Monthly Archives: September 2008 »
FDA Approved Human Medical Experiments with Artificial Blood; Hundreds Died
By David Gutierrez | The FDA allowed tests to proceed on new varieties of artificial blood even though it should have been aware that the products drastically increased patients’ risk of heart attacks and
Read More »The Oppression of Black People, the Crimes of this System, and the Revolution We Need
http://revcom.us/a/144/BNQ-en.html | “The young man was shot 41 times while reaching for his wallet”…“the 13-year-old was shot dead in mid-afternoon when police mistook his toy gun for a pistol”… “the unarmed young man, shot by
Read More »Migrants exploited for cheap labour
Corporate Watch | Detainees at the Campsfield House immigration prison in Oxfordshire are being “exploited for cheap labour” due to staff cuts, the Oxford and District Trades Union Council has revealed. The rejected asylum seekers,
Read More »$20M Cameras at New York’s Freedom Tower Try to Detect ‘Anomalies’
By David W. Dunlap | This is the scale of 1 World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower, which is now beginning to emerge from below ground: the contract for the electronic security system alone is
Read More »Lies, Crimes and Cover-ups – Human Rights Watch in Venezuela
By James Petras | Human Rights Watch, a US-based group claiming to be a non-governmental organization, but which is in fact funded by government-linked quasi-private foundations and a Congressional funded political propaganda organization, the
Read More »Former spy chief joins 42-day detention critics
By Duncan Campbell | The government’s 42 days counterterrorism legislation came under fresh fire last night when a former director general of MI5 said the provision to hold suspects for six weeks without charge
Read More »Jon Snow: “Editors sold their souls” to MoD
Media Workers Against the War | Jon Snow, Channel 4 news anchor, reveals his anger on Radio 4 at the news blackout on Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan. On a programme stacked with pro-war journalists,
Read More »Election Officials Telling College Students They Can’t Vote
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy.com | WASHINGTON – Colorado Democrats accused a Republican county clerk Wednesday of falsely informing Colorado College that students from outside the state could not register to vote if their parents
Read More »McCain-Palin Campaign Increasingly Staffed by Bush Administration Officials
ShortNews | Even as the McCain-Palin campaign seeks to distance itself from the Bush administration, at least half a dozen former Bush operatives are now advising McCain-Palin. A Republican with ties to Bush questioned
Read More »‘Pre-crime’ detector shows promise
New Scientist | Last year, New Scientist revealed that the US Department of Homeland Security is developing a system designed to detect “hostile thoughts” in people walking through border posts, airports and public places.
Read More »Robert Fisk: Horrors of War Our Leaders Never Have to Confront
Just outside Andrew Holden’s office at the Christchurch Press off Cathedral Square – and, believe me, New Zealand’s prettiest city is as colonial as they come, a Potemkin town of mock-Tudor government buildings, Scottish
Read More »Racism and the Race
By Matthew Rothschild | The race boils down to racism. All things being equal, Barack Obama would win the presidency hands down. Unemployment is at a five-year high. Wages are shrinking. The stock market
Read More »Smile please, you’re on 1,000 CCTV cameras
By Richard Down | ALMOST 1,000 local authority CCTV cameras provide surveillance on Merseyside as people go about their everyday lives, the Daily Post has found. Additional CCTV cameras are located on Merseytravel trains
Read More »Councils ordered to stop snooping on residents
Councils will be ordered to stop spying on local residents amid Government concerns over the continuing creep of the surveillance state. By Rosa Prince | Ministers from the Department of Communities and the Home
Read More »Climate change demo cost police £6m
The estimated cost of policing a week-long protest against climate change stands at just under £6 million, it has been disclosed. Around £5.9 million has been spent policing the Camp for Climate Action event
Read More »Rights groups demonstrate outside UN
Amnesty International and human rights activists are expected to send a message to United Nations Security Council at a rally on Thursday evening urging the body to reject efforts to block indictment of Sudanese
Read More »Buy Your Poison – Aspartame, Diet Soda, Splenda
Dr. Leo Rebello | Chemist James Schlatter was working on an anti-ulcer drug candidate in the labs of G.D. Searle & Company. He was recrystallizing aspartame from ethanol when the mixture spilled on to
Read More »Winter Soldier: Eye Witness Accounts of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
By John Stauber | Two years ago public revulsion against the Bush Administration’s unnecessary and disastrous attack and occupation of Iraq resulted in the Democratic Party taking control of the US Congress. But Nancy
Read More »London Protesters Demand an End to US Coups
Venezuela Analysis | Scores of solidarity campaigners picketed the US embassy in London on Wednesday night before a huge rally at the National Union of Journalists head office to demand an end to US interference
Read More »Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes–”We fear another cover-up”
WSWS | Patricia da Silva Armani is the cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes. She spoke to the World Socialist Web Site on the eve of the coroner’s inquest convened into the innocent Brazilian’s brutal
Read More »John Pilger: This conflict is repeating the historical patterns of imperialism
Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger is warning that the extension of the Afghanistan war into Pakistan has grim echoes of the past. “There are striking parallels between US actions in Afghanistan and Pakistan with
Read More »DNA contract reveals plan to probe offenders’ families
Now you see it, now you don’t: A proposed $300,000 contract between Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and a British DNA lab provided for software that would help track down criminals by identifying
Read More »Younger teens ‘to get ID cards’
Identity cards could be handed out to children as young as 14, a home office minister has suggested. The first ID cards are due to be offered to 16 and 17-year-olds from 2010 as
Read More »US generals planning for resource wars
ANALYSIS: The US military sees the next 30 to 40 years as involving a state of continuous war against ideologically-motivated terrorists and competing with Russia and China for natural resources and markets, writes Tom
Read More »Will International Law Reach Bush?
By Peter Dyer | Q: What do Radovan Karadzic, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and George W. Bush have in common? A: Each lives under the slowly growing shadow of a body
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