Daily Archives: June 17, 2008 »
Now experts say cannabis should be legal
By David Maddox | CANNABIS should be legalised and taxed, an influential Scottish think tank recommended yesterday, just weeks after the Government hardened its attitude towards the drug, reclassifying it as a class B
Read More »Hacker Appeals To House Of Lords
By Christopher Nickson | A British hacker accused to accessing US military and Nasa computers has taken his case against extradition to the House of Lords, arguing it would breach his human rights. Gary McKinnon,
Read More »FBI interviews of Bush, Cheney subpoenaed
McClatchy-Tribune | A House committee subpoenaed yesterday records of the FBI’s interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer’s name. The Committee
Read More »Tougher terror laws actually enhance freedoms, claims Brown
By James Kirkup | The Prime Minister used a speech in London to defend his Government’s record on civil liberties in the light of last week’s Labour rebellion over the detention of terror suspects
Read More »Read the Government Report On Slavery and Iraq
Irregular Times | There is a report that was released by the U.S. State Department just at the end of last week, and it’s something that every American ought to take at least a
Read More »U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students
By David Gutierrez | A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags. The Middletown School District,
Read More »Why Are Corporate Journalists So Afraid of Questioning Authority?
By Scott Ritter | “I think the questions were asked. I think we pushed. I think we prodded. I think we challenged the president. I think not only those of us in the White House
Read More »The Boys in the Bubble
Via Blair Watch | Oh, the Good old Westminster bubble, the small enclosed world of Britain’s political class. We noticed that, almost unanimously they pronounced David Davis as a wild nutcase off on a
Read More »How many innocent people are going out of their minds today?
By George Monbiot | We shouldn’t be surprised to hear that George Bush dined with a group of historians on Sunday night. The president has spent much of his second term pleading with history. But
Read More »Ex-Pentagon Lawyers Face Inquiry on Interrogation Role
By MARK MAZZETTI | Senior Pentagon lawyers played a more active role than previously known in developing the aggressive interrogation techniques approved for use in 2002 at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, according
Read More »Bush threatens Iran with military action
By Colin Brown | George Bush has warned Iran that military action is still “on the table” if it fails to respond to tightening diplomatic pressure to abandon its nuclear weapons programme. The EU
Read More »Democrats to back down on Iraq war conditions
By Richard Cowan | Democrats in the Congress, who came to power last year on a call to end the combat in Iraq, will soon give President George W. Bush the last war-funding bill
Read More »Wrongly jailed detainees found militancy at Guantanamo
By Tom Lasseter | GARDEZ, Afghanistan — Mohammed Naim Farouq was a thug in the lawless Zormat district of eastern Afghanistan. He ran a kidnapping and extortion racket, and he controlled his turf with
Read More »LAW SCHOOL TO ORGANIZE BUSH WAR CRIMES TRIAL
By Sherwood Ross | A conference to plan the prosecution of President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes will be held September 13-14 at the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover
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