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Get Land For Free And Help Greenpeace Stop Airport Expansion
Greenpeace are giving away plots of land to make it more difficult for the government to expand Heathrow airport. To help them sign up here http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/climate/airplot You’ll be joining beneficial owners who’ve already signed-up including
Read More »Israel tells aid ship for Gaza to leave
Israeli warships have ordered an Iranian vessel carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza to leave the area, an Iranian aid official was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars News Agency on Wednesday.
Read More »Cheney hints at pardon for President Bush
BNN | With the Bush administration in its final days questions are being asked whether the president will be investigated over a number of concerns. Thoseconcerns include the legitimacy, legality, and constitutionality of the
Read More »Fate of Guantánamo Detainees Still Murky
By William Fisher | Human rights groups are hailing reports that President-elect Barack Obama plans to issue an executive order on his first full day in office directing the closing of the Guantánamo Bay
Read More »War crimes in Gaza? Let’s look closer to home
By Phil Shiner | As reported this week, there are repeated calls for the UK and the international community to condemn Israel’s disproportionate and, therefore, illegal attacks on the civilian population of Gaza. At
Read More »Secrecy and the Bush administration
Even in its last months, the insulated Bush administration made it harder for the public to access records. In the litany of violations of public trust and accountability by the Bush administration, a last
Read More »Don’t sleepwalk into Big Brother surveillance, schools warned
By STEPHEN NAYSMITH | Schools which employ biometric technologies such as fingerprint patterning to manage libraries or dinner queues should put surveillance and privacy issues on the curriculum, according to university experts. An analysis
Read More »Canada complicit with Israeli war crimes
By Jim Miles | Canada lives in the unfortunate position of being under the thrall of U.S. media for most its information and cultural relevance. At the same time, its own media, apart from
Read More »Israel Bans Arab Parties From Election
By a margin of 26-3, the Israeli Central Elections Committee decided to ban the Balad Party from running in next month’s election. By a margin of 21-8, they also banned the United Arab List-Ta’al
Read More »Don’t Give the Banks Another $350 Billion
By Matt Rothschild | Why in the world should we be giving the banks another $350 billion? They caused this financial crisis in the first place. Then Bush and Paulson just threw billions of dollars
Read More »Asked about WMDs, Bush grins: ‘Things didn’t go according to plan’
By John Byrne | Abu Ghraib a ‘disappointment’ A confident George W. Bush took the podium Monday for what is likely the last press conference of his presidency, fielding a panoply of questions on
Read More »No End in Sight as Gaza Toll Passes 900
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni rejected the notion that the United Nations could urge her government to end its ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, saying only Israel gets to decide when it will
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