Daily Archives: June 14, 2008 »
The Surveillance Society report: DNA discussions
By Anthony Hildebrand | The report recognises the National DNA Database as a “valuable investigative tool, particularly in relation to police efforts to solve older cases” “But the sensitive nature of the information which
Read More »Are we losing our civil liberties?
SARAH HALL | New controversial legislation could now be put in place which means anyone suspected of being involved in terrorism can be held without charge for 42 days. And with the government’s apparent determination
Read More »Commons report: British “surveillance society”
QAS | The Commons’ home affairs committee has submitted a report warning of the danger of Britain becoming a surveillance society. The report calls on the government to promise the proposed ID card scheme
Read More »Our Government’s Dirty Little Secrets
By George Galloway | A Government ready to rely on those friends of liberty, the Democratic Unionist party, to shred the liberties of our own people are almost by definition unembarrassable, but I hope
Read More »Change, What Change?
CounterPunch | On Tuesday June 3 Barack Obama claimed the greatest prize the Democratic Party can offer, namely his nomination as its candidate for the presidency. The very next day the salesman of “change”
Read More »Can Technology Improve Your Memory?
By Laura Weldon | You have everything you need to keep you informed. Technology provides you with answers to almost any question instantly. If you need reminders, you can program devices to prompt you
Read More »It’s Conyers’s Time to Act on Impeachment
Dennis Kucinich is saying exactly what you were saying before you became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Now you have the power. Use it. To hell with Pelosi and Hoyer. By Matthew Rothschild
Read More »Detention Camp Remains, but Not Its Rationale
By WILLIAM GLABERSON | The Guantánamo Bay detention center will not close today or any day soon. But the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday stripped away the legal premise for the remote prison camp that officials
Read More »High Court: Gitmo Detainees Have Rights in Court
By MARK SHERMAN | The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. The justices handed the
Read More »Democracy in the EU Institutions
Blair Watch | There is much debate over the Irish rejection of the Lisbon treaty, but what I’m finding interesting is how a democratic decision by an electorate is regarded in the EU institutions.
Read More »Mobile Phone Number Moving Caused Feds to Wiretap Wrong American
By Ryan Singel | In poring through the latest round of documents the FBI turned over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation about how the FBI legally plugs into the nation’s telephone system, THREAT LEVEL discovered that
Read More »Iraqi PM: Security deal with U.S. at ‘dead end’
MSNBC | AMMAN, Jordan – Talks with the United States on a new long-term security pact have reached a “dead end” because of U.S. demands that infringed Iraq’s sovereignty, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
Read More »Bush Pledges on Iraq Bases Pact Were a Ruse
By Gareth Porter - Inter Press Service | WASHINGTON – Two key pledges made by the George W. Bush administration on military bases in its negotiations with the government of Iraq have now been revealed
Read More »A New Kind Of Corporate Slavery
Corporations are getting rich using federal prisoners as captive labor pools. By Betty Brink | Unless she’s dying or recovering from surgery, a patient at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell must work. The hospital out
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