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UK government spends 2 million on TV documentaries promoting their policies
The government’s Orwellian-named “Central Office of Information” has been funding a series of ITV documentaries which paint their policies in a positive light. The programmes were made to look like regular documentaries, and most
Read More »Climate camp raided for a second time
Six people have been arrested at Medway’s climate camp. The first arrest was at 12.30am today, when a 40-year-old man was quizzed on suspicion of possession of a prohibited weapon The other five were
Read More »Police get £160m of bonuses in one year
By Christopher Hope | The payments were condemned by frontline officers and even a police chief who benefited personally from them. Taxpayer groups said the payments raised “serious questions” about why so much was
Read More »First UK ID card contract with Thales worth £18m
By Jeremy Kirk | Thales has won a four-year contract worth £18 million for the UK’s national ID card programme, which aims to keep closer track of its citizens to cut down on crime
Read More »South Korea Says U.S. Killed Hundreds of Civilians
“When the napalm hit our village, many people were still sleeping in their homes,” said Lee Beom-ki, 76. “Those who survived the flames ran to the tidal flats. We were trying to show the
Read More »The Politics of Rice
Inside USA travels to Haiti to look at how the stories of politics, rice, and the United States are deeply interwoven. Twenty years ago, Haiti produced enough rice to feed its population. Importing rice
Read More »Did McCain’s foreign-policy advisor profit from the Iraq war?
By Mark Benjamin | As recently as last year, John McCain’s senior foreign-policy and national security advisor, a neoconservative who played a leading role in pushing for a U.S. invasion of Iraq, was trying
Read More »Spy-in-sky patrols over British cities
By Jason Lewis | MI5 is using a fleet of sophisticated surveillance aircraft to search for unidentified Britons who fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. The manhunt has been ordered because it is feared the
Read More »Guantanamo dangles new incentive for detainees
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA — In hopes of encouraging better behavior among terrorism suspects in a maximum-security facility here, parts of it will be gradually transformed to let some of the men eat, visit and
Read More »FBI Told to Blame Anthrax on al-Qaeda
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK - WASHINGTON | In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks, White House officials repeatedly pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove it was a second-wave assault by Al Qaeda, but
Read More »Next president should order investigation of Bush-Cheney use of torture
By Rosa Brooks, Los Angeles Times | Even war criminals have fan clubs. On Tuesday, 15,000 people in Belgrade, Serbia, protested the transfer of indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic to the International Criminal Tribunal at
Read More »Media Censorship at Olympics in China Mirrors FDA Censorship of Health Product Claims in America
NaturalNews | The U.S. media is loudly protesting the censorship of their reporters at the Olympics in Beijing. Betraying its promise to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), China has blocked reporters’ access to “sensitive”
Read More »FBI seizes local Md. library computers
The FBI removed computer records from the C. Burr Artz Library this week, a library official confirmed Saturday. Darrell Batson, director of Frederick County Public Libraries, said two FBI employees came to the downtown
Read More »US Army tests secret Bio-Weapons on U.S Citizens
Shocking Documentary that exposes the USA Army secretly testing Bio-Weapons on the public without their knowledge. Look up in the sky and see that Chemtrails are now admitted openly in documents
Read More »Afghanistan: Not a Good War
By Conn Hallinan | Every war has a story line. World War I was “the war to end all wars.” World War II was “the war to defeat fascism.” Iraq was sold as a
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