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Amnesty accuses Moz police of torture
AFP | Police in Mozambique are killing and torturing people with near total impunity, according to a report by Amnesty International released on Tuesday. “Police in Mozambique seem to think they have a licence to
Read More »Increasing use of council surveillance powers
Surveillance powers which allow local authorities to follow people and access their phone records have been used by Northamptonshire County Council 10 times in the past year. Legislation brought in by the Regulation
Read More »Green Scare State Terrorism
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | In May 2005, FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism John Lewis told a Senate panel that ecoterrorism is “one of today’s most serious domestic terrorism threats.” Then the
Read More »Lawmaker Threatens Subpoenas for Aides
By Carrie Johnson | The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee threatened yesterday to subpoena Bush administration officials who have refused to appear at a hearing on torture and interrogation policies. Rep. John Conyers Jr.
Read More »New CSI Tool Analyzes Antibodies
AP | Federal researchers say they’ve developed a human identification test that’s faster and possibly cheaper than DNA testing. It would be a handy new weapon in the arsenal for detectives, forensic experts and the
Read More »U.S. reveals way to get off terror list
UPI | The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a way for people who don’t belong on terrorist watch lists to be spared extra scrutiny at the airport. Under the new program, tens of
Read More »Corporate America
By Chris Hedges | The corporate state is our shadow government. Candidates who aspire to higher office get corporate money if they promote corporate interests. They are shut out of the national debate—look at Dennis
Read More »Iraq mass graves yield 100 bodies
Reuters | Iraqi security forces have found more than 100 bodies in two mass graves, military officials said on Sunday. Fifty bodies were found in a mass grave in central Iraq on Sunday, a
Read More »Iraqi political leaders protest U.S. siege of Sadr City
By Hussein Kadhim and Raviya H. Ismail | About 50 leaders representing a variety of Iraqi political blocs took to Baghdad’s Sadr City on Sunday, a stronghold of fiery religious leader Muqtada al Sadr,
Read More »Top brands in OFT price-fixing probe
By James Hall and Richard Fletcher | About 100 leading household brands, including PG Tips, Coca-Cola and Aquafresh, are at the centre of an investigation into allegations of price-fixing, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. They
Read More »Ominous Signs That White House Wants More Wars
By Jim Lobe | Are the latest accusations and tough language leveled against Iran, Syria, and North Korea evidence of a resurgence by the remaining hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush hoping
Read More »Brown wants tougher policy on cannabis
By Alan Travis | Gordon Brown’s decision to overturn the advice of his own group of drug experts by pressing ahead with a tougher policy on cannabis could face a high court challenge from campaigners.
Read More »MI5 accused of colluding in torture of terrorist suspects
By Ian Cobain | Officers of the Security Service, MI5, are being accused of “outsourcing” the torture of British citizens to a notorious Pakistani intelligence agency in an attempt to obtain information about terrorist
Read More »Wolfowitz: ‘The Occupation Of Iraq Ended In June 2004′
ThinkProgress | At a Hudson Institute event today, Iraq war architects Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith, as well as Dan Senor and Peter Rodman, reconvened to celebrate Feith’s new book, War and Decision, which
Read More »What the world thinks of Bush and his war
After Downing Street | To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt ten-fold, to kill a hundred men is to increase
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