Matthew Rothschild | Damien Moran got stuck at O’Hare. And it wasn’t because of all the planes that are being inspected for defects. No, it was because of his politics. On Sunday, April
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