Daily Archives: June 18, 2008 »
Lorry drivers to stage M62 fuel protest
By Jon Land | Police monitoring a proposed fuel protest by truckers on one of the UK’s busiest motorways said today their primary aim is to keep traffic flowing on the route. Organisers of
Read More »UK is world’s biggest arms dealer
ABC | Britain was the world’s biggest arms seller last year, accounting for a third of global arms exports, the Government’s trade promotion organisation said. UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) said British arms exporters
Read More »Doctors’ Report Finds Evidence of U.S. Torture and ‘War Crimes’
AP | Medical examinations of former terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious
Read More »World Governments Misleading and Failing Iraqi Refugees
Amnesty International | The international community is evading its responsibility towards refugees from Iraq by promoting a false picture of the security situation in Iraq when the country is neither safe nor suitable for return,
Read More »Bush’s “ownership society” hits the canvas
By Mike Whitney | The economy is in tatters. Consumer confidence has plummeted, food and energy prices are soaring, and the housing market is experiencing its biggest crash since the Great Depression. Manufacturing is
Read More »How powerful is the mass media?
Socialist Worker | Our rulers can’t fool all of the people all of the time, argues Sadie Robinson. The idea that the mass media controls our ideas is a very common one. According to
Read More »Zimbabwe Government Blocks Aid for Six Million In Need
By Ephraim Nsingo | Sixty-six year old Gogo Lethiwe Ncube gazes at a distant truck cruising towards the Avoca Shopping Centre in Insiza, Matabeleland South Province and starts smiling. “Why does that vehicle not
Read More »US spy base to be built in Western Australia
BY PHILIP DORLING | Australian defence support for United States military operations in the Middle East will be boosted by construction of a new top-secret US military communications base in Western Australia. Defence Minister
Read More »Pentagon: Shooting of Reuters journalist in Iraq justified
By LOLITA C. BALDOR | The 2005 shooting death of a Reuters journalist in the midst of a firefight in Baghdad was justified because U.S. soldiers believed the camera protruding from an unmarked car
Read More »V.A. Using Iraq Vets as Guinea Pigs in Drug Tests
By Greg Mitchell | As if the “soldier suicide” problem wasn’t bad enough already, word has just emerged from ABC News and The Washington Times that our government is testing drugs with severe side
Read More »‘Random’ searches of passengers on Metrolink
LA Times | Random searches of passengers and their belongings will begin next week on Metrolink commuter trains, the agency announced Thursday. Passengers got the news via a flier left on train seats. Sheriff’s
Read More »Police attack anti-Bush protestors
By Stewart Office | The ban on the demonstration down Whitehall to protest the visit of war criminal George Bush was enforced with violence by the Metropolitan police. Two protestors were hospitalised by baton
Read More »Senate probes Pentagon-Guantanamo contacts
It is no secret that American military personnel at Guantanamo Bay and other US-run prisons have stripped detainees naked, used dogs to scare them, hooded them, and deprived them of sleep. But an 18-month-long
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