Daily Archives: March 11, 2009 »
1 in 50 Children in US is Homeless
By Cynthia Hubert | In and out of classrooms, sleeping in shelters, shielded by parents, homeless children can seem invisible to society at large. A national study released Monday finds that one in 50
Read More »Phorm is like a “TV camera in your room”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has compared BT’s decision to roll out Phorm as like “allowing them to put a television camera in your room”. Sir Tim was speaking at the House of Commons, during a
Read More »More than 1,000 UK police have criminal records
More than 1,000 serving police officers in Britain have criminal records, figures obtained under freedom of information laws showed on Wednesday. Convictions of the 1,063 officers include 77 for violence, 36 for theft and
Read More »Detailed Report On Patriot Act Abuses
The American Civil Liberties Union released a comprehensive report today examining widespread abuses that have occurred under the USA Patriot Act, a law that was rushed through Congress just 45 days after September 11.
Read More »Iran lacks nuclear bomb fuel: US officials
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iran has yet to decide whether to build a nuclear bomb and currently lacks the weapons-grade highly enriched uranium needed to do so, top US intelligence officials told lawmakers on Tuesday. But
Read More »U.N. report says U.S. rendition policy broke international law
By Julie Sell | LONDON - A U.N. expert is accusing the United States and some of its allies of breaching international law for the so-called extraordinary renditions and subsequent alleged torture of terrorism suspects
Read More »Pentagon knowingly exposed troops to cancer-causing chemicals, document shows
By John Byrne | A newly leaked military document appears to show the Pentagon knowingly exposed US troops to toxic chemicals that cause cancer, while publicly downplaying the risks exposure might cause. The document,
Read More »Obama lays out Afghanistan war strategy
By James Cogan | The desperation at the heart of the Obama administration’s plans for escalating the war in Afghanistan was laid bare in the president’s interview with the New York Times last Friday.
Read More »Public ‘ready for a radical new agenda’
NEW Labour politicians are spectacularly “out of touch” with voters’ demands for nationalisation, a new poll reveals on Wednesday. A TNS poll commissioned by supporters of the People’s Charter for Change shows that a
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