The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran. If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps a third act of naked aggression -- a third war crime under the Nuremberg standard -- by the Bush Regime ...

US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents share information about their suspects Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects. Agencies such as the National Security Agency have bought servers on which Google-supplied search technology is used to process information gathered by networks of spies around the world. Google is also providing the search ...

Supporting many European Union officials stance, US Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has called for the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison for alleged terrorist detainees. “I believe we should close Guantanamo,” McCain, who spent six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said in a foreign policy address in Los Angeles, where he argued that the United States cannot go it alone in the ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The U.S. has charged a Guantanamo prisoner with war crimes for the deadly 1998 al-Qaida attack on the American embassy in Tanzania. The Pentagon said Monday that Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani could receive the death penalty if convicted by a military tribunal at the U.S. military prison. The charges against Ghailani include murder and attacking civilians for his alleged role in a bombing that killed 11 people ...

Meg Bernhardt ANNAPOLIS -- A bill to allow officers to take a sample of DNA from people charged with certain violent crimes is close to passage in the Maryland General Assembly, despite fears that it could infringe on those people's rights. Among the critics is the NAACP. In Frederick County, NAACP chapter president Guy Djoken said he is concerned. He points to analyses of local data, including The Frederick ...

London - The judge in the inquest on the death of Princess Diana in 1997 flatly told the jury Monday that she was not murdered in any alleged plot instigated by the British secret service. Lord Justice Scott Baker, giving his summing up, said there was "not a shred of evidence" that Britain's MI6 was involved in a plot to kill Diana, as alleged by Egyptian businessman and Harrods owner ...

More Buddhist monks, nuns likely to revolt against injustice, oppression. BANGKOK, Thailand - Buddhist monks hurling rocks at Chinese in Tibet, or peacefully massing against Myanmar's military, can strike jarring notes. These scenes run counter to Buddhism's philosophy of shunning politics and embracing even bitter enemies — something the faith has adhered to, with some tumultuous exceptions, through its 2,500-year history. But political activism and occasional eruptions ...

Says he received electric shocks in Afghanistan after being seized over alleged links to 9/11. WASHINGTON – A resident of Germany who was imprisoned for two months at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan has told an interviewer his interrogators hung him from a ceiling for five days and that several doctors periodically checked him before authorizing the torture to continue. Murat Kurnaz said that shortly after his capture ...

Richard Taylor Britain’s police want to routinely put children as young as five on the National DNA Database (NDNAD), even when no crime has been committed. Gary Pugh, the DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard, recently told the press, “The number of unsolved crimes says we are not sampling enough of the right people.” According to Pugh, ...

The coroner in charge of the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales is to begin his summing up to the jury. It is the final stage before the 11-person jury, which has sat for six months, is sent out to consider its verdicts. The coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker will take the jury back through the key evidence heard at the central London hearing. Over six months they have heard ...

Having failed to get rid of Brian Haw by force the Greater London Authority is trying again by legislation, their responses to the government consultation 'Managing Protest around Parliament' all seem to be aimed at getting rid of the peace camp. And the government agrees with them, SOCrAP isn't buried yet and they're already robbing its corpse. Time for a protest outside City Hall? "The Government received 512 responses during the 12 ...

An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War. Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt, which had what they described as "graphic anti-war images." Zirkel, a deacon at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, ...

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 ...

This 4 minute video describes how Halliburton is poisoning the troops in Iraq through their water supply. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FJC_OrO3Nw[/youtube]

David Hytner at White Hart Lane Kevin Keegan noted last week that it did not take much to set Geordie pulses racing. A couple of wins at the beginning of a season and the team are going to win the Premier League, he said with a smile. Newcastle is that kind of town. Back-to-back victories have been a rarity this season, which has been one to test ...