• No Random Drug Tests, No Foodstamps

  Via Don’t Tase Me, Bro!  Call it the Great Recession meets the War on Drugs. West Virginia ponders law mandating compulsory...

   

• Council worker feared she was being spied on

  Christine Laird thought her emails were being spied on while she was managing director of Cheltenham Borough Council and...

   

• Spain to stop investigations of Israeli war crimes

  A day after a Spanish court ordered an investigation into an assassination of a Palestinian militant in 2002, the Spanish...

   

• Guantanamo Bay comes to the UK

  By JAMES EAGLE REFUGEE campaigners have blown the lid off a detention scandal which has been dubbed “Britain’s...

   

• Saddam-Qaeda Conspiracy Theorist Surfaces Writing Iraq Reports For The Pentagon

  By Justin Elliott It’s a truism that neoconservatives have a talent for failing upward: for repeatedly getting important...

   

• Bush officials authorized torture of US citizen, lawyers say

  By John Byrne, RawStory Attorneys for US citizen Jose Padilla — who was convicted of material support for terrorist...

   

• Tony Blair admits daily doubts about the war in Iraq

  By James Kirkup Mr Blair, now an international envoy to the Middle East, spoke of his “sense of responsibility”...

   

• POA delegates scorn Straw’s big bribe

  By ADRIAN ROBERTS FURIOUS prison officers urged their colleagues to reject a £50 million bribe from Justice Secretary Jack...

   

• Bush okayed torture to outwit defense lawyers

  By Stephen C. Webster It comes as no surprise that the Bush administration had little love for lawyers. Long before the “Attorneygate”...

   

• Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

  Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian...

   

• Iraq to Deny New License To Blackwater Mercenary Firm

  U.S. Embassy’s Preferred Contractor Accused of Killings By Ernesto Londoño and Qais Mizher, Washington Post  The...

   

• Loophole allows terrorist detentions

  By Eli Lake  President Obama’s executive order closing CIA “black sites” contains a little-noticed exception...

   

• Marijuana Reform Is Part of the Progressive Agenda

  So Why Are Obama’s Drug Cops Already Making Pot Raids? By Paul Armentano  Pot-reform activists have swarmed Obama’s...

   

• Military seeks better use of finger, eye scans

  By LOLITA C. BALDOR WASHINGTON — On the front lines in Iraq, U.S. troops can scan someone’s eye or finger to...

   

• Economic Policy Could Scuttle Obama’s Good Start

  By Robert Scheer  Only a week into the new administration, and yet there is this nagging thought that Barack Obama’s legacy...

   

• Israeli Troops Killed Gaza Children Carrying White Flag, witnesses say

  McClatchy Newspapers – EZBT ABED RABBO, Gaza Strip — Nasser Abu Freeh was one of the first to see the Israeli soldiers...

   

• Study reveals illegal zionist expansion

  ISRAELI anti-war group Peace Now released a new study on Tuesday which revealed that zionists continued to expand illegal...

   

• Brown keeps silent on Iraq ruling

  By ADRIAN ROBERTS THE government held its tongue on Wednesday over the order to release the 2003 Iraq war Cabinet minutes. But...

   

• British government to spread ID cards message to school children

    The Home Secretary will be spreading the message on identity cards among schoolchildren today.   Jacqui Smith is meeting...

   

• Criminalizing Policy Differences

  By David Swanson President Obama wants to avoid criminalizing policy differences and avoid partisan witch hunts. This is...

   

• Liberal Democrats Slam New Cannabis Law

  Euro-MP Chris Davies has branded the Government’s decision to upgrade cannabis from Class C to Class B status as ludicrous. The...

   

• ACLU Demands Eavesdropping, Torture Memos From White House

  By David KravetsThe American Civil Liberties Union is hoping a kinder, gentler Obama administration will disclose secret...

   

• Investigate US torture and prosecute those responsible

  Considerable efforts are being made in various quarters to cover up the record of US torture and prevent the prosecution...

   

• Amy Goodman: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail

  Karl Rove recently described George W. Bush as a book lover, writing, “There is a myth perpetuated by Bush critics that...

   

• Iran moves to hold war crimes tribunal

  The Iranian cabinet introduces a bill to take action on individuals accused of war crimes amid a seeming ceasefire in the...