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Climate change protesters deny they are armed
guardian.co.uk | Climate change protesters today accused police of conducting a smear campaign after officers said they had recovered knives and makeshift weapons during searches of the protest camp at Kingsnorth power station in Kent.
Read More »S. Koreans fire water cannons at Bush protesters
SEOUL, South Korea – Police fired water cannons at thousands of protesters Tuesday as President Bush got a volatile reception in South Korea at the start of his three-nation Asian trip. Dueling demonstrations reflected
Read More »MP accuses Government of building DNA database by stealth
By Shahid Naqvi | A Tory MP whose Black Country uncle was murdered more than a year ago has accused the Government of creating a “DNA database by stealth” after police failed to return
Read More »DNA database least of our concerns
By Ian Williams | Privacy concerns over the details of innocents being held in the UK’s National DNA Database are not nearly as worrying as other planned government files. This is the revelation from
Read More »Diego Garcia: the UK’s shame
By Andy Worthington | The ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus wrote: “In war, truth is the first casualty.” These words are particularly apt in relation to the British Overseas Territory of Diego Garcia, leased to the
Read More »Pressure Grows for F.B.I.’s Anthrax Evidence
WASHINGTON — After four years of painstaking scientific research, the F.B.I. by 2005 had traced the anthrax in the poisoned letters of 2001 to a single flask of the bacteria at the Army biodefense
Read More »U.S. May Have Taped Visits to Detainees
The Bush administration informed all foreign intelligence and law enforcement teams visiting their citizens held at Guantanamo Bay that video and sound from their interrogation sessions would be recorded, according to documents obtained by
Read More »Secret deal kept British Army out of battle for Basra
By Deborah Haynes in Baquba and Michael Evans | A secret deal between Britain and the notorious al-Mahdi militia prevented British Forces from coming to the aid of their US and Iraqi allies for
Read More »Marines ordered to stay longer in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has ordered roughly 1,250 Marines serving as trainers for the Afghan security forces to stay on the warfront about a month longer to continue a mission that military leaders say
Read More »Union slams EPA chief for ignoring staff on global warming
By Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen Johnson stunned his staff last month when he publicly opposed their proposals for regulating greenhouse gas emissions, four union officials representing EPA
Read More »George Tenet And White House Admit Iraq Intelligence Chief Told Them Iraq Had No WMD
Ron Suskind was on NPR this morning to discuss his new book The Way of the World, which alleges Iraq’s intelligence chief Tahir Jalil Habbush told the US before the war that Iraq had
Read More »Study: 1 in 4 soldiers at war have hearing loss
By Gregg Zoroya | The bombs along the Baghdad road exploded one after the other, leaving one soldier unconscious and another screaming from his wounds. Staff Sgt. Kevin Dunne’s squad was under attack. Rifle
Read More »Would Obama prosecute the Bush administration for torture?
By Mark Benjamin | On the campaign trail in April, Barack Obama was asked whether, if elected, he would prosecute Bush administration officials for establishing torture as American policy. The candidate demurred. “If crimes
Read More »Suskind: Bush ordered fake letter linking Iraq to 9/11
By David Edwards and Nick Juliano | A blockbuster new book from investigative journalist Ron Suskind adds another revelation to the growing canon demonstrating the lengths to which President Bush and members of his
Read More »New Book Claims Bush White House Used Forged Documents In Case For Iraq War
Haaretz | The Bush administration used forged documents that it presented as evidence of Saddam Hussein’s complicity in the September 11 terrorist attacks, and which were later used as a pretext to launch the American
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