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Students Denied Legal Aid
SchNews | Reckon students are all bone-idle skiving filth who haven’t even got the wit to tie their shoelaces properly?...
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Lorry drivers to shut down London roads in protest
Lorry drivers are to pour into London tomorrow for what organisers hope will be the largest-ever fuel duty protest in the...
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Path Intelligence – Phorm for shopping centres?
Spy Blog | Just in case you thought that Phorm was the only threat to your privacy, here is an example of similar “no...
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Indictment and Trial of Bush and Cheney
By David Swanson | Remarks made on May 24, 2008, in Radford, Va., at the Building a New World Conference: http://www.wpaconference.org....
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The War on Drugs – ’30 Years of Failure’
Radley Balko | HBO’s critically acclaimed drama The Wire wrapped up its final season in March. The show has been widely...
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Indymedia Responds to SHIfT article
Indymedia | Before turning to the article, it is worth noting that the issue’s Editorial makes similar allegations...
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US: Respect Rights of Child Detainees in Iraq
Human Rights Watch | US forces in Iraq should ensure that children it takes into custody are treated according to their status...
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Mass Funding For War While There’s Poverty At Home
By Paul Craig Roberts | The US Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush’s wars of aggression against Afghanistan and...
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TV News Stresses Strategy, Downplays Issues
TV news coverage of the presidential primaries has focused on campaign strategy rather than candidates’ stands on issues,...
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Indymedia and Anti-Semitism
Shift Magazine | For many of us a visit to Indymedia UK is a frustrating experience. Its open publishing newswire reveals...
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London bus drivers to get DNA ‘spit kits’
London’s bus drivers who are spat at will be able to collect the saliva in a DNA ‘spit kit’ so the assailant can be...
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Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
By Sam Gardiner | Earlier in the week the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) issued another of its dossiers. ...
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“Immoral Hazard” – A review of Jeremy Grantham’s book
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | So says Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of Boston-based investment firm Grantham, Mayo and...
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Rice’s Lies About Torture
By Dave Lindorff | Is anyone surprised that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that the Bush/Cheney administration’s...
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Here Come the Trials: A Military Commissions Cheat Sheet
By Joanne Mariner | In the more than six years since President George Bush first announced the creation of military commissions...
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Criminal DNA left unchecked for 13 months
PSCA | A report has found “significant shortcomings” in the Crown Prosecution’s Service’s (CPS) data...
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Consciousness of Guilt: Genocide in Iraq?
Counterpunch | Despite the precipitous plunge in his popularity and growing criticism of his competency, character, and...
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UK may store all phone calls and emails
New Scientist | The UK government is considering a massive database to store every person’s emails, phone calls, text...
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FBI Report Details Guantánamo War Crimes
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and SCOTT SHANE | In 2002, as evidence of prisoner mistreatment at Guantánamo Bay began to mount, Federal...
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CIA death squads killing with “impunity” in Afghanistan
By Joe Kay | A United Nations investigator released a preliminary report last week citing widespread civilian deaths in Afghanistan,...
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Why should we pay the Orwellian licence fee?
By Patrick West | Some government public information services or advertisements on behalf of state services never change....
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Iran busts CIA terror network
Tehran Times – TEHRAN | The Intelligence Ministry on Saturday released details of the detection and dismantling of...
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Propaganda and the media
By Joseph L. Galloway | Once upon a time, it was widely believed that one of the greatest sins the U.S. government or its...
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Cluster Bomb Ban Opposed by US, China, Russia
By Nick Cumming-Bruce – GENEVA | Believe the advocates of a treaty banning cluster munitions, and the international...
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Is the Creative Internet Just About Dead?
By Annalee Newitz | A couple of weeks ago I went to the annual Maker Faire in San Mateo, an event where people from all...




