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Soldier suicides up to 56 in 2009
As many as 13 soldiers are believed to have killed themselves in March, bringing the number of reported soldier suicides this year to 56, officials announced April 10. None of the March cases under
Read More »Fronting up to fascism
Hope Not Hate, the anti-racist campaign group, faces perhaps its toughest challenge to date in its bid to prevent the fascist BNP gaining seats in the coming European elections. The elections are a key
Read More »UN rebuke on racism conference boycott
TOP UN officials have slammed “a handful” of Western countries for boycotting a UN conference on racism as the meeting kicked off in Geneva on Monday. One hundred and three countries are participating in
Read More »Police threatened G20 activists with Tasers
By Justin Davenport, Martin Bentham and Kiran Randhawa | SCOTLAND Yard today admitted that Territorial Support Group officers pointed Taser stun guns in a raid on protesters connected with the G20 demonstration. Two new
Read More »Amnesty International Calls on Chinese Authorities to End Harassment, Beating of Human Rights Activist’s Wife
WASHINGTON – April 20 – Amnesty International calls on the Shangdong authorities to stop the continuing harassment of Yuan Weijing, the wife of imprisoned legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who has been under virtual house
Read More »The Torturers Among Us
By Matt Welch | Torture, as the former vice-president’s [recent] words suggest, is a critical issue in the present of our politics—and not only because of ongoing investigations by Senate committees, or because of
Read More »FBI database use to remain secret
Despite a pledge to open government, the Obama administration has endorsed a Bush-era decision to keep secret key details of an FBI computer database that allows agents and analysts to search a billion documents
Read More »Britain Sleep Walks Into a Police State as Political Dissent is Criminalised
Julie Hyland writes: “From foul deeds endless tragedy arises,” the World Socialist Web Site wrote, commenting on the state execution of innocent Brazilian worker, Jean Charles de Menezes, by plainclothes policemen on a London
Read More »RIPA review proves snoopers’ charter got out of hand
Commenting on Government review into the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “This consultation is a tacit admission by the Government that its surveillance society has
Read More »Labour is stifling the right to protest
The news that government officials have been passing intelligence on climate change activists to a power company serves to underline the unhealthy closeness between big business and the British government during the Labour years.
Read More »SEO / Internet marketing zine exposes marketing secrets
A SEO & Internet marketing zine has launched a new free video series exposing some of the secret methods that big online retailers use to snare in new customers and get them spending in
Read More »Judge rejects bid to derail wiretap challenge
A San Francisco federal judge rejected on Friday the Obama administration’s attempt to derail a challenge to former President George W. Bush’s electronic surveillance program by withholding a critical wiretap document. President Obama’s Justice
Read More »Spanish judge keeps Guantanamo probe alive
A Spanish judge considering possible criminal action against six former Bush administration officials for torture at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay defied pressure to drop the case Friday. But Judge Baltasar Garzon, internationally
Read More »Police ‘ignored warnings’ that tactics will kill
Authorities were warned three months before the death of Ian Tomlinson that someone would be killed if a wave of savage attacks by police on demonstrators was allowed to continue, the Morning Star can
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