• Venezuelan Elections: The Media Response

  By Stephen Lendman | On November 23, Venezuela held regional and local elections for governors, mayors and other municipal...

   

• The Legal Advice to Wage War on Iraq was not just “sexed-up”, it was concocted

  

  Nov 29, 2008 10:23

  By C Stephen Frost | Mary Bedworth, Christopher Burns-Cox, Lou Coatney and David Halpin co-signed this article, which appeared...

   

• Civil rights complaint targets Wall Street rating firms

  Moody’s and Fitch’s high ratings of subprime mortgage bonds disproportionately harmed black and Latino home buyers,...

   

• Freedom from slavery – at a price

  Even after emancipation, the lives of former slaves in BDA were heavily policed The Bermuda Archives has extended its “groundbreaking”...

   

• Activists want end to Israeli blockade of Gaza

  Human rights activists are calling on Egypt to open its border with Gaza to prevent the deteriorating humanitarian situation...

   

• Taking liberties with information

  FT | So much for parliamentary privilege: Damian Green, the frontbench Conservative MP for Ashford, was arrested this week...

   

• Bush Speaks of Legacy

  Truthdig | Still-President Bush has discussed his legacy with his sister Dorothy Bush Koch as part of a national oral-history...

   

• Report suggests CIA covered up role in missionary’s death

  By Steve Gunn MUSKEGON, Mich. — A top-ranking Republican said he will call for a new federal inquiry into an alleged...

   

• CCTV Judges Your Behaviour

  

  Nov 28, 2008 18:12

  Via anonymous email Portsmouth introduces CCTV cameras that can ‘identify’ suspicious behaviour and alert their...

   

• ‘Historic’ UK climate laws ushered in

  Three laws aimed at fighting climate change come into force in Britain today. by JOEL TAYLOR The legislation provides the...

   

• No More Shop till You Drop

  By Ruth Conniff | Black Friday is only a day away, and it doesn’t look good for retailers. A front-page story in The...

   

• Iraq: Security pact ‘puts detainees at risk of torture’

  Baghdad, 27 Nov. (AKI) – Thousands of Iraqis detained by US forces will be at risk of torture or even execution if...

   

• You Cannot Pardon a Crime You Authorized

  Statement from the Steering Committee for the Prosecution for War Crimes of President Bush and His Subordinates Never before...

   

• Lord Bingham says Iraq invasion was a violation of international law

  By Robert Stevens | Lord Bingham used the occasion of his first major speech since his retirement as a senior law lord to...

   

• Watchdog wants BNP to be denied right to teach

  Via http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com | Members of the British National Party (BNP) working in universities should not be...

   

• Adding New Floors to the Bailout House of Cards

  By Phil Mattera | Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have added a few more floors to their ever-expanding...

   

• ALEXANDER COCKBURN: The Honeymoon is Looking a Bit Wan

  By ALEXANDER COCKBURN | Two years without a single leak and suddenly, last week, Obama’s operation was like a sieve. That’s...

   

• Noam Chomsky on the election

  There was meeting on November 7, I think of a group of couple, of a dozen advisers to deal with the financial crisis. Their...

   

• Why Obama should end the criminal “war on terror”

  By Gary Kamiya | Barack Obama will confront a daunting list of priorities when he takes office on Jan. 20. Rescuing the nation’s...

   

• A catalogue of NHS data breaches

  By Leo King | The NHS has lost confidential medical records and personal details of thousands of patients it has emerged...

   

• Britain cannot afford ID cards

  Telegraph | For the first time since 1952, the British government is issuing identity cards. In order to test the system...

   

• Rumsfeld’s Attempts to Rewrite Himself on the Right Side of History Are Laughable

  By Gary Brecher | The failed defense secretary pens a historical cover-up on Iraq and reveals more wild stupidity with his...

   

• No Amnesty for Bush Administration, Say Torture Opponents

  By Ali Gharib | Judging by the rare leaks from President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, investigations and prosecutions...

   

• Obama, Bush & The War Crimes

  By Ari Melber | Many Washington Republicans and Democrats agree on one maxim for President-elect Barack Obama: This is no...

   

• A Privacy And Security Pandora’s Box?

  ScienceDaily | A research article published in the current issue of the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management...