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Bush Admin – The Most Secretive Govt Ever?
(IPS) | The administration of President George W. Bush continues to expand government secrecy across a broad array of agencies and actions — and at greatly increased cost to taxpayers, according to a coalition of
Read More »Quebec man changes name to dodge relentless airport screening
A Quebec businessman whose name is one of the many that have erroneously landed on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s flight passenger watch list has decided to change his name to avoid lengthy
Read More »Coca-Cola to Phase Out Toxic Sodium Benzoate in the U.K.
By David Gutierrez | The Coca-Cola Company has announced that it is in the process of phasing out the use of food additive sodium benzoate in the United Kingdom, after a number of studies
Read More »McCain Now Claims to be Reformer of Wall Street
By Matthew Rothschild | Today is not a good day if you’re a free marketeer. Lehman Brothers has collapsed. Merrill Lynch sold itself off to Bank of America. The stock market tumbled badly out
Read More »Army scientists want to create ‘brain-wave helmet’
By Mark Thompson / Washington | Soldiers barking orders at each other is so 20th Century. That’s why the U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing “thought helmets” that would
Read More »DRUGS: A BUSINESS FOR OUR TIMES
By Sam Smith - Progressive Review | Since there is so much bad financial news these days, we thought this might cheer you up. The drug business is doing extremely well, thanks in large part to
Read More »Intelligence officer claims CIA was complicit in torture in Uzbekistan
By Neil Mackay | THE CIA SENT ITS agents into Uzbekistan torture chambers to observe the abuse of alleged Islamic terrorists, acc-ording to a dissident member of the Uzbek security services who is now seeking political asylum in the UK after
Read More »Union leaders stifle growing militancy of London Underground workers
By Daniel O’Flynn and Paul Mitchell | Leaders of the Rail, Maritime and Transport trade union (RMT) are seeking to stifle the growing militancy on the London Underground rail system and prevent the development
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