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William Hague represents Conservative-Liberal Democrat government in Washington
Foreign secretary William Hague will represent the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat government in the US today as he makes...
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Obama vs. the iPad
President Obama’s disdain for new media has become so consistent that it is hard to dismiss as mere posturing. This is...
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What Does Does Facebook-McDonalds Deal Mean?
By Rick Whiting, CRN A reported deal with fast-food giant McDonald’s could mean that Facebook is setting itself up to compete...
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New York Police Defuse Car Bomb in Times Square
Tourists were evacuated from Time Square and the surrounding area as police officers dismantled a car bomb, which was discovered...
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US cybersecurity plan poses new war threats
By Tom Eley | President Barack Obama announced on Friday the creation of a new “cyber czar” position. The Cybersecurity...
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Obama Nominates Polluter Lawyer To Run Environment Division
President Barack Obama has nominated a lawyer for the nation’s largest toxic polluters to run the enforcement of the nation’s...
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High court rejects claims against Ashcroft
By Joan Biskupic | WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Monday threw out a Pakistani man’s civil rights...
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KBR, Halliburton Accused in Investor Suit of ‘Reign of Terror’
By Cary O’Reilly | KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co., two of the largest contractors to the U.S. military, were accused by...
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The Politics of Excusing Torture In The Name of National Security
Allow me to share some analysis about the way things work in Washington. President Obama’s flip-flop on his agreement...
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CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents
The CIA claims the integrity of a special prosecutor’s criminal investigation into the destruction of 92 interrogation...
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How U.S. Officials Circumvented the Bill of Rights
By Jacob G. Hornberger | In another embrace of President Bush’s war-on-terrorism policies, President Obama has announced...
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Suspected war criminal to lead U.S. forces in Afghanistan
On July 22 2006, Human Rights Watch issued a report titled “No blood, no foul” about American torture practices at three...
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Senate Hears Testimony On Torture Policy
A key Senate subcommittee is set to hear testimony today on the torture policies of the Bush administration. The hearing,...
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Populism is Not a Style, It’s a People’s Rebellion Against Corporate Power
When I lived in Washington, DC, in the 1970s, I got a call from a friend of mine who worked for the Congressional Research...
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Congress Resists Guantánamo Releases
As lawmakers amped up the outcry against releasing Guantánamo “terrorists in our neighborhoods,” France agreed...
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Memos shed light on CIA use of sleep deprivation torture
By Greg Miller | Reporting from Washington — As President Obama prepared last month to release secret memos on the...
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‘Smart’ cameras doing job of human eyes
The surveillance cameras at Big Y, a Massachusetts grocery chain, are not just passively recording customers and staff. They’re...
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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...
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Pentagon eyes new anti-missile technology
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is redirecting its missile defence efforts by winding down multibillion-dollar programmes aimed...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Pelosi caught in lie over CIA torture report
By Bob Turner | Washington – A report by the Central Intelligence Agency revealed that now Speaker of the House, Rep....
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Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Guantanamo Cases
A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some authored by the prisoners themselves, could be...
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USA using Patriot Act against its own citizens
Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby’s bedroom in his mother’s Granville County home is nothing, if not patriotic....




