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9/11 Cultwatch To Speak At Anarchist Studies Network Conference
This September Loughborough University hosts the Anarchist Studies Network conference. Joining in the debates and discussions, to be held between Thursday 4th and Saturday 6th September, will be 9/11 Cultwatch’s Larry O’Hara and Paul
Read More »Supreme Court, Inc.: Supremely Pro-Business
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Pro-business Supreme Court rulings are nothing new, and it’s likely most damaging one ever occurred in 1886. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railway, the High Court granted
Read More »G8 leaders condemn us to poverty
By Sadie Robinson | An enormous economic crisis is gripping the world. In the Global South millions of people are being reduced to levels barely above starvation, as rising food and fuel prices help
Read More »Planet Burns While G8 Fiddles
By Ramesh Jaura | While the world’s major industrialised nations expressed satisfaction over their three-day summit meetings that concluded Wednesday, non-governmental organisations, after some early and limited approval, were deeply disappointed with the outcome
Read More »Spin Doctor Behind Davis’ Campaign Promotes ID Cards
By Andy Rowell and Michael Gillard | A spin doctor behind David Davis and his much-vaunted “freedom” campaign against creeping state surveillance is an influential figure in the worldwide promotion of identity cards. Kevin
Read More »9/11 suspect to defend self at Guantanamo trial
AP News | A Guantanamo prisoner accused in the Sept. 11 attacks complained Wednesday that his confinement and obstructions by the U.S. military are complicating his court-approved effort to serve as his own lawyer.
Read More »Security firms lose immunity in Iraq deal
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad | The Iraqi armed services are likely to target widely-hated American security contractors when they lose their immunity to Iraqi law under a new agreement between the US and
Read More »The coverup of surveillance crimes and Barack Obama
What we learned in December, 2005 that George Bush and the telecoms were doing — listening in on the private conversations of American citizens without warrants — is a felony under clear U.S. law,
Read More »Iraq toughens stance on U.S. troop withdrawal
chinaview.cn | Iraq’s stance in negotiations with the U.S. over the country’s security has been getting tougher, a trend obviously seen when a Iraqi security officer demanded a definite deadline of U.S. troops’ withdrawal.
Read More »Laptops Lost Like Hot Cakes at US Airports
By Agam Shah | Keep laptops close at airports, because they have a startling tendency to disappear in the blink of an eye, according to a new survey. Some of the largest and medium-sized
Read More »Senate Passes Unconstitutional Spying Bill And Grants Sweeping Immunity To Phone Companies
Today, in a blatant assault upon civil liberties and the right to privacy, the Senate passed an unconstitutional domestic spying bill that violates the Fourth Amendment and eliminates any meaningful role for judicial oversight
Read More »It’s the Oil, stupid!
By Noam Chomsky | The deal just taking shape between Iraq’s Oil Ministry and four Western oil companies raises critical questions about the nature of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq — questions
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