Monthly Archives: August 2008 »
Ron Paul Kicks Off Campaign for Liberty
By Barbara L. Minton | Remember Ron Paul, the candidate who annoyed reporters, the left and the right by trying to talk about the real issues facing Americans during the presidential contender’s debate? Although
Read More »Chomsky: Britain Failed To Stop US Shameful Acts
Britain has failed in its duty to stop the US from committing “shameful acts” in the treatment of suspects detained during the war on terror, one of America’s most respected intellectuals Noam Chomsky warns.
Read More »Labour proposes huge increase in state surveillance
World Socialist Website | In a further escalation of the attack on democratic rights, the Labour government is proposing a huge increase in state surveillance. It is implementing new measures under the pretext of the
Read More »SchNEWS DRILLS FOR THE TRUTH IN PEAK OIL THEORY
SchNEWS | From Transition Town workshops to the city slickers at the Financial Times (to over-excited pieces in ill-researched journals like SchNEWS), there’s been more and more interest in ‘Peak Oil’. Perhaps it’s got
Read More »Bush Seeks to Affirm a Continuing War on Terror
By ERIC LICHTBLAU | WASHINGTON — Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush’s
Read More »Protesters denied access to attorneys, forced to march in leg shackles, ACLU charges
By John Byrne | The ACLU issued a stinging rebuke to the Denver Police Department Wednesday, alleging that the department may have violated laws and constitutional rights of protesters arrested outside the Democratic National
Read More »POLITICS DRIVEN BY FICTION: MADE FOR TV
By Sam Smith | The confluence of Barack Obama’s stadium acceptance extravaganza and John McCain’s pick for vice president offers superfluous but final proof that Americans have been consigned to spend their lives as
Read More »Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes
By Bruce Schneier | Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, has finally admitted that a ten-year-old error has caused votes to be dropped. It’s unclear if this error is random or systematic.
Read More »Blair has no right to lecture on the rule of law
By Inayat Bunglawala | Britain’s foreign secretary, David Miliband, has been lecturing Russia on the need to respect Ukrainian and Georgian sovereignty. He doesn’t seem to realise how incongruous this sounds to much of
Read More »3,000 Vets, War Protesters Hand-Deliver Their Message
By Patti Thorn | DNEVER – “Follow Us. Welcome to Denver,” read the electronic sign on the police vehicle. And with that conciliatory gesture, an unpermitted march for peace was allowed to proceed Wednesday
Read More »VIDEO: Climate Camp 2008
Undercurrents in association with VisionOnTV reported the people who are making a differenece by working together collectively. When large numbers of determined and well-organised people get together they can turn things around, making a
Read More »Conspiracy Files: Lockerbie
By Paul Stott | Few terrorist attacks have had such contrary explanations as the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. Sunday evening at 9pm the BBC2′s Conspiracy Files enters the fray,
Read More »A UK Window into CIA Abuses
Human Rights Watch | This Wednesday, unless the UK foreign secretary takes rapid action, Britain’s High Court will hold a hearing to assess whether the UK government should be ordered to hand over secret documents
Read More »More People are Catching on to Corporate Media Lies
By Michael Cambray | It seems that most people are finally awakening to the fact that it is not a good idea to blindly accept the manipulating lies with which we are daily brainwashed,
Read More »Bisphenol A Chemical in Plastic Bottles Harms Children, Feds Conclude
By David Gutierrez | For the first time, a branch of the U.S. government has admitted that the common industrial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) may pose a health risk. BPA is a crucial ingredient in
Read More »US out of Iraq by … “2011″
By PATRICK COCKBURN | The United States is moving towards ending its military control of Iraq by agreeing to withdraw combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns by June next year and from the
Read More »‘MI6 & Weapons of Mass Destruction’
By Larry O’Hara | Fascinating fall-out recently following the publication of Ron Suskind’s new book ‘The Way of the World’ (Simon & Schuster 2008) in which he argues two things of interest. Firstly, the
Read More »RIPA Surveillance Law Misused On Merseyside
By Andrew Brown | HUNDREDS of people across Merseyside have been under surveillance by local authorities using powers under so-called “terror laws”, according to details released under the Freedom of Information Act. An investigation has
Read More »Britain: Security Service “facilitated” torture of Guantánamo detainee
By Richard Tyler | A London court has ruled that the British government must disclose information that could support the claim that torture was used to extract confessions from Binyam Mohamed, a former British
Read More »Blackwater-linked firm to train Canadian troops
By Allan Woods | OTTAWA–Canadian soldiers could get training from a U.S. company closely linked to Blackwater USA, a private security firm implicated in the killings of hundreds of Iraqi civilians, if the Department
Read More »Pledge: Refuse To Comply With ID Scheme
From the Blog of Kev: I will refuse to comply with any compulsary ID card scheme. but only if 1,000 other UK people will do the same. Deadline to pledge 31st December 2008, pledge
Read More »Why can’t energy firms pick up the bill?
Demands grow for windfall tax as fuel companies rake in record profits Socialist Worker | “British economy grinds to a halt” cried the headlines last weekend. Charles Bean, the deputy governor of the Bank
Read More »Running for War President at Any Cost
By Robert Scheer | Just great! Nuclear-armed Pakistan is falling apart, Iran’s nuclear program is unchecked and congressional legislation on cooperation with the Russians on controlling nuclear proliferation is now dead in the water. Horrid
Read More »Joe Biden and the political establishment’s overriding goal
By Glenn Greenwald | Writing in a New York Times blog yesterday, Clinton pollster Mark Penn hails the selection of Joe Biden as “a smart and successful choice” and says this: From Al Gore on,
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