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Britain’s Detention Regime Causes Devastating Impact
Britain’s Control Orders And Detention Regime Cause Devastating Impact On Families, Report Reveals The Institute of Race Relations has published a new report on the devastating impact on family life of Britain’s anti-terrorist control
Read More »Scottish Ministers ‘completely opposed’ to ID cards
The Scottish Government today denounced Westminster plans for identity cards as “unacceptable”. In a strongly-worded letter to the Home Office, community safety minister Fergus Ewing said the Scottish Government remained “completely opposed” to the
Read More »Rep: Punish Those Who Lie Us Into War
U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., has introduced legislation that would impose fines or prison time on presidents or executive-branch officials who “knowingly and willfully” mislead Congress to gain authorization to use U.S. military forces. Jones,
Read More »Australian troops kill 5 Afghan children
By Brendan Nicholson AUSTRALIAN special forces soldiers have killed five children in an attack on a compound in Afghanistan. The tragedy has triggered a strong warning from the Afghan Government that civilian deaths are
Read More »Iran Next Target, Warns Israeli Diplomat
The Age A SENIOR Israeli diplomat has warned that Israel is ready to launch a military offensive against Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. In an interview with The Age, Dan Gillerman,
Read More »The Banality of Corporate Evil
By Phil Mattera Our culture worships spunky small businesses and entrepreneurship. Stewart Parnell epitomized that ideal and was living the good life in Lynchburg, Virginia until last month, when his Peanut Corporation of America
Read More »US intelligence chief: World capitalist crisis poses greatest threat
In testimony before the Senate Committee on Intelligence Thursday, Washington’s new director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, warned that the deepening world capitalist crisis posed the paramount threat to US national security and warned
Read More »Menezes killers won’t be prosecuted
By PAUL HASTE THE family of Jean Charles de Menezes slammed the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision on Friday to let the Brazilian migrant worker’s police killers go free as “shocking and morally reprehensible.” After
Read More »Blackwater tries to rebrand itself
Blackwater Sheds Name, Shifts Focus By Dana Hedgpeth Blackwater Worldwide, a private security company whose work in Iraq was plagued by trouble, said yesterday that it is changing its name to Xe as it
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