Monthly Archives: January 2009 »
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 random drug tests for anyone applying for food stamps or unemployment benefits. The
Read More »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 government has said it will cancel the investigation, and change the law to prevent
Read More »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 Guantanamo.” Hundreds of immigrants are being locked up indefinitely at the whim of a brutal and
Read More »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 things wrong and not seeing their careers suffer – for, in fact, being handed new opportunities
Read More »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 activities in 2007 — say that high-level Bush Administration officials knew their client was being
Read More »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” over the deaths of soldiers and civilians since the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Read More »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 Straw on Thursday which they warned would lead to job cuts and downgrading of work.
Read More »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” scandal developed around the firing of nine US Attorneys in his second
Read More »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 Territory (OPT) and Continue to Impose a Total Siege on the Gaza Strip A Palestinian farmer
Read More »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 Iraqi government has informed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that it will not issue a new operating license
Read More »Loophole allows terrorist detentions
By Eli Lake President Obama’s executive order closing CIA “black sites” contains a little-noticed exception that allows the spy agency to continue to operate temporary detention facilities abroad. The provision illustrates that the president’s
Read More »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 Change.gov, and huge majorities voted for pot reform in election ’08, but no change yet from
Read More »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 try to determine if he is a potential enemy or has been connected
Read More »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 as they entered this pastoral Gaza neighborhood overlooking the Israeli border on Jan.
Read More »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 West Bank settlements in 2008. According to the group, construction began on 1,518 settler structures.
Read More »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 peace campaigners insisted that warmongering new Labour ministers should be “brought to
Read More »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 students before attending a police presentation on combating gang-related crime in Manchester. She is
Read More »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 Liberal Democrat said the change took no account of evidence, ignored expert advice,
Read More »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 documents detailing the legal basis for the previous administration’s rationale for supporting torture and warrantless surveillance. The
Read More »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 of military and Central Intelligence Agency torturers and those higher up who ordered them
Read More »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 he would rather burn a book than read one.” There will be many
Read More »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 Gaza Strip. The cabinet of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad laid out details of
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