Daily Archives: January 31, 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
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