Daily Archives: August 8, 2008 »
Class War Reply To The New Statesman
Class War | The 7 August issue of the New Statesman has a lengthy piece by Stephan Armstrong on “The New Spies”. Amongst an analysis of the private security industry targeting protesters at events
Read More »Climate protesters arrested after gluing themselves to bank
guardian.co.uk | Two environmental activists who glued themselves to the front doors of a bank in London today have been arrested for a breach of the peace, police said. A group of four protesters calling
Read More »‘No to Olympics without human rights’
A protester tried to set himself alight outside the Chinese embassy in Ankara on Friday as Chinese Muslims denounced human rights violations in China ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games. About 300 people,
Read More »Call to crack down on police taser use
By Mark Davis | CIVIL rights advocates have seized on Federal Government plans for legal bans on torture to argue for tighter controls on the use of tasers by police. The Attorney-General, Robert McClelland,
Read More »Waterboard torture a theme park attraction
By Ritsuko Ando in New York | A MAN with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it’s not Guantanamo Bay
Read More »Why DNA databases are doomed
By Glyn Moody | I’ve been against DNA databases for years, but I’ve always felt that the generic arguments I’ve been using were a little pallid, shall we say. And now, in what amounts
Read More »DMCA Does Not Apply to U.S. Government
Via Bruce Schneier | According to a recent court ruling, we are all subject to the provisions of the DMCA, but the government is not: he Court of Federal Claims that first heard the case threw
Read More »Peaceful Protesters Become Terrorists in a Federal Database
By Patty Donovan | According to documents released on Thursday, July 17, 2008, undercover state troopers in Maryland infiltrated at least three groups peacefully protesting the death penalty and advocating peace. These troopers illegally
Read More »Bin Laden Firm to Build Saudi Arabian Prisons to Replace Guantanamo Bay
Saudi Arabia prisons to replace Guantanamo bay Pakistan Daily Saudi Arabia is to build five modern prisons in the kingdom to replace US Guantanamo detention facility, a new report has revealed. Jordanian daily quoted
Read More »Guantanamo detainee petitions rights panel over torture
A Guantanamo detainee on Wednesday urged a human rights panel that investigates abuse cases in the Americas to review his accusations that he was tortured in the US “war on terror” prison. Djamel Ameziane,
Read More »Anthrax case against bio-weapons expert ‘staggering for lack of evidence’
The case against the lone suspect in the 2001 anthrax case, who killed himself last week, has been blasted by his lawyer as based on nothing but “innuendo and a staggering lack of real
Read More »US accused of backing terrorism in Pakistan
Indo-Asian News Service | Pakistan has accused the US of backing militancy within the country, saying this goes against the grain of the Washington-led global war against terror. Quoting “impeccable official sources”, The
Read More »White House press corps plane detained in China
BEIJING – A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly three hours Friday at Beijing’s international airport not long after President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games. The
Read More »Candidates for Sale
What do Obama and McCain have in common? The same big donors, who will expect to have their way no matter who wins Remember the total, hideous, inexcusable absence of oversight that has been
Read More »America’s never-ending prohibition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – America’s alcohol prohibition lasted 13 years, filled the country’s prisons, inspired contempt for the law among millions, bred corruption and produced Al Capone. What it did not do was keep Americans
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