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Noam Chomsky on Marijuana
By John Veit - HIGH TIMES MAGAZINE | A hundred years from now, Avram Noam Chomsky is going to figure in the history books as the prime voice of conscience, dissent and reason in the
Read More »Howard accused of war crimes
ABC News | A legal brief has been sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging former prime minister John Howard committed a war crime by sending troops to Iraq. A loose alliance of
Read More »Australian police use national DNA data to solve crimes
Police in Australia’s state of New South Wales have begun using a national D-N-A database to help investigate unsolved crimes. The database matches evidence collected at crime scenes with criminal profiles to track down
Read More »New High In U.S. Prison Numbers
By N.C. Aizenman | More than one in 100 adults in the United States is in jail or prison, an all-time high that is costing state governments nearly $50 billion a year and the federal
Read More »In-flight surveillance in every seat
New Scientist | CCTV cameras are bringing more and more public places under surveillance – and passenger aircraft could be next. A prototype European system uses multiple cameras and “Big Brother” software to try
Read More »On Trial for Protesting a Weapons Maker
By Socialist Worker | Eamonn McCann is a founder of the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, a veteran socialist and trade unionist, and one of Ireland’s most widely read journalists. He is the
Read More »Iraq cites problems with US security pact
AP News | Iraq’s chief spokesman acknowledged differences with the United States over a proposed long-term security agreement and pledged on Sunday that the government will protect Iraqi sovereignty in ongoing talks with the
Read More »US Paying Allies to Fight War in Iraq
By Subodh Varma – TNN | NEW DELHI: The tale of massive fraud and embezzlement of millions of dollars by the US military in its operations in Iraq continues. Testifying before the US Congress
Read More »US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships
By Duncan Campbell and Richard Norton-Taylor | The United States is operating “floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an
Read More »Brown told detention is excessive and out of step
By Alan Travis and Patrick Wintour | Europe’s human rights commissioner is to write to Gordon Brown this week warning him that the proposal to detain terror suspects for up to 42 days without
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