• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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,...

   

• The Bush team’s Geneva hypocrisy

  Newly released U.S. government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva...

   

• 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...

   

• 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....

   

• Investigators: Millions in Iraq contracts never finished

  AP | Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• Vote fraud threatens to wreak chaos on London

  

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  By Jill Sherman | The electoral system is close to breaking point and the mayoral and local elections on Thursday are vulnerable...

   

• Blair thought Brown a liar, says Levy

  By Patrick Wintour | The foreign secretary, David Miliband, warned yesterday that disloyalty to the prime minister would...

   

• Insects using plants as telephones

  By Roland Piquepaille | A team of Dutch ecologists has found that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects use plants...

   

• Pentagon cuts ties with mouthpieces

  The Pentagon has temporarily stopped feeding information to pundits who generate ‘favorable’ war coverage for...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• ‘Western Leaders Are War Criminals’

  By Mick Meaney – RINF | The former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, has echoed calls for Western leaders...

   

• Democracy supporters arrested in Zimbabwe

  UPI | Riot police in the capital of Zimbabwe have arrested nearly 400 supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change, a...

   

• Bush’s disapproval worst of any president in 70 years

  By Susan Page | President Bush has set a record he’d presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of...