• 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?...

   

• Lorry drivers to shut down London roads in protest

  

  May 26, 2008 21:32

  Lorry drivers are to pour into London tomorrow for what organisers hope will be the largest-ever fuel duty protest in the...

   

• 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...

   

• 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....

   

• 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...

   

• Indymedia Responds to SHIfT article

  Indymedia | Before turning to the article, it is worth noting that the issue’s Editorial makes similar allegations...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• TV News Stresses Strategy, Downplays Issues

  TV news coverage of the presidential primaries has focused on campaign strategy rather than candidates’ stands on issues,...

   

• Indymedia and Anti-Semitism

  Shift Magazine | For many of us a visit to Indymedia UK is a frustrating experience. Its open publishing newswire reveals...

   

• London bus drivers to get DNA ‘spit kits’

  

  May 24, 2008 9:48

  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...

   

• 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. ...

   

• “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...

   

• Rice’s Lies About Torture

  By Dave Lindorff | Is anyone surprised that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that the Bush/Cheney administration’s...

   

• 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...

   

• Criminal DNA left unchecked for 13 months

  PSCA | A report has found “significant shortcomings” in the Crown Prosecution’s Service’s (CPS) data...

   

• Consciousness of Guilt: Genocide in Iraq?

  Counterpunch | Despite the precipitous plunge in his popularity and growing criticism of his competency, character, and...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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,...

   

• Why should we pay the Orwellian licence fee?

  

  May 19, 2008 18:54

  By Patrick West | Some government public information services or advertisements on behalf of state services never change....

   

• Iran busts CIA terror network

  Tehran Times – TEHRAN | The Intelligence Ministry on Saturday released details of the detection and dismantling of...

   

• 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...

   

• Cluster Bomb Ban Opposed by US, China, Russia

  

  May 19, 2008 17:39

  By Nick Cumming-Bruce – GENEVA | Believe the advocates of a treaty banning cluster munitions, and the international...

   

• 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...