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Political NewsTougher terror laws actually enhance freedoms, claims BrownTuesday, June 17th, 2008 By James Kirkup | The Prime Minister used a speech in London to defend his Government's record on civil liberties in the light of last week's Labour rebellion over the detention of terror suspects and the high-profile challenge being mounted by David Davis, the former Tory front bencher.
Some 36 Labour MPs last week voted against the Government's plans to hold ...
LAW SCHOOL TO ORGANIZE BUSH WAR CRIMES TRIALTuesday, June 17th, 2008 By Sherwood Ross | A conference to plan the prosecution of President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes will be held September 13-14 at the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover .
"This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred," said convener Lawrence Velvel, dean and cofounder of ...
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 ...
Bush Pledges on Iraq Bases Pact Were a RuseSaturday, June 14th, 2008 By Gareth Porter - Inter Press Service | WASHINGTON - Two key pledges made by the George W. Bush administration on military bases in its negotiations with the government of Iraq have now been revealed as carefully-worded ruses aimed at concealing U.S. negotiating aims from both U.S. citizens and Iraqis who would object to them if they were made clear.
Recent statements ...
US Congressman Moves to Impeach BushWednesday, June 11th, 2008 Belfast Telegraph | Former Democratic presidential contender, Dennis Kucinich, has called for the impeachment of George W Bush claiming that the president set out to deceive the nation, and violated his oath of office with the Iraq war.
The Ohio representative yesterday introduced 35 articles of impeachment against Bush on the floor of the US House of Representatives.
Kucinich unveiled a ...
Can the US empire strike back?Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 By Alex Callinicos | Despite opposing the war, Obama is committed to US imperialism. Imagine, in a galaxy far, far away, an empire in decline. A disastrous military adventure and the rise of new powers have exposed its weakness. To cap it all, the emperor himself is generally despised as a provincial clod.
But now his successor has to be chosen. ...
The Heinous Crimes of George W. Bush in 35 Articles of ImpeachmentWednesday, June 11th, 2008 By Elaine Brower & Cheryl Abraham | Monday, June 9, 2008 was an astoundingly historic night for the United States of America. In the evening a mild mannered Congressman named Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) took to the floor of the House of Representatives and began to read a startling document, a document laying out 35 articles of impeachment against George ...
World’s top scientists say G8 must lead way on carbon captureTuesday, June 10th, 2008 G8 governments must lead the way in developing technology to catch carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations as part of immediate action on climate change, scientists urged today. The national science academies in the G8 countries - along with those of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa - called on their leaders to take measures to cut emissions and ...
Democrats introduce bill to outlaw Pentagon propagandaTuesday, June 10th, 2008 By Muriel Kane | Last April, the New York Times revealed that retired officers serving as military analysts on television news shows had regularly been briefed by the Pentagon and supplied with pro-war and pro-administration talking points.The program was "temporarily suspended" by the Pentagon a week later. Now four senators have introduced legislation to prevent it from resuming.
Senators ...
Fisk: The West’s weapon of self-delusionTuesday, June 10th, 2008 By Robert Fisk | So they are it again, the great and the good of American democracy, grovelling and fawning to the Israeli lobbyists of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), repeatedly allying themselves to the cause of another country and one that is continuing to steal Arab land.
Will this ever end? Even Barack Obama – or "Mr Baracka" as ...
House Democrats Want Bush Admin Investigated for War CrimesMonday, June 9th, 2008 By Jason Leopold | House Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey Friday requesting that he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether White House officials, including President Bush, violated the War Crimes Act when they allowed interrogators to use brutal interrogation methods against detainees suspected of ties to terrorist organizations.
The letter, signed by 56 Congressional lawmakers, including ...
Have Government officials broken EU rules?Sunday, June 8th, 2008 IC Wales | QUESTIONS have been raised over whether European rules are being broken in the running of a new £92m business grant scheme. The concerns follow a meeting at the Holland House Hotel in Cardiff on Thursday, when senior Assembly Government officials briefed members of the Welsh business community about the new system.
Someone who attended the meeting, who did not ...
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