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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
Read More »Television May Be Doing Your Thinking
By Lynn Berry | The world’s biggest leisure activity is watching television. Not walking or reading, not playing games with our children, not engaging with others in outdoor activities. Most of us like to
Read More »DARPA Contract Description Hints at Advanced Video Spying
By Walter Pincus | Real-time streaming video of Iraqi and Afghan battle areas taken from thousands of feet in the air can follow actions of people on the ground as they dig, shake hands,
Read More »VIDEO: “Bush Guilty Of First Deg Murder”
Vincent Bugliosi is heard by Congressman John Conyers, Chairman House Judiciary Committee Vincent Bugliosi is heard by Congressman John Conyers, Chairman House Judiciary Committee Inquiry Hearing on Articles of Impeachment Former L.A. County Prosecutor,
Read More »The Morning After the Elections
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO NOW? This is a message to those who got behind Barack Obama because they have been horrified and furious with the direction this society has taken over the past
Read More »THE REPUBLICAN FRAUD OVER VOTER FRAUD
Progressive Review - Although the poddle press continuous to play into the hands of the GOP on the issue, it is clear that fraud by a voter is a miniscule part of overall election
Read More »No More Investment Banks
Turn Them Into Public Utilities By Mike Whitney “If you made it past the credit crisis, you are not making it past the economic carnage.” Meredith A. Whitney, market analyst at Oppenheimer
Read More »The Rescue Plan Needs to be Rescued
Via Dirt Diggers Digest | Twice in the past month, the Bush Administration has sounded the alarm about the economy and pushed through unprecedented measures: a $700 billion buyout of toxic assets from financial institutions
Read More »America’s Coup D’État in the Making
Lew Rockwell | Following Plato, many moralists have associated political virtue with a reluctance to pursue and exercise power. To want to rule others is to be morally disqualified from doing so. The strong tendency
Read More »Pakistani Govt Split on Terror Policy
Last week’s rare intelligence briefing for the Pakistani parliament was meant to unite MPs behind President Asif Ali Zardari’s terror strategy, but seems to have been an utter failure. While members of the opposition
Read More »Tony Benn: What went wrong in the capitalist casino?
By Tony Benn | These words are from the 1945 Labour manifesto Let Us Face The Future which brilliantly identified the very same crisis which is now described as a “credit crunch” as if
Read More »Lies begin to unravel in police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
By Vicky Short and Paul Mitchell | Explosive testimony has been presented to the inquest into the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, suggesting that he was shot even though he was known
Read More »System Failure and the Need for Revolution
by Raymond Lotta | The most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of letting up. The financial edifice of U.S. imperialism is in danger of crumbling. The U.S. ruling class
Read More »The October Surprise: Global Panic
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Since 9/11, the notion of an October surprise has been around. The idea going something like this. Another real or manufactured terror attack. The dominant media stokes fear.
Read More »Pilger’s law: ‘If it’s been officially denied, then it’s probably true’
John Pilger, scourge of injustice, is still battling after half a century of campaigns. He’s even gunning for Tony Blair. By Ian Burrell Cross the threshold of John Pilger’s south London home and the
Read More »Riot police use violence to break up student demonstration
Harare – Riot police broke up a student demonstration in Harare, injuring at least four people and arresting three Tuesday, in the first such incident of police violence since the signing of a power-sharing
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