Hugo Chavez’s actions against RCTV are part of his efforts to democratize the media and punish law-breakers.

Four internet communications companies that recently drew fire from Washington D.C. for participating in internet censorship in China announced they are cooperating with human rights groups to develop a common code of conduct for business dealings abroad.

If only money could buy peace - or was the £4bn handed out to Lebanon’s Prime Minister in Paris yesterday supposed to help him defeat America’s Hizbollah enemies in Beirut’s increasingly savage street battles?

The director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, put himself at odds with the home secretary and Downing Street last night by denying that Britain is caught up in a “war on terror” and calling for a “culture of legislative restraint” in passing laws to deal with terrorism.

Sevket Kazan, Deputy of the Saadet Party (SP) of Turkey, argued that the CIA and Mossad planned and organised the murder against the Armenian Turkish journalist Hrant Dink.

A new federal program for livestock tracking will benefit big corporations, threaten small producers and do nothing to protect consumer health.

ONE THING is clear about the 2008 Democratic primary: there will be little room for reality. The media story line is already being driven by a mythology that in more trivial times would only be annoying but, given America’s collapse as a constitutional society and as a respected nation, merely adds to the extraordinary danger the country faces today.

A group of Lancastrians have become so concerned at the many anomalies surrounding the official story of the terror attacks of September 11th 2001, that they have invited the Chairman of the ‘Britain and Ireland 9/11 Truth Campaign’, to give a presentation at Korners Bar (part of The Farmers Arms), Lancaster City Centre on Wednesday 24th January.

British expert Professor Lawrie Challis made the observation as he prepares to undertake a mass study of long-term phone users amid fears they are at greater risk of brain cancer

THE intelligence agencies are monitoring every Muslim who travels from Britain to Mecca on pilgrimage in a wider effort to piece together intelligence on suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist activity.
A senior Whitehall official has disclosed that the operation targeting trips to the holy city in Saudi Arabia by more than 100,000 British Muslims is part of a trawl by MI5 and MI6 for information about movements of suspected terrorists.

Tony Blair faced criticism from the Opposition and his own backbenches today after deciding to skip a rare parliamentary debate about his strategy in Iraq and the future of the Middle East.

The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence rejected yesterday the Bush administration’s contention that it had brought the National Security Agency’s controversial domestic eavesdropping program into compliance with the law, saying he wants strict new rules requiring the government to obtain a separate warrant every time it places a wiretap on a U.S. resident.

Closed circuit television pictures released on Tuesday showed panic erupting on a London underground train when prosecutors say a bomber tried to blow it up two weeks after 2005 attacks killed 52 commuters.

The Government was accused of “criminal negligence” today as judges and magistrates were urged to jail only the most dangerous and persistent criminals in a bid to ease overcrowding.