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UK must pursue war crimes investigations
Amnesty International UK today expressed disappointment that despite six months of investigation, the United Kingdom authorities have not been able to amass sufficient evidence to determine whether it is possible to mount a successful
Read More »Bush Administration Sued for Allowing Use of Pesticides
By Jo Hartley | Environmental and farm worker groups have now sued the Bush administration for allowing the continued use of four pesticides. They claim that the government brushed aside its own evidence that
Read More »Heckler at the Back
SchNews | Campaigners in Nottingham have the world’s second largest seller of small-arms, Heckler and Koch, firmly in their sights. One would have thought that a city infamous for its gun crime would be a
Read More »Outrage in UK over staff blacklisting database
By Niall Byrne | Last week the announcement that several UK retailers were collaborating on compiling a database of employees dismissed over suspicion of theft or fraud caused furore amongst the public, trade unions
Read More »Blackwater back to Iraq
Outrage over the killings prompted the Iraqi government to demand Blackwater’s ouster from the country. But after an intense public and private lobbying campaign, Blackwater appears to be back to business as usual. The
Read More »First US aid plane lands in Burma
BBC News | The first US aid flight to Burma following the devastating cyclone nine days ago has landed in Rangoon after a journey from an air base in Thailand. Permission for the aircraft
Read More »Planets by the Dozen
By Dr. Tony Phillips | You know the planets of our solar system, each a unique world with its own distinctive appearance, size, and chemistry. Mars, with its bitter-cold, rusty red sands; Venus, a
Read More »Spy Chief Presents New Peace Plan
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani | Palestinian resistance factions signed on to an Egyptian ceasefire proposal last month aimed at bringing a measure of calm to the hapless Gaza Strip. In a
Read More »Soldiers need loans to eat, report reveals
By Jonathan Owen and Brian Brady | A highly sensitive internal report into the state of the British Army has revealed that many soldiers are living in poverty. Some are so poor that they
Read More »The Prosecution of George W. Bush
By Vincent Bugliosi | There is direct evidence that President George W. Bush did not honorably lead this nation, but deliberately misled it into a war he wanted. Bush and his administration knowingly lied
Read More »The Lucrative Art of War
New York Times | Congress is finally moving to shut one of the more egregious forms of Iraq war profiteering: defense contractors using offshore shell companies to avoid paying their fair share of payroll taxes.
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