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Mainstream Media Profits Plunge
The bigger newspapers are, the harder their profits fell in the last five years, according to newly revised data provided Monday by the Inland Press Association. Profits fell 100.1% since 2004 at newspapers with
Read More »The Obama justice system
Spencer Ackerman yesterday attended a Senate hearing at which the DOD’s General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, testified. As Ackerman highlighted, Johnson actually said that even for those detainees to whom the Obama administration deigns to give a
Read More »BNP email shows party is ashamed of itself
In an email to members and supporters, party chairman Nick Griffin told them to “try and avoid” owning up to being BNP supporters when writing to complain about the treatment of two activists. An
Read More »UN war crimes inquiry on Gaza winds up hearings
UN war crimes investigators yesterday wound up four days of public hearings about Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip after taking testimony from both Israelis and Palestinians. Richard Goldstone, a former chief UN war
Read More »The increase of the surveillance society
Following the 9/11 and 7/7 terrorist attacks, there has been an exponential increase in Britain’s surveillance: currently, Britain has a quarter of the world’s security surveillance cameras with around four million cameras in use
Read More »NO2ID: ID Cards are not ‘voluntary’
Readers may be aware that the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, has announced that the planned ID cards will be “voluntary”, and that no-one will have to carry one. However, the Government is still pressing
Read More »Government burying ID card costs in passports
The Conservatives have accused the government of burying the cost of ID cards in a hike in the price of passports. Yesterday the government announced an increase in the price of a 10-year adult
Read More »How to Trap a Torture Judge
It’s a problem that Jay Bybee is a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. How can he serve as a judge when he seriously violated the laws against inhumane treatment of detainees
Read More »UN Chief Speaks Out Against Lack of Human Rights
Using the power of his office, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon achieved a rare diplomatic feat during his recent visit to military-ruled Burma. He broke a taboo by delivering a public speech about the lack
Read More »MI5 accused of bribes for silence
Britain’s first terror convict has accused MI5 of trying to bribe him to drop torture charges against them. Rangzieb Ahmed, who was born in Rochdale, Yorkshire, was found guilty in October 2008 of directing
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