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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
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