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Iraq Death Toll Over 100,000
RINF NEWS The civilian death toll in Iraq is now over 100,000 as the US military confirm that at least 4,313 servicemen and women have been killed since 2003. The British military has reported 179 deaths.
Read More »MPs exploited expenses “for personal gain”
RINF NEWS MPs are again under fire, this time from Sir Christopher Kelly, the head of an inquiry into Commons expenses. Opening the Committee on Standards in Public Life’s first evidence session, Sir Christopher
Read More »Iran Protesters Start Hacking
RINF NEWS As protesters take to the streets, both sides of the debate have taken to the the Internet. Twitter and other blogs are being used to direct users to a number of sites and tools that encourage
Read More »Craig Murry on Iran
For me, any sensible discussion of Iran must accept a number of facts. I will set these out as Set A and Set B. Both sets are true. But ideologues of the right routinely
Read More »Iranian protesters chase police away from BBC crew
Brave protesters protect journalists so that the world can see what’s really happening inside Iran (incident begins about 2 minutes in): Interestingly, conservatives Richard Perle, Frank Gaffney, and Mitt Romney are saying that Ahmadinejad
Read More »Transferring money – The next cellphone trick
In an unprecedented show of collaboration, Canada’s three main wireless companies will unveil a service Monday that will let people exchange money through their cellphones. The move is the first step in creating electronic
Read More »Anti-arms trade protester acquitted
It was smashing news this week for one anti-arms trade protester. Chris Bluemel, a music teacher from Southampton, was acquitted last Friday of assaulting Police – despite admitting to punching a cop in the
Read More »The Navy’s New 100 KiloWatt Laser Weapons
The Office of Naval Research has awarded Raytheon a year-long contract to develop the preliminary design of a 100 kilowatt experimental Free Electron Laser (FEL) for naval warships. A FEL uses superconducting electron accelerators
Read More »The American Empire Is Bankrupt
This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals
Read More »Sri Lankan government threatens Tamil parliamentarians
The Sri Lankan government last week threatened to strip four Tamil parliamentarians of their seats by turning down their request for leave. Coming in the wake of the army’s defeat of the separatist Liberation
Read More »EU “disturbed” by Iraq executions, calls for freeze
The European Union protested against reported executions in Iraq on Monday and called on Baghdad to resume a moratorium on the death penalty. “The European Union is deeply disturbed at reports that in recent
Read More »New Evidence Of CIA Torture Program
NEW YORK – The CIA today released still-highly redacted documents in which Guantánamo Bay prisoners describe abuse and torture they suffered in CIA custody. The documents were released as part of an American Civil
Read More »ID cards ‘will not protect UK against terrorism’
Lord Steyn will say the controversial scheme is “unnecessary”, un-British and should be scrapped. It comes as a senior Tory attacks the Government for not safeguarding our right to privacy and demand a reversal
Read More »Pentagon May Keep Afghan Death Probe Secret
In early May, a series of US air strikes in multiple villages in the Farah Province of Afghanistan killed 140 civilians, by far the single deadliest incident since the 2001 invasion. The official story
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