Daily Archives: May 5, 2009 »
Web Spy Agency Denies Spying
The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has denied that it plans to monitor all web and telephone usage in the UK. The denial comes after an article in the Sunday Times suggested that GCHQ was
Read More »Hypocritical Yahoo hosts human rights summit
By Aharon Etengoff | Chicago (IL) – Yahoo is currently hosting a summit on business and human rights at its Sunnyvale campus. Journalists and social entrepreneurs from Africa, Asia and the Middle East are
Read More »Pilots to boycott ID card trial
AIRLINE pilots will resist the ID card scheme ‘with all legal means possible’, according to their union Balpa. The scheme is to be trialled at Manchester and London City Airports but Balpa said its
Read More »Police facing growing pressure over tactics
By Siân Ruddick | The Metropolitan Police Authority is under growing pressure over its operation around the G20 protests and the death of Ian Tomlinson shortly after he was pushed and assaulted by police
Read More »Senators Accuse Pentagon of Delay in Recovering Millions
The Pentagon has done little to collect at least $100 million in overcharges paid in deals arranged by corrupt former officials of Kellogg Brown & Root, the defense contractor, even though the officials admitted
Read More »Obama administration spearheads wage cuts for American workers
By Patrick Martin | The wage cuts imposed on auto workers at Chrysler and General Motors at the insistence of the Obama administration demonstrate the class strategy that American big business as a whole
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