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Police Allowed to Place GPS Tracking on Vehicles – Without a Warrant
A new ruling has given police the right to place GPS tracking on vehicles to track movements, without a warrant. The ruling now applies in California and eight other Western states, and apparently doesn’t
Read More »USA Submits Human Rights Record
“Submitted to the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights last week but made public yesterday, in accordance with the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Process,” State Department spokesman P J Crowley
Read More »Michael Jackson’s Doctor Due in Court
The doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death is due back in court for a scheduling hearing that will determine when prosecutors will publicly present some of their evidence, reports the Associated Press. The judge
Read More »Pharma using Facebook to find human guinea pigs
FORTUNE — Let’s say you’re one of the millions of Facebook users who logs into the site for a minute to reconnect with friends. Maybe you’re taking a break from a big project at
Read More »3 Men Arrested in Connection with Times Square bomb
Three Pakistani men said to have supplied funds to Times Square car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad were arrested in a series of raids as the FBI followed the money trail of the failed attack.
Read More »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 all the more ironic because Obama’s political movement supposedly mastered the new art
Read More »Chomsky: How the Tea Partiers Are Getting Screwed by Their Own Ideology
By Noam Chomsky On Feb. 18, Joe Stack, a 53-year-old computer engineer, crashed his small plane into a building in Austin, Texas, hitting an IRS office, committing suicide, killing one other person and injuring
Read More »US teacher sacked after being filmed beating student
Sherri Davis, a science teacher at Jamie’s House Charter School in Houston, backed 13-year-old Isaiah Johnson into a corner and began beating him while his classmates watched. Janiqua Johnson, one of Isaiah’s classmates, filmed
Read More »Obama: Afghan War Will Worsen Before It Improves
AP The war in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, President Barack Obama warned on Wednesday, but he declared his plan to begin withdrawing U.S. forces next year remains on track. Standing
Read More »NYC bomb threat a classic homegrown
AP The suspected driver in a failed car bombing of Times Square fits the profile of a recent wave of “homegrown” terrorists threatening the America, New York police officials warned Tuesday. The officials said
Read More »Obama: Say Yes to Afghan Peace Talks
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Washington this week, where he’ll be meeting with President Obama on Wednesday. Afghan government officials have said that a top priority for these talks is to win President
Read More »China, US to renew human rights talks
BEIJING (AP) — This week’s resumption of U.S.-China human rights talks after two years will spotlight what critics say is a deterioration in Beijing’s record on legal protections, free speech and civil society. To
Read More »Kagan helped shield Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits
By John Byrne Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court, helped protect the Saudi royal family from lawsuits that sought to hold al Qaeda financiers responsible in the wake of
Read More »Laptop seach and seize will continue at US borders
Cliff Saran The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the US has amended its policy to seize any electronic device brought into the country, in a bid to counter criticisms that the policy infringes
Read More »Lawyers: Ban Bush from Canada for war crimes
Canwest News Service A lawyers’ group has asked the RCMP to bar former U.S. president George W. Bush from entering Canada, citing torture and war crimes committed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Read More »Obama Approves Torture Team
The White House has confirmed that U.S. President Barack Obama has approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators to question key terrorism suspects. White House spokesman Bill Burton said the team will
Read More »Big Brother in the electronic age
WE’RE a big country so I guess it’s understandable that not only is Big Brother watching — but now it’s Big Sister, Big Uncle, Big Aunt, Big Whoever. It’s becom ing a Big Mother
Read More »U.S. carrying out “targeted killings”
Media reports recently exposed efforts by the Bush administration to create a CIA “assassination squad” so secret that former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the agency to keep Congress in the dark about it.
Read More »Bush, Cheney knew they were violating law
Torture instigators George Bush and Dick Cheney should not be allowed to evade prosecution on grounds they acted in good faith on their lawyers’ advice because they told their lawyers what advice to give,
Read More »Obama on slavery
President Obama slowly walked across the grounds of Cape Coast Castle, a slave outpost in Ghana where hundreds of thousands of Africans were shipped as human cargo to a life of bondage in the
Read More »Probe Into Bush Policies Urged
President Barack Obama has been reluctant to probe Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies, but his Democratic allies aren’t likely to let the matters rest. “I’ve always preferred my idea of a commission of inquiry
Read More »Cheney ‘ordered CIA to hide plan’
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney gave direct orders to the CIA to conceal an intelligence programme from Congress, US media reports say. The existence of the programme, set up after 9/11, was hidden for
Read More »Officials Claim Wiretaps Were of Limited Value
While the Bush administration had defended its program of wiretapping without warrants as a vital tool that saved lives, a new government review released Friday said the program’s effectiveness in fighting terrorism was unclear.
Read More »USA license plate cameras
Welcome to Tiburon. Click. Your presence has been noted. The posh and picturesque town that juts into San Francisco Bay is poised to do something unprecedented: use cameras to record the license plate number
Read More »Secret Program Fuels CIA-Congress Dispute
Four months after he was sworn in, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta learned of an intelligence program that had been hidden from Congress since 2001, a revelation that prompted him to immediately cancel the
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