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Government considers Wales as ID card guinea pigs
By Hywel Trewyn CALLS to put Welsh on new ID cards are at last to be considered by the Government. The U-turn follows pressure from language campaigners who say it would be an insult
Read More »1978: Labour opposed ID cards to curb illegal immigration
By Kaya Burgess The Labour administration in 1978 believed the introduction of ID cards would be “unacceptable” and “objectionable” in the fight against illegal immigration, confidential documents released today show. The comments were in
Read More »US, Japanese Researchers Mix Samples of 1918 Flu Pandemic to Recreate Deadly Code
Lori Price Researchers recreate 1918 flu pandemic virus –Why? And, why is no one *asking* why? 29 Dec 2008 Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly — a group
Read More »Fisk: Leaders Lie, Civilians Die, and Lessons of History are Ignored
The Independent - We’ve got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don’t care any more – providing we don’t offend the Israelis. It’s not clear how many of the Gaza
Read More »The Qassam rockets myths
leninology.blogspot.com I warned you months ago: the magic word is ‘Sderot’. Any amount of barbarism can be justified by the frankly risible rocket attacks on southern Israel. The Israeli propaganda line, repeated with dogged
Read More »What Will Obama Do About Cannabis?
By NORM KENT He picked for Vice President one of the major architects of the Drug War. He picked for Chief of Staff one of the chief opponents of medical marijuana. He is talking
Read More »Chávez: Capitalists Have Manipulated the Message of Christ to Exploit the Poor
By Venezolana de Televisión “The Kingdom of Heaven is not a kingdom or life in the clouds. Either it exists here or else it exists nowhere,” President Chávez issued a wake-up call during the
Read More »Over 300 Killed in Gaza as Attacks Continue
The first day of what Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak assures us will be a “long and difficult” war in the Gaza Strip has come and gone, leaving at least 300 Gazans dead, over
Read More »Cheney Admits He ‘Signed Off’ on Waterboarding of Three Guantanamo Prisoners
Author’s note: Cheney’s admission during an interview with the Washington Times this week about his role in approving the waterboarding of three Guantanamo detainees and the so-called “enhanced interrogation” of 33 prisoners was, disturbingly,
Read More »Once High-Flying Developers Now Looking for Federal Aid
By Phil Mattera Opponents of the auto industry bailout, who warned that it would prompt other business sectors to ask for similar consideration, are probably feeling vindicated. Only days after the Bush Administration did
Read More »The West police who have criminal records
Serving police officers in the West have criminal records for offences including assault, drink driving and fraud a Freedom of Information inquiry has revealed. Wiltshire (no more than five), West Mercia (10) and Dorset
Read More »Zimbabwe police won’t free activists
By Jonathan Clayton POLICE in Zimbabwe defied a High Court order for the release to hospital of a leading human rights activist and eight other opposition campaigners, taking them off to an undisclosed location
Read More »Iraqi Journalist Who Threw Shoes at Bush Was Tortured in Jail, His Brother Says
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS BAGHDAD — The television reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush was burned by a cigarette in the hours after his arrest on Dec. 14 and was beaten so badly
Read More »We don’t need to “Rescue” this system
Revolution | Millions of people in the U.S., the wealthiest country in the world, are homeless. People’s need for shelter and other facilities does not determine what actually gets built. Instead, if more profit
Read More »Obama on Weed
“The war on drugs has been an utter failure. (W)e need to rethink and decriminalize our (nation’s) marijuana laws.” -Barack Obama, January 2004 (Watch the video here.) “I inhaled frequently, that was the point.”
Read More »Iraqi shoe thrower vows never to apologize to Bush, family says
Shoe-throwing journalist Muntather Zaidi told his family he would never apologize to President Bush for hurling his footwear at the American leader, even if he is chopped into pieces, his brother said after visiting
Read More »Londoners protest against ‘Police Brutality and State Terrorism’
A call for world-wide solidarity actions against state terrorism had come from those occupying the Polytechnic University in Athens, who linked their struggle to that of others around the world, “zero tolerance and repressive
Read More »Hunger mounts in the US
By Tom Eley As the economic crisis deepens, its human toll is becoming more evident. A new survey of food charities in the United States has revealed a dramatic increase in hunger.
Read More »Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes
Commondreams Dick Cheney has publicly confessed to ordering war crimes. Asked about waterboarding in an ABC News interview, Cheney replied, “I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process
Read More »One Missing Word Sowed the Seeds of Catastrophe
By Robert Fisk Editor’s note: This article was originally printed in The Independent. A nit-picker this week. And given the fact that we’re all remembering human rights, the Palestinians come to mind since they
Read More »Deterring Torture Through the Law
By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern “First, let’s kill all the lawyers” may have made sense in that Shakespearian scene, but there is a far simpler solution to the legal ambiguities regarding what to
Read More »Students criticise ID cards
ID cards for foreign students have been opposed by the University of Nottingham Students’ Union. All new international students and those renewing visas now have to register for the compulsory ID cards, since Government
Read More »ID authentication cards rolled out in Sheffield
The Home Office has claimed that businesses in Sheffield can now be reassured that employees from overseas are working for them legally, due to the introduction of identity verification cards. Foreign nationals will now
Read More »Why We Must Prosecute Bush and His Administration for War Crimes
By Mike Ferner During the rush to get the Nuremberg Tribunals underway, the Soviet delegation wanted the tribunal’s historic decisions to have legitimacy only for the Nazis. U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Robert Jackson, serving
Read More »Proletarian: December 08/January 2009 issue
Cuba special: 50 years of revolution New Year’s Day 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the triumphant day on which the Cuban people ousted the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, so ridding themselves of
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