Daily Archives: April 23, 2008 »
Students Skip Class For Obama Event, Get Suspended
By Jason Linkins | Joey Daniel and Colin Salter, two high school students in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, showed tremendous audacity yesterday when they skipped their gym class to attend an Obama event across the street
Read More »Olympic protest movement turns its sights on to sponsors
By Tania Branigan and Paul Kelso | The linked rings on every Chinese Coke bottle and the leaping athletes on each McDonald’s paper bag testify to the power the world’s biggest corporations believe this summer’s
Read More »Gitmo Torture Orders Came From The Top
By Scott Horton | British writer and international lawyer Philippe Sands is the author of The Torture Team , in stores May 5, which chronicles the role lawyers played in the introduction of the
Read More »Feds to require visitors’ fingerprints when they leave US
AP | The Bush administration would require commercial airlines and cruise-line operators to collect information such as fingerprints from international travelers and send the information to the Homeland Security Department soon after the travelers
Read More »Police: DNA database ready as early as next year
By Elizabeth Roberts | Bermuda could have its own DNA database within a couple of years, to aid the Police in cracking more crimes. Radical reforms through the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE)
Read More »Murdoch to buy New York rival
THE US publishing company Tribune has agreed in principle to sell the New York newspaper Newsday to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for about $US580 million ($616million). Under the terms of a deal, Newsday would
Read More »Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’
By Peter Swire | Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has badly stumbled in discussing the Bush administration’s push to create stricter identity systems. Chertoff was recently in Canada discussing, among other topics, the
Read More »MEPs to keep audit of wage abuse secret
By Sadie Gray | Members of the European Parliament have voted to keep secret an audit report the could reveal evidence of widespread abuse of staff wage allowances. The document exposes the huge end-of-year
Read More »DOD data: More forced to stay in Army
By Tom Vanden Brook | The Army has accelerated its policy of involuntary extensions of duty to bolster its troop levels, despite Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ order last year to limit it, Pentagon records show.
Read More »Government authority is crossing a line
By Raul Reyes | Last week, Eloisa Tamez, 73, lost the latest round in her ongoing fight with the U.S. government. A judge ordered her to let Washington survey her land near Brownsville, Texas.
Read More »Proposal to create EU-wide “troublemakers” database
Statewatch | To “prevent individuals or groups who are considered to pose a potential threat to the maintenance of public law and order and/or security from travelling to the location of the event”
Read More »Exit polls suggest Clinton win in Pennsylvania
By Ewen MacAskill and Suzanne Goldenberg | Hillary Clinton is expected to keep her slim hopes of the White House alive after exit polls suggested she would beat Barack Obama in the key Pennsylvania
Read More »PRISON SLAVERY ABOLITION UNITED FRONT PLATFORM
By by Lee Wood | This 2008 Abolitionist Plank is provisional. We humbly seek and request like-minded recommendations and participation. Tell us what additional structural, material conditions, and/or points you believe are necessary for
Read More »The Reality of the War on Drugs
Drug War Chronicle | With the Democratic Party presidential contenders offering little more than tepid reforms on the margin of drug policy and the Republican nominee largely promising more of the same old drug
Read More »Is It Impossible to Protect Your Privacy?
By Alexandra Marks | Individuals might treasure their personal data like Social Security and credit-card numbers, but identity thieves can buy them cheap and in bulk online. Credit-card numbers can now go for as little
Read More »VA confirms 18 vets attempt suicide every day
By Jason Leopold | VA Tried to Conceal Extent of Attempted Veteran Suicides, Email Shows. Top officials at the Veterans Administration tried to conceal information from the public about the sudden increase of attempted
Read More »eBay sues craigslist; cites dilution
By Larry Dignan | EBay said Tuesday that it is suing craigslist, Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster to “safeguard its four-year financial investment.” The auction giant bought a 28.4 percent stake in craigslist in
Read More »
