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Worldwide Support for Free Media
By Mick Meaney – RINF | A new major survey of world nations has found the majority of people support a free media and strongly object to government control on both traditional and Internet
Read More »Banksy throws London stencil party
By Raphael G. Satter | Graffiti impresario Banksy and airbrush-wielding guerrilla artists blanketed the walls of an abandoned London tunnel with offbeat murals as part of a three-day stencil-art street party this weekend.Banksy marshaled more
Read More »Nepal police detain 100 Tibetan protestors
AFP | More than 100 Tibetan exiles, mostly young monks and nuns, were detained Friday at a pro-Tibet protest in front of a Chinese embassy building in the Nepalese capital, police said. “More than
Read More »Ex-Guantanamo man: “Torture is terrorism”
By Opheera McDoom – KHARTOUM | Reuters – Al Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj returned home to Sudan on Friday after more than six years in the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay prison, urging Washington to respect
Read More »Why Gordon Brown should halt ID cards
Geraint Bevan | Government departments cannot be trusted to keep citizens’ personal data secure. It is not only in Italy that tax records are not as confidential as people might have expected. Treasury minister
Read More »Sex offender DNA files expanded
BBC | Police in Fife have become the first in Scotland to fully manage DNA samples from non-registered sex offenders. The force has started collecting swabs from people convicted before 1997 or who hold
Read More »Secret Bush “Finding” Widens War on Iran
By Andrew Cockburn | Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, “unprecedented in its scope.” Bush’s secret
Read More »Denying Palestinians Free Movement in the West Bank
By Stephen Lendman | RINF – This article summarizes an August 2007 B’Tselem report now available in print. It’s one of a series of studies it conducts on life in Occupied Palestine to reveal
Read More »RINF Forums Now Online
After a year long year hiatus due to security problems, the RINF Forums are back online and starting from scratch. Unfortunately the original database was damaged on our old server but now after rigorous software
Read More »Pentagon Documents Highlight Torture Methods
By Adam Goldman | New York – The military continued to use abusive interrogation methods on detainees after a 2003 directive meant to end such practices, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday after
Read More »Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history
CNN | A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public
Read More »Labour facing its worst losses in a generation
By Andrew Porter and James Kirkup | Gordon Brown is set for punishing losses in his first electoral test as Prime Minister after the Conservatives made key gains across the country. With more than
Read More »Leader: US spreading insecurity, terrorism
Press TV | The Leader of the Islamic Revolution has said that Iran’s armed forces are like a strong fortress that defends people’s security and tranquility. Addressing the armed forces commanders and officers in
Read More »US officials: Decision on confronting Iran up to Iraq
By Robert Burns | Iraqi leaders have been given the latest U.S. evidence of Iranian support for militias inside Iraq, and Baghdad will decide what to do about it, two senior Pentagon officials said
Read More »Five Years Since Mission Accomplished
It has been five years since the President declared victory in the battle for Iraq. Since that day, more than 3,900 American troops have been killed – bringing the total to more than 4,000.
Read More »British troops to stay in Basra ‘for the long term’
Richard Norton-Taylor – The Guardian | Britain will maintain a garrison of 4,000 troops at Basra airport for the forseeable future, whatever the pressures on the armed forces, defence officials said last night. They
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