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Global protest over arrest of Japanese whale activists
Greenpeace | International — Global protest continues to mount with protests and vigils in front of Japanese embassies around the world and more than 180,000 letters being sent to the Japanese government demanding the release
Read More »UN expert urges U.S. to take steps to avoid unlawful killings
Xinhua | UN human rights expert Philip Alston on Monday called on the United States to take immediate steps to improve its system of military justice and to ensure that the death penalty is
Read More »Ex-Abu Ghraib prisoners sue US contractors, claim torture
Yahoo | Four Iraqis announced Monday in Istanbul they are suing two US firms and their employees for allegedly torturing them at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Bagdad five years ago Their lawsuit
Read More »ID scheme: the truths, half-truths and deceptions
By Geraint Bevan | THE organisation NO2ID will not be represented officially inside the Home Office’s secretive ID consultation at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel in Edinburgh today. Despite repeated requests, officials have decided that
Read More »Nine held in ID card demo
NINE protesters were arrested in Edinburgh yesterday following a demonstration at government plans to introduce ID cards. The arrests, all in connection with breach of the peace offences, were made at the Barcelo Carlton
Read More »MEP Tries to Certify Bloggers
Via Blairwatch | We earlier reported an initiative about the EU certifying bloggers. EU Observer has an interesting report about the outcry from this, correctly noting that this is just a proposal at the
Read More »Pretending That Bush is Not a Tyrant
Consortium News | All over the world down through history, political leaders who have engaged in torture and other grotesque crimes of state have justified their actions as necessary to protect their governments or their
Read More »Brussels To Sign Away Your Private Details To US
The Times | American authorities will be able to obtain greater access to private information such as credit card transactions, internet browsing habits and travel histories of people in Britain under a deal being
Read More »How the “Dear Leader” Blackmailed Bush
By Mike Whitney | After seven years of nonstop belligerence and saber rattling, the Bush administration has given North Korea everything it has demanded. In return, the US gets nothing. The UN’s nuclear watchdog,
Read More »Is Britain moving to the right?
Socialist Review | It’s hard to remember that only nine months ago 1 May was projected as a likely general election day. Then, the theory went, Gordon Brown would be able to take Labour to
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