Daily Archives: June 13, 2009 »
Medical marijuana’s legal in his state, but feds sentence medical pot dispenser to jail
Charles Lynch, a medical marijuana provider in the state of California, which has voted consistently to allow what he does, faces a year in federal prison. This after Obama and the new “drug czar”
Read More »Shell’s “Humanitarian” Gesture is Self-Serving
One of the advantages for a corporation in resolving a sensitive lawsuit out of court is that it can proclaim innocence and insist it is settling for other reasons. Royal Dutch Shell has done
Read More »Israeli War Crimes Against Children
Following Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documented the toll on Gaza’s children and published it in May. It did so “in response to the unprecedented number of children
Read More »Iran polls prompt vote rigging allegations
Iran went to the polls today in presidential elections, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seeking a second four-year term. Four candidates were contesting the election, although much power rests with the unelected Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Read More »British Photographers Forced To Play Roulette With Anti- Terror Law
In Britain, cops have the power to search you if you take a picture of a “sensitive” area, but they won’t tell you which areas are “sensitive,” because they’re so “sensitive.” The British Journal
Read More »Torture documents need to be released
Despite its repudiation of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” the Obama administration continues to stifle public scrutiny of how the Bush Justice Department’s strained legal rationale for torture was translated into the mistreatment of suspected terrorists.
Read More »The great big DNA database fishing expedition
In London the Met police have been rounding up and arresting children as young as ten who have committed no crime, for the purpose of getting their DNA on record. A FOI request has
Read More »Ex-Bush lawyer can be sued over torture according to Judge
A prisoner who says he was tortured while being held for nearly four years as a suspected terrorist can sue former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo for coming up with the legal theories that
Read More »Iran election may decide war or peace for Middle East
More than 42 million Iranians are eligible to vote Friday in the presidential election, and long lines were reported around the country’s polling places. Voting has already been extended at least two hours because
Read More »Pentagon Cyber Command threat to civil liberties
The Obama administration’s plan to create a Pentagon Cyber Command to conduct both defensive and offensive cyberwarfare is arousing concern about potential threats to privacy and civil liberties. A new report in the New
Read More »Sri Lankan government interrogate doctors who witnessed war crimes
The Sri Lankan government is continuing to detain and interrogate three doctors—Dr Thurairajah Varatharajah, Dr Thangamuttu Sathyamurthi and Dr V. Shanmugarajah—who risked their lives to provide medical care to thousands of Tamil civilians caught
Read More »Feds ask court to reconsider CIA renditions suit
The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to allow a Boeing Co. subsidiary to be sued for allegedly flying terrorism suspects to secret prisons overseas to
Read More »Thousands of postal workers to strike
Thousands of postal workers in London are set to embark on a 24-hour strike next Friday over an “arbitrary” culling of the workforce by Royal Mail. The Communications Workers Union (CWU) has accused Royal
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