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Contributions & GuestsWorld Governments Misleading and Failing Iraqi RefugeesWednesday, June 18th, 2008 Amnesty International | The international community is evading its responsibility towards refugees from Iraq by promoting a false picture of the security situation in Iraq when the country is neither safe nor suitable for return, Amnesty International said today.
In its new report, Rhetoric and reality: the Iraqi refugee crisis, which is based on recent research and interviews with Iraqi ...
Bush’s “ownership society” hits the canvasWednesday, June 18th, 2008 By Mike Whitney | The economy is in tatters. Consumer confidence has plummeted, food and energy prices are soaring, and the housing market is experiencing its biggest crash since the Great Depression. Manufacturing is down, unemployment is up, gasoline is topping $4 per gallon, and tent cities are sprouting up throughout the Southwest. If there's a silver lining to this mess; it's ...
How powerful is the mass media?Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Socialist Worker | Our rulers can’t fool all of the people all of the time, argues Sadie Robinson. The idea that the mass media controls our ideas is a very common one. According to this theory, the media acts as a kind of syringe that injects propaganda directly into our minds.
People are seen as sheep that follow the media ...
Police attack anti-Bush protestorsWednesday, June 18th, 2008 By Stewart Office | The ban on the demonstration down Whitehall to protest the visit of war criminal George Bush was enforced with violence by the Metropolitan police. Two protestors were hospitalised by baton weilding police. Stop the War Coalition have organised over 20 national protests all of which have been peaceful. We have written a letter of protest ...
Hacker Appeals To House Of LordsTuesday, June 17th, 2008 By Christopher Nickson | A British hacker accused to accessing US military and Nasa computers has taken his case against extradition to the House of Lords, arguing it would breach his human rights. Gary McKinnon, known as Solo, has never denied that he hacked into 97 US military and Nasa computers from his London home in 2002. ...
Read the Government Report On Slavery and IraqTuesday, June 17th, 2008 Irregular Times | There is a report that was released by the U.S. State Department just at the end of last week, and it’s something that every American ought to take at least a short look at: It’s the Trafficking in Persons Report for 2008, a document that summarizes the problem of slavery around the world.
Sadly, there are ...
The Boys in the BubbleTuesday, June 17th, 2008 Via Blair Watch | Oh, the Good old Westminster bubble, the small enclosed world of Britain's political class. We noticed that, almost unanimously they pronounced David Davis as a wild nutcase off on a farcical flight of fancy. Indeed it was remarkable at just how slow to react the major parties were.
Then the polls came in. The ...
Government caves in to pressure from BushMonday, June 16th, 2008 The real purpose of George Bush's visit to London became clear this afternoon, as Des Browne was set to announce more British troops are to be sent to Afghanistan, and Bush and Gordon Brown declared their intention to enforce further sanctions on Iran.
The tea in Windsor Castle and dinner in Downing St made the visit look like a social occasion, a farewell ...
Commons report: British “surveillance society”Saturday, June 14th, 2008 QAS | The Commons' home affairs committee has submitted a report warning of the danger of Britain becoming a surveillance society. The report calls on the government to promise the proposed ID card scheme will not be used to spy on people.
"We recommend that the Home Office produce a report on the intended functions of the national identity scheme in ...
Our Government’s Dirty Little SecretsSaturday, June 14th, 2008 By George Galloway | A Government ready to rely on those friends of liberty, the Democratic Unionist party, to shred the liberties of our own people are almost by definition unembarrassable, but I hope this evening to add to the issues ventilated in a recent Channel 4 “Dispatches” programme to adumbrate the extent to which the tragedy in Somalia, which so many ...
Change, What Change?Saturday, June 14th, 2008 CounterPunch | On Tuesday June 3 Barack Obama claimed the greatest prize the Democratic Party can offer, namely his nomination as its candidate for the presidency. The very next day the salesman of “change” raced from Minnesota back to Washington and publicly abased himself at the feet of an organization whose prime mission is to ...
It’s Conyers’s Time to Act on ImpeachmentSaturday, June 14th, 2008 Dennis Kucinich is saying exactly what you were saying before you became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Now you have the power. Use it. To hell with Pelosi and Hoyer.
By Matthew Rothschild | Now. Not to delay. Not to cower. Not to bend to the will of Nancy Pelosi. But to stand up tall for the Constitution as ...
Democracy in the EU InstitutionsSaturday, June 14th, 2008 Blair Watch | There is much debate over the Irish rejection of the Lisbon treaty, but what I'm finding interesting is how a democratic decision by an electorate is regarded in the EU institutions. Remember, most nations have ratified the treaty by shoving it through their national parliament, often with little debate.
How people respond and react will say a ...
A New Kind Of Corporate SlaverySaturday, June 14th, 2008 Corporations are getting rich using federal prisoners as captive labor pools.
By Betty Brink | Unless she’s dying or recovering from surgery, a patient at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell must work. The hospital out on the banks of
Lake Worth is run by the Bureau of Prisons, and its patients are women who have ...
A Cynic’s Guide To 9/11 Conspiracy TheoriesFriday, June 13th, 2008
The Wolverhampton Radiophonic Institute has just broadcast a seventeen minute documentary which examines the British Truth Movement. The show includes Paul Stott of 9/11 CultWatch and John White of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
The show highlights some of the uglier sides to the British Truth movement - which must not be ignored, including abundant racism, a cult like mentality and the refusal to objectively look at hard facts.
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