By Susan C. Strong
The administration’s torture policy is driven by fear and false assumptions. It’s time the public learned the truth about pain-tainted information.
Despite Mukasey’s confirmation and the next round of holidays coming on, progressives must not let up on the torture issue now. It has great power. It goes to the core of what […]
By Louise Story and Brad Stone
The New York Times
Faced with its second mass protest by members in its short life span, Facebook, the enormously popular social networking Web site, is reining in some aspects of a controversial new advertising program.
Within the last 10 days, more than 50,000 Facebook members have signed a petition objecting to […]
AAP
FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib says he did not reveal details of his torture in early interviews with media and others because he was told not to by his doctors and lawyers.
Mr Habib was giving evidence today in second-stage defamation proceedings against Nationwide News, over a February 2005 column in Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph.
A […]
The suggestion by James Hall that Project Stork (Letters, November 29) has nothing to do with the national identity scheme is risible. The roadmap for the project was presented on June 13 at this year’s European e-identity conference in Paris. Frank Leyman, manager for international relations at FEDICT (the Belgian public service responsible for e-government), […]
By J A Blacker, Science Correspondent
RINF Alternative News
What level of lies, deceit , treason and down right inhuman behaviour do the United States of America & its NEOCONS elite practice?
Well, this is just a sanitized taste of the level of utter bile these so called allies exhibit, with friends like these who needs brutal & […]
New Yorkers know this Rudy Giuliani. He was a bully, he regularly called people names, he was divisive, thin skinned, and arrogant. A Giuliani presidency would be packed with his ring kissing cronies and neocons eager to exploit his aggressiveness in the Middle East. Be very, very careful.
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Rudy Giuliani Does Business With Sheik Who Helped 9/11 Mastermind Elude FBI
Three weeks after 9/11, when the roar of fighter jets still haunted the city’s skyline, the emir of gas-rich Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani, toured Ground Zero. Although a member of the emir’s own royal family had harbored the man who would later […]
AP
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told President George W. Bush on Wednesday that Beijing’s refusal to let a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier into Hong Kong was a “misunderstanding,” the White House said.
The Defence Department said it had issued a formal complaint to China and that Beijing still had not provided sufficient explanation for blocking the […]
Ashling O’Connor
When Tapan Bose fell behind on his car loan repayments to the largest commercial bank in India he could not have known that it would leave his friend’s son requiring 12 stitches in his battered skull.
Mr Bose escaped a vicious beating by a gang of the country’s notorious debt collectors because he was inside […]
The supply of dollars is now so profuse that it is always higher than the banks’ purchasing capacity. Banks now buy dollars in dribs and drabs, as they do not have enough VND.
The volume of dollars flowing into Eximbank these days is 30% higher than the same period last year. In the first 10 months […]
The fix was in
US elections are rigged long before the voting results are falsified.
The news media helps the process along by making (or trying to make) legitimate candidates disappear.
In the 2008 campaign for president, the candidate the news media is trying to trivialize and marginalize Ron Paul.
In 1992, the “disappeared” candidate was Democrat Larry […]
Stephen Demetriou
There has been peer-reviewed scientific research in the past couple of years that has provided significant support to the arguments of the 911 Truth Movement. First though, as there is a vocal minority[1] that resorts to the misleading charge that the movement’s cause is in pursuit of a far-fetched conspiracy, and it’s membership,[2] (and […]
By Jerry White
President Bush and the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki signed an agreement Monday paving the way for the long-term occupation of the Middle Eastern country and its transformation into a semi-colonial protectorate of the US.
The “Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship” outlines plans for the establishment of permanent […]