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US pledges to support new government
By Erika Niedowski | WASHINGTON // Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, effectively bade farewell yesterday to a critical ally in the US war on terrorism, Pervez Musharraf, and pledged US support to
Read More »Iraq wants to put torturers on trial
Iraq’s human rights ministry says wants torturers not to be included on amnesty lists. BAGHDAD – Iraq’s human rights ministry says it wants to put on trial torturers who benefit from complete immunity despite
Read More »Passengers test new face scanners
Facial recognition scanners are being trialled at an airport as part of government efforts to improve security and reduce passenger congestion. The system has been introduced at Manchester Airport. It can be used by
Read More »The Secret Deal For Iraq’s Oil
The Public Record | Four months before the United States invaded Iraq, the Department of Defense was secretly working with Vice President Dick Cheney’s old company, Halliburton Corp., on a secret deal that would give
Read More »Children as Big Pharma Guinea Pigs
98 Percent of Drug Trials on Children Have no Safety Checks By David Gutierrez | Fewer than 2 percent of drug trials conducted on children have independent safety advisory boards, a review published in
Read More »Blackwater guards face prosecution over killing of 17 Iraqi civilians
By James Bone | Six Blackwater Worldwide security guards have been notified that they could face prosecution in America for shooting dead 17 civilians in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square in an infamous incident that provoked
Read More »Greg Palast: Chewing the Buddha Bush at the Olympics
Lhasa, Tibet – China’s secret police are just terrible at keeping themselves secret. The detective, dressed in her business suit and pumps appropriate to urban Lhasa, did not expect to be trailing my wife
Read More »Teachers concerned over CCTV in schools
A quarter of teachers are said to be worried about hidden surveillance cameras in their schools. According to members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) in a survey, cameras in the school
Read More »ID card ‘propaganda’ backfires as students revolt
By Etan Smallman | Trust Britain’s youth to be characteristically ungrateful. The Government goes to all the effort of making a website for 16 to 25- year-olds to express their views on identity cards,
Read More »Journalist says U.S. target was Al-Jazeera
By Bob Egelko | After more than six years as a prisoner of the United States, former TV cameraman Sami al-Hajj is back at work with Al-Jazeera, the largest broadcaster in the Arab world, a
Read More »PAKISTAN: Musharraf Quits, Avoids Impeachment
ISLAMABAD (IPS) | Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf resigned from office on Monday ending weeks of speculation over whether he would quit or face impeachment on charges of illegally seizing power by a parliament elected in
Read More »Record Number of US Contractors in Iraq
Some 190,000 private personnel were working in the Iraq theater as of early this year, a new report says. By Peter Grier | Washington – The American military has depended on private contractors since sutlers
Read More »US, allies contemplating action against Russia
CRAWFORD, Texas – The United States on Sunday accused Russia of stalling its military pullback in Georgia, but the Bush administration is not rushing to repudiate Moscow for its actions. The White House is
Read More »Victims of the Drug War Are Forced to Resort to Bizarre Legal Defenses
By Kevin Carey | On November 16, 2005, Willie “Bo” Mitchell and three co-defendants — Shelton “Little Rock” Harris, Shelly “Wayne” Martin, and Shawn Earl Gardner — appeared for a hearing in the modern federal
Read More »Memo Instructed CIA To Document Both Torture Techniques And Agents Participating In Interrogations
The American Civil Liberties Union obtained three redacted documents related to the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation policies, including a previously withheld Justice Department memo authorizing the CIA’s use of torture. The government was ordered
Read More »McCain Betrays Himself By Defining Rich at $5 million
By Matthew Rothschild | I don’t know why a pastor was allowed to hold the first forum with the Presidential candidates—in a church, no less—but there was a revealing exchange between Rick Warren and
Read More »War On Terror board game seized by police
Cambridge News | A War On Terror board game designed in Cambridge has been seized by police who claim the balaclava in the set could be used in a criminal act. The satirical board
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