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US torture claims are unreliable: British lawmakers
The British government should no longer accept US assurances that it does not use torture, a parliamentary oversight committee said on Sunday in a wide-ranging report looking at London’s human rights policy. Ministers
Read More »Guantánamo children
The Guardian | In a submission to the UN in May, the Pentagon said that no more than eight youths, aged 13 to 17 at time of capture, were held at Guantánamo Bay. But a
Read More »ID cards – compulsory or not?
By David Meyer | It’s not going to be compulsory to carry around ID cards. Honestly. So said Stephen Harrison, policy director at the ID & Passport Service, when asked today at the Westminster eForum
Read More »Eulogy For The “Ownership Society”
By Mike Whitney | The Fed’s emergency rescue plan for the financial markets is hopelessly flawed. It’s a scattershot approach that doesn’t address the real source of the problem; an unregulated, unsustainable structured finance
Read More »Reporter Arrested For Trying To Crash Bohemian Grove
Vanity Fair writer Alex Shoumatoff got himself arrested for crashing Bohemian Grove, a private men’s club in northern California for the upper echelon of the rich and powerful. He was there to spy on
Read More »The Absurd and Destructive War on Terror
I was injured thanks to the government’s ridiculous airport security program last week on a US Air flight from Chicago to Philadelphia. I also saw how pointless the whole thing is, if the supposed
Read More »The US will not prosecute Bush
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld will never be tried for war crimes in the US because the country lacks a consensus on torture The US will not prosecute Bush By John McQuaid, guardian.co.uk The evidence
Read More »Rice: US still puts conditions on talks with Iran
AP News | Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the United States still has conditions for negotiating with Iran even though the Bush administration is sending a senior diplomat to weekend talks
Read More »Antiwar Protesters Added to Database of Terrorist Suspects
Undercover Maryland state troopers infiltrated three groups advocating peace and protesting the death penalty — attending meetings and sending reports on their activities to U.S. intelligence and military agencies, according to documents released Thursday.
Read More »Channel 4 to be censured over controversial climate film
Watchdog finds documentary was unfair to scientists but did not mislead viewers Owen Gibson, media correspondent, The Guardian The former chief scientist Sir David King and the IPCC complained about Channel 4’s film The
Read More »PM refuses Iraq troops timetable
Gordon Brown has said he favours reducing troop numbers in Iraq but would not set an “artificial timetable” during talks with Iraqi leaders. The prime minister also met senior US officials during a surprise
Read More »Bush can hold terrorist suspect indefinitely: US court
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that President George W. Bush has the power to keep a terrorist suspect jailed indefinitely, but that the detainee has the right to challenge his detention as
Read More »Judge rejects attempt to block Guantanamo trial
A U.S. military judge has rejected another attempt to halt the first Guantanamo war crimes trial. The Navy judge’s ruling comes as a civilian judge in Washington considers a separate bid to stop the
Read More »Ashcroft defends waterboarding before House panel
The controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding has served a “valuable” purpose and does not constitute torture, former Attorney General John Ashcroft told a House committee Thursday. Testifying on the Bush administration’s interrogation rules before
Read More »U.S. House passes CIA contractor ban over veto vow
U.S. lawmakers defied a White House veto threat on Wednesday and voted to bar CIA contractors from interrogating suspected terrorists, in the latest clash over detainee treatment in the U.S.-declared war on terrorism. The
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