Daily Archives: July 2, 2008 »
Top airline bosses launch assault on airport ID card plan
By John Lettice | The bosses of the UK’s major airlines have attacked plans to force airport workers to enrol in the national ID card scheme, claiming that “the UK aviation industry is being
Read More »UK government fined for violation of right to privacy
THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights has ordered the British government to pay €7,500 in costs and expenses to the UK human rights organisation Liberty for violating its right to privacy by intercepting its
Read More »Videos of Violent Police Training Appear as Mexico Awaits U.S. Aid
By Manuel Roig-Franzia | Videos showing Mexican police learning torture methods appeared on the Internet this week as the country, soon to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. anti-drug aid, is seeking to
Read More »Want to know if waterboarding is torture? Ask Christopher Hitchens
By Jon Henley | Late last year, the writer, polemicist and fierce proponent of the US-led invasion of Iraq Christopher Hitchens attempted, in a piece for the online magazine Slate, to draw a distinction
Read More »The Shrinking Influence of the US Federal Reserve
Humiliation for Mr. Dollar: Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Bank, faces a general investigation by the International Monetary Fund. Just one more example of the Fed losing its power.
Read More »GLOBAL STUDY SHOWS THAT DRUG PROHIBITION IS A FAILURE
By Steve Higgins | According to a new survey the USA has highest level of illegal cocaine and cannabis use in the world. Thank goodness the War for Drugs is working so well! Ohh…
Read More »US advisers steered Iraqi oil contracts to Western firms
By Bill Van Auken | As the Iraqi regime formally opened the bidding for foreign oil companies to resume exploitation of the country’s oil wealth, it was revealed that US “advisers” played the leading
Read More »One million lose out in NHS dental reforms
By Rebecca Smith | Instead of improving access to NHS dentistry the reforms have made it worse, the report by the House of Commons Health Select Committee found. The number of dentists working in
Read More »From triumph to torture: John Pilger on Mohammed Omer’s treatment by Israel
By John Pilger | Two weeks ago, I presented a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Awarded in memory of the great US war correspondent, the prize goes
Read More »Ex-Agent Says CIA Ignored Iran Facts
By Joby Warrick | A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended
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