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Breaking NewsWorldwide Support for Free MediaFriday, May 2nd, 2008
By Mick Meaney - RINF | A new major survey of world nations has found the majority of people support a free media and strongly object to government control on both traditional and Internet news organisations.
The poll was conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org and involved 18,122 respondents in 20 of the world's largest nations including the United States, Great Britain, China, Russia, India, Egypt, ...
Osama bin Laden’s driver walks out on Guantanamo trialWednesday, April 30th, 2008 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - AP | Osama bin Laden's former driver walked out on his war-crimes tribunal Tuesday, saying he did not believe justice was possible at the U.S. military base where he has been held for nearly six years.
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni, is the fourth alleged al-Qaida operative at Guantanamo Bay to refuse to participate in America's first U.S. ...
US Oil Major Complicit in Abuses - Rights LobbyWednesday, April 30th, 2008 By Marwaan Macan-Markar - IPS | An environmental group is warning U.S. energy giant Chevron to clean up its act in Burma or face legal proceedings where the multinational’s links to gross human rights violations in the military-ruled country could be exposed.
There has been little relief for villagers living in the Yadana pipeline region in southern Burma since the Chevron Corporation ...
MI5 accused of colluding in torture of terrorist suspectsTuesday, April 29th, 2008 By Ian Cobain | Officers of the Security Service, MI5, are being accused of "outsourcing" the torture of British citizens to a notorious Pakistani intelligence agency in an attempt to obtain information about terrorist plots and to secure convictions against al-Qaida suspects.
A number of British terrorism suspects who have been arrested in Pakistan at the ...
Syrian ambassador says CIA fabricated photosSaturday, April 26th, 2008 Reuters | Syria's ambassador to the United States said Friday that the CIA fabricated pictures allegedly taken inside a secret Syrian nuclear reactor and predicted that in coming weeks the U.S. story about the site would implode from within.
"The photos presented to me yesterday were ludicrous, laughable," Ambassador Imad Moustapha told reporters at his Washington residence.
He refused to say what the ...
Police Taser Claims Another LifeSaturday, April 26th, 2008 By Shamus Toomey - Chicago Sun-Times |
A 24-year-old Lake View man died Thursday, five days after suburban Cincinnati police shocked him with a Taser outside a bar there.
Kevin Piskura, 24, of the 800 block of West Fletcher, had been hospitalized since the incident at 2 a.m. Saturday outside a bar in Oxford, Ohio, and he died Thursday afternoon at University Hospital in ...
NY police cleared in 50-bullet wedding day shootingSaturday, April 26th, 2008 Reuters | Three New York City detectives were found not guilty on Friday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man killed in a hail of 50 bullets on his wedding day, prompting angry reactions and a federal review of the case.
A New York state judge cleared two police officers of manslaughter and other charges and a third of reckless endangerment ...
Iraqi oil pipeline blown up againSaturday, April 26th, 2008 BBC News | An oil pipeline south of Baghdad has been blown up, wounding at least eight security guards, Iraqi police say. The blast, near the town of Iskandiriya, caused a large fire and disrupted the flow of crude oil to refineries in the south of Iraq.
The pipeline carries fuel south from Baghdad's Doura oil refinery.
It was the second time in the ...
Pentagon Propaganda Worse Than We ThoughtSaturday, April 26th, 2008 By John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton - PR Watch |
David Barstow of the New York Times has written the first installment in what is already a stunning exposé of the Bush Administration's most powerful propaganda weapon used to sell and manage the war on Iraq: the embedding of military propagandists directly into the TV networks as on-air commentators. We and others have ...
China police “shoot two” in village land protestTuesday, April 22nd, 2008 HONG KONG (Reuters) |
Chinese police opened fire during a clash over land use between villagers and employees of China's number two gold miner, killing two and wounding more than 20, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Tuesday.
Beijing, terrified of social unrest ahead of the Olympics in August, has cracked down on recent protests over the arbitrary use of land by powerful local interests.
Ming ...
Prince William allegedly misused copterMonday, April 21st, 2008 UPI -- The propriety of Britain's Prince William using a military helicopter to visit his girlfriend is being questioned, a political party spokesman said.
Liberal Democrat defense spokesman Nick Harvey said the accusations the prince used Kate Middleton's backyard for a two-hour series of spins, turns, landings and takeoffs will undoubtedly be seen as a public relations nightmare for the 25-year-old member of ...
Canada Likely to Label Plastic Ingredient ‘Toxic’Thursday, April 17th, 2008
By IAN AUSTEN
OTTAWA — The Canadian government is said to be ready to declare as toxic a chemical widely used in plastics for baby bottles, beverage and food containers as well as linings in food cans.
A Nalgene brand bottle, which is made with bisphenol-a.
A person with knowledge of the government’s chemical review program spoke ...
Defiant Brown defends his economic recordTuesday, April 15th, 2008
By Andrew Porter, Robert Winnett and Myra Butterworth
Gordon Brown has been forced to defend his premiership and in particular his economic record as he faced mounting criticism over the credit crisis.
As Britain’s biggest mortgage lenders snubbed his calls to cut the cost of borrowing, the Prime Minister gave a series of interviews to insist he was only "starting" the job.
Amid ...
Benedict to Confront Skeptics, Scandal in U.S. TripTuesday, April 15th, 2008
By Nadine Elsibai
Pope Benedict XVI has a lot of catching up to do with the U.S. and its 69 million Roman Catholics as he begins his first official visit to the country.
The trip marks the first by a pope to the U.S. since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the American invasion of Iraq, and the revelations that, over a span ...
AP poll: Bush public approval at new lowThursday, April 10th, 2008
WASHINGTON - Public approval of President Bush has dipped to a new low in the Associated Press-Ipsos poll, driven by dissatisfaction with his handling of the economy.
A survey released Thursday showed 28 percent approve of the overall job Bush is doing. That was statistically tied with his previous low in the poll of 30 percent last month and in February.
Only 27 percent are happy with his job on the ...
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