• Students Denied Legal Aid

  SchNews | Reckon students are all bone-idle skiving filth who haven’t even got the wit to tie their shoelaces properly?...

   

• Over 60% of People Do Not Trust the Government

  

  May 26, 2008 23:19

  By Mick Meaney – RINF Breaking News | A poll conducted by the World Public Opinion (WPO) has found that over 60%...

   

• Lorry drivers to shut down London roads in protest

  

  May 26, 2008 21:32

  Lorry drivers are to pour into London tomorrow for what organisers hope will be the largest-ever fuel duty protest in the...

   

• Tories pledge to curb use of CCTV cameras

  By James Kirkup | Mr Davis told the Society of Conservative Lawyers that the widespread use of closed circuit television...

   

• Path Intelligence – Phorm for shopping centres?

  Spy Blog | Just in case you thought that Phorm was the only threat to your privacy, here is an example of similar “no...

   

• Concerns grow over snooping watchdog

  By Michael Peel | Britain may have sleepwalked into a surveillance society, but you would not know that from the watchdog...

   

• ‘We Are Stuck’ With Guantanamo, Gates Says

  Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who last year said he would look for ways to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison,...

   

• Indictment and Trial of Bush and Cheney

  By David Swanson | Remarks made on May 24, 2008, in Radford, Va., at the Building a New World Conference: http://www.wpaconference.org....

   

• The War on Drugs – ’30 Years of Failure’

  Radley Balko | HBO’s critically acclaimed drama The Wire wrapped up its final season in March. The show has been widely...

   

• Indymedia Responds to SHIfT article

  Indymedia | Before turning to the article, it is worth noting that the issue’s Editorial makes similar allegations...

   

• US: Respect Rights of Child Detainees in Iraq

  Human Rights Watch | US forces in Iraq should ensure that children it takes into custody are treated according to their status...

   

• Monbiot plans citizen’s arrest of John Bolton

  

  May 26, 2008 20:33

  By George Monbiot | We have all but forgotten the war with Iraq. We tend to see it now as little more than a “political...

   

• Oil: A global crisis

  The Iraq War means oil costs three times more than it should, says a leading expert. How are our lives going to change as...

   

• Reasons for Starting Your Own Garden

  NaturalNews | The Season of Spring is lavish with its abundance. Before we even ask, nature blesses us with every shade of...

   

• Mass Funding For War While There’s Poverty At Home

  By Paul Craig Roberts | The US Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush’s wars of aggression against Afghanistan and...

   

• TV News Stresses Strategy, Downplays Issues

  TV news coverage of the presidential primaries has focused on campaign strategy rather than candidates’ stands on issues,...

   

• ‘Ayatollah will not allow US-Iraq deal’

  Press TV | Iraq’s most revered Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has strongly objected to a ‘security...

   

• US residents in military brigs? Govt says it’s war

  By MATT APUZZO | If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained...

   

• Indymedia and Anti-Semitism

  Shift Magazine | For many of us a visit to Indymedia UK is a frustrating experience. Its open publishing newswire reveals...

   

• All War All The Time

  By Sam Smith | As it tries to recover from the most expensive failure in American military history, the Pentagon has its...

   

• Gordon Brown faces ‘quit now’ calls as Labour MPs panic

  By Philip Webster | Gordon Brown was facing public and private pressure to consider quitting for the sake of his party last...

   

• 100 arrested in Indonesia over fuel protest

  AFP | Police arrested more than 100 protesters in the Indonesian capital Saturday after some burnt tyres and threw molotov...

   

• Time to bin ID cards? Calls for Brown to “bite the bullet”

  By Nick Heath | The government is facing calls to cancel its ID card scheme after it announced that all of the five remaining...

   

• London bus drivers to get DNA ‘spit kits’

  

  May 24, 2008 9:48

  London’s bus drivers who are spat at will be able to collect the saliva in a DNA ‘spit kit’ so the assailant can be...

   

• McCain’s Plan – Millions Will Lose Insurance Coverage

  By Jo Hartley | Americans need to be aware of what Senator John McCain’s health care plan entails. Under the guise...