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Psychologists’ E-Mails Stir Interrogation Issue
By Farah Stockman | WASHINGTON – Newly public e-mails between psychologists involved in the Bush administration’s controversial detention program have fueled a fierce debate over whether mental-health professionals should give advice on warfare, and
Read More »British Labour’s divisive Equality Bill
The government’s Equality Bill has been condemned as “socialism in one clause” by Britain’s right wing and a “landmark” in overcoming inequalities by the liberal media and the trade unions. It is neither. Far
Read More »Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion
By Noah Shachtman | The Pentagon wants to spend just over $50 billion on classified programs next year, newly-released Defense Department budget documents reveal. “That’s the largest-ever sum,” according to Aviation Week’s Bill Sweetman,
Read More »Pentagon eyes new anti-missile technology
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is redirecting its missile defence efforts by winding down multibillion-dollar programmes aimed at destroying enemy missiles very soon after they take off. The move away from “boost-phase” intercept programmes was announced
Read More »Documents shoot holes in Cheney’s theories on torture
What a difference an election makes. Our national position has now shifted from “we don’t torture” to “we don’t torture anymore.” Let us, then, disabuse ourselves of former President George W. Bush’s notion that
Read More »22 protesters arrested at Obama speech
Former Illinois U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes and 21 other protesters were arrested this morning when they refused to leave the Notre Dame campus during a protest of President Obama’s upcoming commencement address there,
Read More »Groups fights bill that keeps biolab secrets
By Laura Elder | Open government advocates are lining up to fight a bill they say would cripple the public’s right to information about deadly germs like those studied at the Galveston National Laboratory.
Read More »Afghanistan: NATO Should ‘Come Clean’ on White Phosphorus
NATO forces in Afghanistan should immediately release the results of their investigation into a March 14, 2009, incident in which an 8-year-old girl in Kapisa province was burned by white phosphorus munitions, Human Rights
Read More »MP’s Expenses: Two words show their claims ‘were made within the rules’ are lies
Ministers are quaking in their boots. Today, the Daily Telegraph printed the report into their investigation of the expenses of UK Members of Parliament, without the big black lines through them that MPs have
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