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Channel 4 journalist grills Olympics organisers over human rights
guardian.co.uk | Channel 4 News correspondent Alex Thomson used a press conference in Beijing today to repeatedly challenge Olympics organisers over China’s record on human rights. Thomson asked a representative of the International Olympics Committee
Read More »India to examine protest deaths
By Ram Dutt Tripathi | The government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has ordered an inquiry into the deaths of four farmers during clashes with the police on Wednesday. The clashes –
Read More »Rwanda: Obscuring the Truth About the Genocide
By Barrie Collins - Spiked | Last week, the Rwandan government published the findings of its commission of inquiry into the role France played in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. It found French diplomats, military
Read More »British libel laws violate human rights, says UN
guardian.co.uk | Britain’s libel laws have come under attack from the United Nations committee on human rights for discouraging coverage of matters of major public interest. The use of the Official Secrets Act to deter
Read More »What’s on Tap and What You Need to Know About Drinking Water
By Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D. | The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental action organization, recently conducted an in-depth study into the quality of drinking water across the United States. Reviewing the tap
Read More »BAE case in the Lords
CAAT News | The five senior Judges are technically a committee of the Lords so the hearing took place in a Lords’ Committee room, dominated by a huge painting of the burial of King
Read More »Guantanamo general calls 2nd general ‘bullying’
By Carol Rosenberg | GUANTANAMO BAY NAY BASE, Cuba — One general testified about another general at the war court Wednesday, describing a Pentagon official fast-tracking trials here as “abusive, bullying, unprofessional.” Moreover, in
Read More »Antiwar activists seek expanded police probe
Tom LoBianco | Antiwar activists who were targeted by an undercover state police operation from 2005 to 2006 will ask state investigators Tuesday to expand their probe to learn whether other law enforcement agencies
Read More »Is Perpetual War Our Future? Learning the Wrong Lessons from the Bush Era
TomDispatch | To the problem of an overstretched, over-toured military, there is but one answer in Washington. Both presidential candidates (along with just about every other politician in our nation’s capital) are on record
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