Daily Archives: October 21, 2008 »
Iraq seeks changes to U.S. troops pact
By Mariam Karouny and Peter Graff | BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq demanded changes to a draft security pact with the United States Tuesday after it failed to win the support of its political leaders
Read More »Documents Show Tobacco Industry Conspired Against Airline Smoking Ban
PR Watch | An analysis of tobacco industry documents published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) tells how the German cigarette industry worked to stop Lufthansa, the flagship airline of Germany, from banning smoking
Read More »Powell Lies About Iraq War after Endorsing Obama
By Matthew Rothschild | Save your praise of Colin Powell. Because while he was endorsing Barack Obama, he was busy rewriting the history of the Iraq War and perpetuating blatant lies about his role
Read More »More than 16.5 million people were placed at risk of identity theft
More than 16.5 million people were placed at risk of identity theft, after their details were lost or stolen from financial services firms, Computer Weekly has learned. The figures, obtained by Computer Weekly under
Read More »Porn protest at Westminster against new ‘thought crime’
Models wearing chains, stockings and gags have been led around Westminster in protest at laws to make owning “extreme pornography” illegal. From next year, possession of images such as those showing a threat to
Read More »Microsoft to ban freedom of speech?
By James Sherwood Microsoft has come over all PC – gedddit?!?!? – by filing a patent application for technology that’ll stop you from swearing online. In its “Automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast”
Read More »VIDEO: Centuries of British freedoms being ‘broken’ by security state
Centuries of British civil liberties risk being broken by the relentless pressure from the ‘security state’, the country’s top prosecutor has warned. By Christopher Hope Outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald warned
Read More »Bush Decides to Keep Guantánamo Open
By STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON — Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the
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