• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• The Qassam rockets myths

  leninology.blogspot.com  I warned you months ago: the magic word is ‘Sderot’. Any amount of barbarism can be...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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,...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• Students criticise ID cards

  ID cards for foreign students have been opposed by the University of Nottingham Students’ Union. All new international...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...