Daily Archives: July 22, 2008 »
Court Confirms President’s Dictatorial Powers
By Andy Worthington | Wake up, America! On July 15, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled by 5 votes to 4 in the case of Al-Marri v. Pucciarelli (PDF) that the
Read More »Judge Bars Evidence Against Terrorism Suspect at Guantanamo Trial
By Carol J. Williams | A military judge says some statements by Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a driver for Osama bin Laden, were made in ‘highly coercive’ settings. It could set a standard for other
Read More »Drilling Away at Poverty
On July 15, “an unlikely alliance” rallied in Washington DC to “stop the war on the poor” by increasing U.S. domestic oil and gas production. The rally was organized by the civil rights group
Read More »Secret Bluetooth surveillance study
By Adam Hartley | A controversial new study that uses Bluetooth technology to track UK citizens, without their knowledge, has come under fire from privacy campaigners. The Cityware study - has been set up
Read More »War Crimes Fugitive Radovan Karadzic Arrested in Serbia
Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted men, was arrested yesterday 13 years after he was first indicted by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal. The 63-year-old war crimes suspect faces genocide charges
Read More »Rice says Iran not serious at weekend nuke talks
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran on Monday of not being serious at weekend talks about its disputed nuclear program despite the presence of a senior U.S. diplomat, and warned it may soon
Read More »Breaking Iraq and Blaming Iran
By Andrew G. Marshall | In September of 2005, the southern Iraqi oil city of Basra, under British occupation since the 2003 invasion, was the scene of an extraordinarily controversial incident, which has since
Read More »Distortions, Falsehoods, Fabrications
monbiot.com | So here we go again. For the second time, Channel 4 has been fiercely criticised by the broadcasting regulator for a programme attacking environmental science. For the second time the director was Martin
Read More »Death of Free Internet – Canada Will Be Test Case
In the last 15 years or so, as a society we have had access to more information than ever before in modern history because of the Internet. There are approximately 1 billion Internet users
Read More »Documents show Md. law enforcement spied on protesters
By Nick Madigan | Undercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people thought
Read More »US forces kill son of top Iraqi official
US forces have killed the 17-year-old son of the governor of northern Iraq’s Salahuddin province. In a raid on Sunday, the forces shot the boy and another of the governor’s relatives. Governor Hamad al-Qaisi’s
Read More »Iraq eyes U.S. pullout by 2010 amid Obama visit
Xinhua | The Iraqi government said Monday that it hopes the U.S. combat troops would leave by 2010, raising a clear vision of time line after the two countries have agreed on a vague
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