Daily Archives: February 13, 2009 »
Revealed: Pentagon’s secret prisons, legal loopholes and CIA ‘ghost’ detainees
By Stephen C. Webster Three major human rights organizations have declared the Department of Defense was running secret prisons at Bagram and in Iraq, actively sought ways around the terms of the Geneva conventions
Read More »A Short History of US Government Handouts
By Stephen Lendman Global economies are withering while Washington conceives “Financial Recovery Plan(s) from Hell,” according to economist Michael Hudson in his latest February 11 article. Bankers demand more trillions, “or (they’ll) plunge the
Read More »Poll: Most want inquiry into anti-terror tactics
By Jill Lawrence WASHINGTON — Even as Americans struggle with two wars and an economy in tatters, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds majorities in favor of investigating some of the thorniest unfinished business from
Read More »Student occupations for Gaza spread
By JAMES TWEEDIE STUDENT occupations spread across the country on Thursday in the latest wave of protests against Israel’s siege of Gaza. Angry undergraduates are demanding that their universities cut all ties with Israel
Read More »Bosses to union: You are to blame for dead workers
By PAUL HASTE WORKERS reacted with fury on Thursday after bosses made the incredible claim that unions were to blame for workplace deaths. After the government revealed the failure of a voluntary code intended
Read More »Australia bushfires: the tragic outcome of government neglect
By Richard Phillips As each day brings new details of the terrible human cost of the bush fires which hit Victoria last weekend, evidence mounts that government neglect, the run-down of emergency services and
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