Monthly Archives: November 2008 »
Venezuelan Elections: The Media Response
By Stephen Lendman | On November 23, Venezuela held regional and local elections for governors, mayors and other municipal offices. Over 5000 candidates contested in 603 races for 22 state governors, 328 mayors, 233
Read More »The Legal Advice to Wage War on Iraq was not just “sexed-up”, it was concocted
By C Stephen Frost | Mary Bedworth, Christopher Burns-Cox, Lou Coatney and David Halpin co-signed this article, which appeared as a commentary in The Guardian following the publication of an article by Richard Norton Taylor (see
Read More »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, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition alleges. By Kenneth R. Harney | In what is apparently the first legal
Read More »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” exhibit, ‘A Very Manifest Alteration’ to December 31. Pilot James ‘Jemmy’ Darrell is the basis
Read More »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 in the strip. Parliamentarians, community leaders, NGOs and human rights activists, from different countries, have
Read More »Taking liberties with information
FT | So much for parliamentary privilege: Damian Green, the frontbench Conservative MP for Ashford, was arrested this week and held for nine hours for his part in leaking official documents to the press. The
Read More »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 project, suggesting the future should remember him for his “liberation” of 50 million people
Read More »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 CIA cover-up in the 2001 military attack on a small plane in Peru
Read More »CCTV Judges Your Behaviour
Via anonymous email Portsmouth introduces CCTV cameras that can ‘identify’ suspicious behaviour and alert their operators As an MP is reportedly arrested for trying to leak information in the public interest, and royal assent
Read More »‘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 world’s first legally binding targets for a country to reduce carbon emissions. Its aim
Read More »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 New York Times, “To Buy Children’s Gifts, Mothers Do Without,” describes
Read More »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 they are handed over to the Iraqi authorities, top rights Amnesty International
Read More »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 has a president pardoned himself or his subordinates for crimes he authorized. The closest thing
Read More »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 describe the 2003 invasion of Iraq as “serious violation of international
Read More »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 allowed direct contact with students, the higher education equality watchdog has said. Several higher education staff were among BNP
Read More »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 bailout house of cards. Their two agencies kicked in another $800 billion
Read More »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 what happens when you pick up the phone and call one of the Clintons.
Read More »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 careers were, records were reviewed in the business press, and
Read More »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 economy — if there’s anything left to rescue by then —
Read More »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 in an investigation into how the health service handles data. Research showed that
Read More »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 and ease its introduction, there is to be a cynical requirement for foreign
Read More »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 advice on Afghanistan. I’ve been following the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from Go
Read More »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 of high-level George W. Bush administration officials for torture and war crimes are a distant prospect.
Read More »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 time to look back at the past administration’s rocky record on executive power and the
Read More »A Privacy And Security Pandora’s Box?
ScienceDaily | A research article published in the current issue of the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management suggests that Big Brother could be opening a privacy and security Pandora’s Box if human rights, particularly
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