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Lancaster Activists Remove BNP From City Centre 19 hours, 47 minutes ago Lancaster Antifa | The fascist BNP were sent packing from Lancaster town centre after they set up a stall. A spontaneous demonstration surrounded the BNP fascists and prevented them from handing out leaflets. They were ... |
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US torture claims are unreliable: British lawmakers Saturday, July 19th, 2008 The British government should no longer accept US assurances that it does not use torture, a parliamentary oversight committee said on Sunday in a wide-ranging report looking at London's human rights policy. ... ID cards - compulsory or not? Saturday, July 19th, 2008 By David Meyer | It's not going to be compulsory to carry around ID cards. Honestly. So said Stephen Harrison, policy director at the ID & Passport Service, when asked today at the Westminster eForum on ID cards, surveillance and data protection. Further questioning elicited more ... Reporter Arrested For Trying To Crash Bohemian Grove Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Vanity Fair writer Alex Shoumatoff got himself arrested for crashing Bohemian Grove, a private men's club in northern California for the upper echelon of ... The US will not prosecute Bush Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld will never be tried for war crimes in the US because the country lacks a consensus on torture The US will not prosecute Bush By John McQuaid, guardian.co.uk The evidence is mounting that top US officials - including President George Bush, vice-president ... Antiwar Protesters Added to Database of Terrorist Suspects Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Undercover Maryland state troopers infiltrated three groups advocating peace and protesting the death penalty — attending meetings and sending reports on their activities to U.S. intelligence and military agencies, according to documents released Thursday. The documents show the activities occurred from at least ... PM refuses Iraq troops timetable Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Gordon Brown has said he favours reducing troop numbers in Iraq but would not set an "artificial timetable" during talks with Iraqi leaders. The prime minister also met senior US officials during a surprise visit to the country, ahead of a statement next week on ... Judge rejects attempt to block Guantanamo trial Saturday, July 19th, 2008 A U.S. military judge has rejected another attempt to halt the first Guantanamo war crimes trial. The Navy judge's ruling comes as a civilian judge in Washington considers a separate bid to stop the trial of Salim Hamdan. Hamdan is a former driver for Osama bin Laden. ... |
Guantánamo children Saturday, July 19th, 2008 The Guardian | In a submission to the UN in May, the Pentagon said that no more than eight youths, aged 13 to 17 at time of capture, were held at Guantánamo Bay. But a prisoner list released in 2006 in ... Eulogy For The “Ownership Society” Saturday, July 19th, 2008 By Mike Whitney | The Fed's emergency rescue plan for the financial markets is hopelessly flawed. It's a scattershot approach that doesn't address the real source of the problem; an unregulated, unsustainable structured finance system that emerged in full-force after 2000 and spawned a shadow ... The Absurd and Destructive War on Terror Saturday, July 19th, 2008 I was injured thanks to the government’s ridiculous airport security program last week on a US Air flight from Chicago to Philadelphia. I also saw how pointless the whole thing is, if the supposed goal is really to prevent airline hijackings. First, my injury. Because of ... Rice: US still puts conditions on talks with Iran Saturday, July 19th, 2008 AP News | Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the United States still has conditions for negotiating with Iran even though the Bush administration is sending a senior diplomat to weekend talks with an Iranian nuclear envoy. She said the shift in ... Channel 4 to be censured over controversial climate film Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Watchdog finds documentary was unfair to scientists but did not mislead viewers Owen Gibson, media correspondent, The Guardian The former chief scientist Sir David King and the IPCC complained about Channel 4’s film The Great Global Warming Swindle. Photograph: ... Bush can hold terrorist suspect indefinitely: US court Saturday, July 19th, 2008 A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that President George W. Bush has the power to keep a terrorist suspect jailed indefinitely, but that the detainee has the right to challenge his detention as an "enemy combatant." The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, ... Ashcroft defends waterboarding before House panel Saturday, July 19th, 2008 The controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding has served a "valuable" purpose and does not constitute torture, former Attorney General John Ashcroft told a House committee Thursday. Testifying on the Bush administration's interrogation rules before the House Judiciary Committee, Ashcroft defended the technique while answering a question ... |
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By Mick Meaney - RINF Breaking News | A poll conducted by the World Public Opinion (WPO) has found that over 60% of the population of Great Britain and the United States do not trust their governments. The poll showed ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008 U.S. lawmakers defied a White House veto threat on Wednesday and voted to bar CIA contractors from interrogating suspected terrorists, in the latest clash over detainee treatment in the U.S.-declared war on terrorism. The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives approved the provision in adopting a broad measure to authorize funding of U.S. ... More: Business News |
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
By Ian Cobain | MPs are calling for an investigation into allegations that British intelligence has "outsourced" the torture of British citizens to Pakistani security agencies after hearing accounts of people being abducted and subjected to mistreatment and, in some cases, released without charge. John McDonnell, ... More: Surveillance, Civil Liberties & Human Rights News |
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
By IAN AUSTEN | OTTAWA — The video is blurry and the soundtrack muffled, but the technical shortcomings of the video recordings released Tuesday did not obscure the emotions of Omar Khadr as he was interrogated at the ... More: War & Terrorism News |
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