• Outrage in UK over staff blacklisting database

  By Niall Byrne | Last week the announcement that several UK retailers were collaborating on compiling a database of employees...

   

• Blackwater back to Iraq

  

  May 12, 2008 12:19

  Outrage over the killings prompted the Iraqi government to demand Blackwater’s ouster from the country. But after an...

   

• Planets by the Dozen

  By Dr. Tony Phillips | You know the planets of our solar system, each a unique world with its own distinctive appearance,...

   

• The Prosecution of George W. Bush

  By Vincent Bugliosi | There is direct evidence that President George W. Bush did not honorably lead this nation, but deliberately...

   

• Officers routinely lied to obtain search warrants

  By STEVE VISSER | A former Atlanta police officer testified Thursday that narcotics officers routinely lied under oath when...

   

• Will the Mortgage Industry Pay for Its Crimes?

  By Danny Schechter | There is a time in the life of every writer when you find yourself fearing that you have become a robo...

   

• Roots of surveillance standoff go back decades

  By Shane Harris | In the old days, everyone was linked to a lug nut, and Jim Kallstrom liked it that way. It was 1985, a...

   

• UN suspends aid flights after Burma impounds food

  By Rachel Stevenson, Julian Borger, Ian MacKinnon and agencies | The UN today suspended aid flights to Burma after emergency...

   

• Peak Food: Blaming the Victims

  By Nafeez Ahmed | I’ve already written about this in previous posts under the ‘hidden holocaust’ theme,...

   

• The Challenge Of Modern Slavery

  By Loretta Napoleoni | Slavery is in our refrigerators. From fruit to beef, from sugar to coffee, slave labor brings food...

   

• Does Organic Really Mean Organic?

  By David Gutierrez | The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has renewed its approval for 46 non-organically produced substances...

   

• The New Whopper: Burger with a Side of Spies

  PR Watch | Author Eric Schlosser editorializes about “the growing threat to civil liberties posed by corporate spying,”...

   

• Under U.S. Law Torture is Always Illegal

  By Marjorie Cohn | What does torture have in common with genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They are all jus cogens....

   

• Pentagon’s Propaganda Documents Go Online

  By John Stauber | Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon’s illegal propaganda campaign, known as...

   

• The Pentagon vs. America

  By Scott Ritter | I recently heard from an anti-war student I met while I was speaking at a college in northern Vermont....

   

• FBI agents raid office protecting whistleblowers

  AFP | FBI agents on Tuesday raided the Office of Special Counsel and closed down its e-mail system in what appears to be...

   

• Government can’t be trusted with our personal information

  By Margaret Smith | WE have seen only recently just how incompetent the Government is at keeping our personal information...

   

• ID-cards are ‘theft’ of our civil liberties

  

  May 6, 2008 12:04

  By Robert and Alison Bell | The indiscriminate invasion of our privacy and the related issue of six weeks’ detention...

   

• Iraqi alleges Abu Ghraib torture, sues US contractors

  

  May 6, 2008 11:07

  AP | An Iraqi man sued two U.S. military contractors, claiming he was repeatedly tortured while being held at the notorious...

   

• US Navy Deploys Around Latin America

  By Lamia Oualalou | It’s now official: The Pentagon is going to resuscitate its Fourth Fleet, with the mission of patrolling...

   

• Brian Haw Arrested Again – SOCPA

  Rikki – Indymedia | At around 1.30 this afternoon, a community support officer started hassling Aqil Shaerer who is...

   

• UN official decries weakening of press freedom

  Dawn | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has decried weakening of press freedom world over, saying that...

   

• 3.5 Million Tons of Plastic Floating in the Pacific

  David Gutierrez | A mass of plastic debris twice the size of Texas is still growing in the Pacific Ocean, fueled primarily...

   

• English village to be invaded in spybot competition

  By Ceri Perkins  | A village in south-west England will shortly be swarming with robots competing to show off their surveillance...

   

• Worldwide Support for Free Media

  

  May 2, 2008 23:27

  By Mick Meaney – RINF | A new major survey of world nations has found the majority of people support a free media...