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Cartel de SOCPA fuera de la galería nacional

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Cartel de SOCPA y Ben grande
El limpiar desproporcionado era el nombre del juego en Westminster el sábado, donde estaban de servicio los millares de los centenares si no de policía sobre el área en una tentativa obvia de evitar […]

Los legisladores británicos dicen el `Washington y los aliados' no deben utilizar la fuerza en Irán que la advierte que podría el `provocar un contragolpe extremadamente violento'.
“Cualquier huelga militar contra Irán tendría repercusiones graves del `' para el Oriente Medio,” la Cámara de los Comunes que los asuntos exteriores seleccionan a comité dicho en un informe de domingo.
En su seguridad global del `: Iran’ report, the select committee also […]

One war appears to be going well for the United States and its allies these days: the drug war.
That was the lead in dozens of U.S. newspapers in response to a June 2007 United Nations report claiming that U.S. drug policy has led to a substantial decline in illicit drug use. Chances are the author […]

Reviewed by Brian Precious | SPECTREZINE
Is Notes from the Borderland (NFB) a magazine or a series of pamphlets? One could be forgiven for thinking the latter, since the first issue of this very substantial magazine came out in the Winter of 1997, and the latest issue, issue 8 , only came out last year. This […]

The Telegraph
A council has decided not to install CCTV cameras in a crime-ridden area on the grounds they would “contravene the Human Rights Act”.
John Steele: Keeping an eye on CCTV
Over the past year, anti-social behaviour has soared in the South Hams area of south Devon. But the local authority claims that the cameras would breach […]

By Studs Terkel, Quentin Young, Barbara Flynn Currie and James Montgomery
More than six years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration remains committed to using the specter of those attacks (and other possible new attacks) as justification for reckless, unlawful and unconstitutional behavior. This pattern can be seen most clearly in […]

Herald Tribune 
In the next few days, President George W. Bush is expected to again claim the right to order mistreatment of prisoners that any civilized person would regard as torture. Bush is planning to veto a law that would require the CIA and all the intelligence services to abide by the restrictions on holding and […]

Daily Mail 
US ally Saudi Arabia compared Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip to Nazi war crimes on Sunday and called on the international community to stop what it called the “mass killings” of Palestinians.
Israeli forces killed 61 people in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday, the bloodiest day for Palestinians since an uprising against Israeli occupation began […]

The US President condemns leaders who ’sit down at the table’ with ‘tyrants’ and ‘have pictures taken’ for adopting double standards.
“What’s lost by embracing a tyrant who puts his people in prison because of their political beliefs? What’s lost is it will send the wrong message,” said President George W. Bush during a Thursday […]

The death toll of the Israeli assault on Gaza rises to 60 people on Saturday, marking it the deadliest day of fighting in the coastal region.
Palestinian IMEMC news website quoted head of Gaza’s emergency services, Dr Muawiya Hassanein as saying that there were at least 26 civilians among those killed.
The dead included 5 children, […]

Case that riled privacy advocates turns on unrelated technicalities
By Jaikumar Vijayan
In a move sure to be welcomed by privacy and civil rights advocates, a California District Court judge on Friday lifted a previous permanent injunction that he had issued two weeks ago to disable the controversial Wikileaks.org whistleblower Web site.
Judge Jeffrey White of the U.S. District Court […]

Paul Abrams
John McCain tells us that he is not a very good economist. It brings to mind the old joke that the definition of an economist is someone who is good with numbers but did not have the personality to be an accountant.
Prepare for a campaign during which McCain will prove to everyone that, as […]

Indian Ocean atoll Diego Garcia was used to hold US suspects, human rights investigator claims
Jamie Doward
Britain’s denials that its territories have been used for ‘extraordinary rendition’ were dramatically undermined last night after the United Nations claimed that Diego Garcia has been used as a detention centre to hold US suspects.
Manfred Novak, the United Nations’ special […]