Daily Archives: May 28, 2008 »
Amnesty urges next US president to ban torture
AFP | Rights watchdog Amnesty International yesterday urged the next US president to close the “war on terror” prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, ban all forms of torture and stop propping authoritarian regimes. In
Read More »Ireland accused of failing on flight rendition
RTÉ News | US assurances that Irish airports are not being used for rendition are not worth the paper they are written on, according to the Secretary General of Amnesty International.Speaking to RTÉ News on
Read More »Brown: To Be More Than an Accessory to War Crimes
By Tariq Ali | Power can shape “truth”, but not for ever. That is one lesson that could be learned from the series of electoral defeats that mark the end of New Labour’s weightless hegemony.
Read More »UK ready to scrap killer cluster bombs
By Richard Norton-Taylor | The government is preparing to scrap Britain’s entire arsenal of cluster bombs in the face of a growing clamour against weapons that have killed and maimed hundreds of innocent civilians. Officials
Read More »Iraq War May Have Increased Energy Costs by $6 Trillion
By Geoffrey Lean | The invasion of Iraq by Britain and the US has trebled the price of oil, according to a leading expert, costing the world a staggering $6 trillion in higher energy
Read More »A Real Inside Job; Anthrax
After Downing Street | Someone just pointed this out to me. FBI claims to be continuing anthrax investigation. They’ve narrowed it to “about four” suspects and “at least three” of them are from Fort
Read More »Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing?
By Daniel Taylor | “…just by walking down the street you could be subject to a personal biometric system, you could be scanned by the gateway of the transit system, there could be something
Read More »Appeal from Tony Benn / Stop the War Coalition
By Tony Benn | The destruction of Iraq continues; its people killed amidst bombings and atrocities, a million or more dead, many more than two million driven from their homes, the social and economic
Read More »American Psychological Association Supports Torture
By Stephen Soldz | Since 2005, the American Psychological Association (APA) has steadfastly asserted that psychologists participating in detainee interrogations protects detainees by helping to keep these interrogations “safe, legal, ethical, and effective.” Last
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