Daily Archives: September 24, 2008 »
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
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