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Top StoryThe Surveillance Society Does Not WorkTuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Mick Meaney – RINF | Costing in excess of billions of pounds each year, every single area of the British surveillance society has been proven ill effective when dealing with crime, fraud and terrorism – the very reasons government officials implement such measures.
Which begs the question: How can the Government justify such spending when it also imposes an increasing risk to our personal ...
Worldwide Support for Free MediaFriday, May 2nd, 2008
By Mick Meaney - RINF | A new major survey of world nations has found the majority of people support a free media and strongly object to government control on both traditional and Internet news organisations.
The poll was conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org and involved 18,122 respondents in 20 of the world's largest nations including the United States, Great Britain, China, Russia, India, Egypt, ...
‘Western Leaders Are War Criminals’Saturday, April 26th, 2008
By Mick Meaney - RINF |
The former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, has echoed calls for Western leaders to be charged with war crimes over the invasion of Iraq.
Speaking at Imperial College in London Mahathir, who was in office from 1981 to 2003, singled out US President George Bush, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australia's former prime minister John Howard as ...
Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
By Peter Swire |
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has badly stumbled in discussing the Bush administration’s push to create stricter identity systems. Chertoff was recently in Canada discussing, among other topics, the so-called “Server in the Sky” program to share fingerprint databases among the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Australia.
In a recent briefing with Canadian press (which has yet to be picked up in ...
Hunger Plagues Haiti and the WorldTuesday, April 22nd, 2008
By Stephen Lendman |
Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world's poorest ones people are starving. The reason - soaring food prices, and it's triggered riots around the world in places like Mexico, Indonesia, Yemen, the Philippines, Cambodia, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Peru, Bolivia and Haiti that was once nearly food self-sufficient ...
Torturers in the White HouseTuesday, April 15th, 2008
By Ruth Conniff
The biggest news of the last week went virtually uncovered by the mainstream, print media. ABC News first reported last Wednesday that top Bush Administration officials, including Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, and George Tenet, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld met to discuss which particular torture techniques should be used against Al Qaeda suspects ...
Breaking Through the News FilterTuesday, April 8th, 2008 Peter Chamberlin
If it is true that the power belongs to the people in America, and Congress still answers to the people, then what force prevents the people from rising up to demand that Congress answer to the people's will? The answer to that question is that the "silent majority" is only silent because they have been ...
British army faces new torture claimsSunday, April 6th, 2008 The testament of a respected Shia elder, aged 70, suggests brutal treatment of civilians is still continuing, writes Robert Verkaik.
The British Army faces new allegations of torture and abuse over the arrest and detention of a Shia tribal leader and his family who claim they were hooded and beaten by soldiers based at Basra airport last year.
The allegations could ...
US Lawmakers Have $196 Million In “Defense”Friday, April 4th, 2008 WASHINGTON: Members of the U.S.Congress have as much as $196 million (126.2 million) collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the start of the Iraq war, according to a new study by a nonpartisan research group.The review of lawmakers' 2006 financial disclosure statements, by the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics, suggests that members' ...
Defiant Brown set to tighten law on cannabisThursday, April 3rd, 2008 Downing Street today signalled that Gordon Brown remains determined to tighten the law on cannabis, despite reports that the official advisory body is set to recommend against re-classification.
The Prime Minister's spokesman sought to play down a BBC report that the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) had concluded that there was no need to re-classify cannabis again ...
Bush calls for more eavesdroppingTuesday, April 1st, 2008 US President George W. Bush has called on the Congress to pass a 'vital' pending legislation aimed at loosening domestic eavesdropping rules. Speaking before leaving Washington for Kiev and the NATO summit in Bucharest on Monday, Bush said the US legislature has 'a lot of work to do' as ...
Iraq War Dataset: $506 Billion Spent, 4,002 DeadMonday, March 31st, 2008 Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides
On March 26, 2008 the United States military casualty count in Iraq hit 4,000. When I heard that I decided to research other numbers associated with the war.
Over the past five years, US taxpayers have spent $506 billion on the Iraq War- that is over $100 billion a year just for war related expenses (and ...
Government admits Human Rights breachesFriday, March 28th, 2008 MoD admits human rights breaches over death of tortured Iraqi civilian.
The Government admits "substantial breaches" of the European Convention of Human Rights over the killing of Baha Mousa, an Iraqi who died in the custody of British soldiers, Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, said yesterday.
Bob Ainsworth, the armed forces minister, later expressed "deep regret" over the death of the ...
How Scientology Destroys FamiliesWednesday, March 26th, 2008 The Church of Scientology has a name for its critics: Suppressive Persons, or SPs. Those associated with them are PTS', or Potential Trouble Sources. There are only two ways for a PTS to deal with an SP. Fix whatever the SP's problem is. Or Disconnect.
Like any good cult, the Church of Scientology needs to keep its members in ...
Tabloid Fabricated Heathrow PlotThursday, March 20th, 2008 Evening Standard condemned by press watchdog for coverage of the Camp for Climate Action's Heathrow protest. Claim of fabrication upheld.
In a much awaited ruling the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) issued a stinging rebuke against the Evening Standard today. The usually mild- mannered PCC slammed the Standard's coverage of last summer's Camp for Climate Action at ...
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