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Contributions & GuestsExtradition of Paramilitary Chiefs - a Blow to TruthWednesday, May 14th, 2008 By Constanza Vieira | Fourteen former paramilitary chiefs were quietly extradited from Colombia to the United States before dawn on Tuesday on drug trafficking charges, in a move that drew criticism from human rights experts.
The militia chiefs were safe from extradition as long as they respected the 2005 "justice and peace law" that governed the demobilisation of the far-right ...
Guantánamo Has Backfired DreadfullyWednesday, May 14th, 2008 By George Monbiot | When we learned last week that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi had blown himself up in Mosul in northern Iraq, the US government presented this as a vindication of its policies. Al-Ajmi was a former inmate of the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay. The Pentagon says his attack on Iraqi soldiers shows both that it was ...
Executions sought for 9/11 defendantsWednesday, May 14th, 2008 By Carol J. Williams | The head of the Pentagon's war crimes tribunal approved death penalty charges Tuesday against five alleged Sept. 11 conspirators, including confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
Prosecution of a sixth suspect, so-called 20th hijacker Mohammed al-Qahtani, was dropped.
The tribunal's convening authority, Susan Crawford, referred to trial the cases ...
How Pot Became DemonizedWednesday, May 14th, 2008 The following is an excerpt from "Dying to Get High" by Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb (NYU Press, 2008). (c) 2008 NYU Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.
For many modern critics, the concept of "medical marijuana" is a contradiction in terms. Medicine is standardized, synthetic, and pure; marijuana involves the unrefined and promiscuous coupling of more than four hundred ...
Human rights ‘loopholes’ condemnedTuesday, May 13th, 2008 PA | A senior police officer has launched a scathing attack on the use of the Human Rights Act by murderers and rapists to protect themselves from UK law. Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Gregg said dangerous criminals were trying to use the legislation to complain about their own human rights being breached.
Mr Gregg was speaking out just days before ...
Massive earthquake in China kills at least 10,000Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 By John Chan | At least 10,000 people were killed when an earthquake of 7.8 magnitude on the Richter scale hit the south-western Chinese province of Sichuan at 2:28 p.m. on Monday. The death toll is climbing continuously as bodies are pulled from the rubble of buildings and rescue workers arrive at new scenes of devastation.
Tremors rocked other parts of ...
Weapons Were Not Made In Iran After AllTuesday, May 13th, 2008 In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all.
According to a ...
The Culture of CapitalismTuesday, May 13th, 2008 By Jonathan Rutherford | We are living through an age of transition. The new co-exists with the old. We can identify political, economic and cultural elements of this change, but we do not yet have a way of describing the kind of society we are living in. The great explanatory frameworks of political economy and sociology inherited from the industrial ...
US drops 9/11 ‘hijacker’ chargesTuesday, May 13th, 2008 The Pentagon has dropped charges against a man alleged to have been the "20th hijacker" in the September 11 attacks, his US military defence lawyer has said.
Mohammed al-Qahtani, who is being held at a US military jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was one of six men facing murder and war crimes charges for their alleged roles in the 2001 attacks.
Bryan Broyles, al-Qahtani's ...
UK must pursue war crimes investigationsMonday, May 12th, 2008 Amnesty International UK today expressed disappointment that despite six months of investigation, the United Kingdom authorities have not been able to amass sufficient evidence to determine whether it is possible to mount a successful prosecution of a Sri Lankan commander suspected of torture, hostage taking and war crimes. Vinavaamoorthi Muraliitharan, commonly known as Colonel Karuna, is suspected of abducting hundreds of teenagers to ...
Bush Administration Sued for Allowing Use of PesticidesMonday, May 12th, 2008 By Jo Hartley | Environmental and farm worker groups have now sued the Bush administration for allowing the continued use of four pesticides. They claim that the government brushed aside its own evidence that the chemicals are toxic to workers, children, and animals.
The suit challenged the Environmental Protection Agency's 2006 decision to reauthorize the four pesticides used on fruit and ...
Heckler at the BackMonday, May 12th, 2008 SchNews | Campaigners in Nottingham have the world’s second largest seller of small-arms, Heckler and Koch, firmly in their sights. One would have thought that a city infamous for its gun crime would be a poor location for a warehouse full of guns. Not according to H&K, who do great business equipping war-mongers on any side.
Proud owners of H&K weaponry include ...
Outrage in UK over staff blacklisting databaseMonday, May 12th, 2008 By Niall Byrne | Last week the announcement that several UK retailers were collaborating on compiling a database of employees dismissed over suspicion of theft or fraud caused furore amongst the public, trade unions and civil liberties groups. The database is the brainchild of Action Against Business Crime (AABC), the national organisation for Business ...
Blackwater back to IraqMonday, May 12th, 2008 Outrage over the killings prompted the Iraqi government to demand Blackwater's ouster from the country. But after an intense public and private lobbying campaign, Blackwater appears to be back to business as usual.
The State Department has just renewed its contract to provide security for US diplomats in Iraq for at least another year.
Threats by the Iraqi government to strip Western contractors of ...
Planets by the DozenMonday, May 12th, 2008 By Dr. Tony Phillips | You know the planets of our solar system, each a unique world with its own distinctive appearance, size, and chemistry. Mars, with its bitter-cold, rusty red sands; Venus, a fiery world shrouded in thick clouds of sulfuric acid; sideways Uranus and its strange vertical rings. The variety is breathtaking.
Now imagine the variety that must ...
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