Daily Archives: May 19, 2008 »
CIA death squads killing with “impunity” in Afghanistan
By Joe Kay | A United Nations investigator released a preliminary report last week citing widespread civilian deaths in Afghanistan, often at the hands of unaccountable units led by the CIA or other foreign
Read More »Why should we pay the Orwellian licence fee?
By Patrick West | Some government public information services or advertisements on behalf of state services never change. Drink-driving awareness adverts invariably feature a before-and-after narrative, beginning with people shown having a merry old
Read More »Firms await verdict on £2 billion ID cards project
The Independent | The technology industry will next week learn who the Government has awarded contracts to supply the £2bn biometric identity card programme, the last and among the most secretive of the recent
Read More »I was tortured to confess, Pervez tells appeal court
By Kim Sengupta | Pervez Kambaksh, the Afghan student sentenced to death after being accused of downloading internet reports on women’s rights, yesterday pleaded innocent to charges of blasphemy. He told an appeal court
Read More »Iran busts CIA terror network
Tehran Times – TEHRAN | The Intelligence Ministry on Saturday released details of the detection and dismantling of a terrorist network affiliated to the United States. In a coordinated operation on May 7, Iranian intelligence
Read More »Propaganda and the media
By Joseph L. Galloway | Once upon a time, it was widely believed that one of the greatest sins the U.S. government or its temporary political masters could commit was to turn a propaganda
Read More »Cluster Bomb Ban Opposed by US, China, Russia
By Nick Cumming-Bruce – GENEVA | Believe the advocates of a treaty banning cluster munitions, and the international community is about to take a decisive step toward curbing the use of a weapon that inflicts
Read More »Is the Creative Internet Just About Dead?
By Annalee Newitz | A couple of weeks ago I went to the annual Maker Faire in San Mateo, an event where people from all over the world gather for a giant DIY technology show-and-tell
Read More »Hybrid embryos ‘should be banned’
BBC News | Allowing scientists to carry out stem cell research using hybrid human-animal embryos “is a step too far and should be banned”, the Commons has been told. Senior Tory MP Edward Leigh
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