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Iraq holding thousands in secret prisons: lawmaker
Iraqi opposition lawmaker claims government holding thousands in unofficial prisons An Iraqi opposition lawmaker claimed Thursday that thousands of his countrymen are being mistreated in detention centers outside the official prison system. Sunni legislator
Read More »Genuine UK Activists Invade and Occupy UK Power Plant
Because they care about the issue — not about Youtube hits, UK truthers take note ;) By Alex Felsinger | The crown jewel of Greenpeace’s naval arm, the Rainbow Warrior, pulled in to the harbor alongside
Read More »Passport Service dismisses 14 for database abuses
The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) says it has dismissed 14 people over the last three years in relation to passport database abuses.The IPS is now closely involved in building the government’s national identity
Read More »Capitalism is bankrupt
Their system creates recession, hunger and climate chaos, but they want you to pay Until A few weeks ago, supporters of free market capitalism were confident enough to proclaim that their system was the
Read More »Next U.S. president must scrap Guantanamo
The head of Amnesty International called on Thursday for the winner of next week’s U.S. presidential election to shut the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba within 100 days of taking office. Irene Khan
Read More »The End is at Hand (to Leftist Conspiracy Theories)
By Dave Lindorff With the polls continuing to show Barack Obama holding a steady or even growing lead heading into Election Day, especially in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Colorado, New
Read More »CIA officers could face trial in Britain over torture allegations
Attorney General to investigate abuse claims By Robert Verkaik Senior CIA officers could be put on trial in Britain after it emerged last night that the Attorney General is to investigate allegations that a
Read More »McCain Racism, Hypocrisy on Khalidi Issue
This Is The Lowest McCain Has Sunk Yet By Juan Cole The increasingly sleazy John McCain, who once promised to run a clean campaign, has now attacked my friend Rashid Khalidi and attempted to
Read More »‘A Fake Banking History of the United States’
By Thomas J. DiLorenzo | Ask yourself this question: was the housing price bubble, which has burst, caused by (a) a Fed policy of too much liquidity, which caused artificially low interest rates, which in
Read More »The Triumph of Ignorance: How Morons Succeed in U.S. Politics
Obama has a lot to offer, but until our education system is fixed or religious fundamentalism withers, anti-intellectuals will flaunt their ignorance. How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the United
Read More »Civilian ID cards ‘will not thwart terrorists’
Claims that identity cards will protect against terrorism are ‘absolute bunkum’ – says an expert at the government’s intelligence agency. JOHN HIGGINSON The £4billion card scheme is really part of Labour’s agenda to cut
Read More »How Safe Are Mobile Phones?
By Chanyut Phrukkumwong | Long-term exposure to electromagnetic radio waves at certain strengths does cause brain tumors. Just like in the case of cigarette smoking, which nobody realized could damage your health until the
Read More »How the Government Spies on and Prosecutes Peace Activists
A First-Hand Account of the Ghosts of Iraq War Trial in Washington, D.C., October 20-24, 2008 By Joy First Madison, WI — I was involved in a jury trial in Washington, DC October 20-24
Read More »The “Dirty Little Secret” Of the US Bank Bailout
WSWS | In an unusually frank article published in Saturday’s New York Times, the newspaper’s economic columnist, Joe Nocera, reveals what he calls “the dirty little secret of the banking industry”–namely, that “it has no
Read More »Big bankings’ military activities
By Ruth Tanner | The Government’s decision to take a controlling stake in some of the largest British financial institutions comes as a new War on Want report reveals how high street banks are
Read More »CIA Can Hide Torture Allegations, Court Rules
By Ryan Singel The CIA can hide statements from imprisoned suspected terrorists that the agency tortured them in its set of secret prisons, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the
Read More »Obama’s Infomercial Hits Home
By Ruth Conniff | Barack Obama’s 30-minute, prime-time infomercial played on the heartstrings of stressed-out Americans. It all worked together. The violin music, the soft focus stories, the greatest hits from some of his
Read More »Bush Missing Iraq WMD has Been Found in Iraq and One Million U.S. Soldiers are its Victims
No Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) that Bush told us were in Iraq were found. Today, to the tragedy of over one million U.S. soldiers and countless innocent Iraqi civilians, there is a Weapon
Read More »Anthrax scare empties Calif. congressman’s office
California congressman’s office evacuated after it receives package labeled ‘anthrax’ A state office of a California congressman has been evacuated after receiving an envelope labeled “anthrax.” No one was hurt after the package was
Read More »Explosion of Mandatory Police Searches on British Citizens
By Mick Meaney – RINF | Last weekend Lancashire police and the Lancashire County Council’s Safer Travel Unit began stop and search procedures on members of the public travelling to and from Lancaster bus station.
Read More »Elephants, Donkeys And Party X
By ZingPao | If we truly live in a land of Freedom & Opportunity, then we should be able to vote for any political party that wants to run candidates. So why aren’t we
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