Daily Archives: June 24, 2008 »
Fortress Britain
By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad | “The public has to be more alert”, warned one “international terrorism expert” in the Daily Mail late last year, because Scotland “is set to become another Israel within five
Read More »Report: Iraq social and refugee crisis is worsening
By Sandy English | According to a report issued last week by the human rights organization Amnesty International, the plight of nearly 5 million Iraqis displaced from their homes since the American invasion of
Read More »New technique can detect biological, chemical and explosive agents
By Steve Wampler | LIVERMORE, Calif. — Airplane passengers and baggage might be screened one day by a machine under development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) that can detect explosive, chemical and biological
Read More »American Envoy Is Linked to Arms Deal Cover-Up
By ERIC SCHMITT | WASHINGTON — An American ambassador helped cover up the illegal Chinese origins of ammunition that a Pentagon contractor bought to supply Afghan security forces, according to testimony gathered by Congressional investigators.
Read More »Big Oil’s Big Lie
By George Monbiot | Of course, it’s not a crime, and it’s hard to see how, in a free society, it could or should become one. But the culpability of the energy firms the
Read More »Mind-Forged Manacles
By George Monbiot | Which of these countries has the most prisoners per head of population? Sudan, Syria, China, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe or England and Wales? We win, or rather lose: I have
Read More »“Blood and Oil” an Important Film to See and Share
ADS | “Blood and Oil” is a very, very well made film that will show you something new even if you already know that – as Dubya admits – the United States is addicted
Read More »Blackwater, skirting federal law, using cache of AK-47s
By Joseph Neff | The private military company Blackwater has found an unusual way to skirt federal laws that prohibit private parties from buying automatic weapons. Blackwater bought 17 Romanian AK-47s and 17 Bushmasters,
Read More »Government Study Criticizes Bush Administration’s Measures of Progress in Iraq
By JAMES GLANZ, New York Times | Beyond the declines in overall violence in Iraq, several crucial measures the Bush administration uses to demonstrate economic, political and security progress are either incorrect or far more
Read More »Facing the Truth About the American Voter
Rick Shenkman, is the author of the just-published Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, 2008). He blogs at Howstupidblog and is editor of George Mason University’s
Read More »US to carry on military trials at Gitmo despite ruling
Hearings for terrorism suspects before US military tribunals in Guantanamo Bay are going ahead despite a Supreme Court ruling that affirmed the detainees have a right to challenge their detention in a civilian court.
Read More »ONE IN FOUR AMERICANS CALL THEIR WORKPLACE A DICTATORSHIP
Zogby | UTICA, New York – One out of every four working Americans (25%) describes their workplace as a dictatorship, while just 34% of bosses in the American workplace react well to valid criticism, according
Read More »Alternatives to Free Trade: Fair Trade and Beyond
By Shamus Cooke | The global debate around free-trade and its consequences has evolved tremendously in recent years, from tiny circles of leftist critics into a broad international protest movement. Although the movement began
Read More »The Real State of Iraq
By Juan Cole | American television loves natural disasters. The Burmese cyclones that may have carried off as many as 200,000 people offered the cameras high drama. The floods in Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri
Read More »Activists, Journalists Harassed Ahead Of EU Meeting
Radio Free Europe | Ahead of an EU-Turkmen meeting on human rights in Ashgabat, civic activists and independent journalists in the country have been reporting widespread harassment, intimidation, and even the detention of government
Read More »Government rejects calls for greater debate on data sharing
By Tom Young | The government has rejected a call from the Joint Human Rights Committee that any legislation that permits greater data sharing between Whitehall departments should be open to debate in parliament.
Read More »Are the telecoms paying to get amnesty for illegal acts?
the folks at maplight.org look at what lobbyists get for what contributions in Congress: On March 14 of this year the House passed an amendment that rejected retroactive immunity for phone carriers who helped
Read More »Richard Dowden: If the people want power, they must fight for it
While it was always a possibility that the Zimbabwean opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, would pull out of Friday’s second round of the presidential election, when I met him in Harare three weeks ago it
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