Daily Archives: April 28, 2008 »
The Bush team’s Geneva hypocrisy
Newly released U.S. government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Conventions’ protections of war captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed
Read More »US air force calls for mission to combat climate change
By David Adam | The US air force will this week call for the world’s top scientists to come together in a 21st-century Apollo-style programme to develop greener fuels and tackle global warming. It wants
Read More »A Million Palestinians Threatened with Starvation
The Israelis already have the Gaza Strip under military siege, carefully controlling what and who goes in and out of it. They have now cut off most fuel, and the United Nations has been
Read More »Investigators: Millions in Iraq contracts never finished
AP | Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the U.S. government
Read More »Bush Administration Policies Making Work Less Safe
By Leo W. Gerard | In the heart of Pennsylvania, while the media still relentlessly plagued Senators Obama and Clinton about flag pins and memory lapses just before the primary, a machine at an
Read More »Use of Secret Spy Law is Widespread
By Michael Howie | NEW spy laws are being used by Scottish councils to track people suspected of housing-benefit fraud, selling cigarettes to children and environmental-health offences. Campaigners are now calling for a “root-and-branch
Read More »The NSA, personal data and you
By Mitch Ratcliffe | Here’s a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don’t build the systems for monitoring people’s daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be
Read More »Facial recognition is same as tossing coin
By Geraint Bevan - NO2ID | After all the rhetoric about securing our borders, the Home Office has now announced its intent significantly to weaken passport control in the UK. Starting this summer, border guards will
Read More »The Sick Science Tobacco Companies Pursue
By Scott Thill | Those who complain about how the internet or advances in technology haven’t done enough to make us smarter or better may not truly remember what life was like before either.
Read More »Vote fraud threatens to wreak chaos on London
By Jill Sherman | The electoral system is close to breaking point and the mayoral and local elections on Thursday are vulnerable to large-scale fraud, Gordon Brown is warned today. Efforts to improve turnout
Read More »Blair thought Brown a liar, says Levy
By Patrick Wintour | The foreign secretary, David Miliband, warned yesterday that disloyalty to the prime minister would be fatal after a former Labour party fundraiser claimed that Tony Blair regarded Gordon Brown as a
Read More »Insects using plants as telephones
By Roland Piquepaille | A team of Dutch ecologists has found that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects use plants to communicate. ‘Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way,
Read More »Pentagon cuts ties with mouthpieces
The Pentagon has temporarily stopped feeding information to pundits who generate ‘favorable’ war coverage for the Bush administration. According to The New York Times, the Defense Department had been giving information to retired military
Read More »CIA torture given legal cover, newspaper says
Reuters | Recent letters from the U.S. Justice Department to Congress state that intelligence agents working on counterterrorism can legally use interrogation techniques that might otherwise be banned by international law, The New York
Read More »Emails suggest cover-up of Vets suicide rate
By Naomi Spencer | Internal emails from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) turned over to a federal district court in San Francisco this week reveal that the agency’s mental health unit saw a staggering
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