Globe et courrier
Pour la première fois dans l'histoire, plus d'une dans chaque 100 adultes américains est en prison ou prison, selon un nouveau rapport dépistant la montée subite dans la population de détenu et invitant des états pour retenir en coûts de corrections avec des programmes condamnants d'alternative.
Le rapport, libéré jeudi par le centre de siège sur les états, dits […]

CHICAGO TRIBUNE - United Technologies Corp. dimanche public fait par $3 milliards non sollicités a offert pour Diebold, un des plus grands fabricants des guichets automatiques et des machines de vote. Technologies unies, qui premier Diebold approché il y a deux ans, au commencement fait l'offre dans vendredi privé. The bid amounts to $40 a share in cash, or a […]

Conservative leader David Cameron has accused the Government of “breaking the military covenant” as he launched a Commission to draw up proposals to improve support for Britain’s armed forces.
Mr Cameron said ministers were letting troops down on equipment, healthcare, family support and accommodation and promised a defence review to ensure that a future Tory government […]

Marcus Morgan
Last Friday, the Labour government took out a high court injunction to prevent a former member of the British Special Air Services, Ben Griffin, from revealing further details about the government’s involvement in “extraordinary rendition”

The US administration coined the term to cover the practice of sending arrested terrorist suspects to dozens of detention facilities […]

By Nicholas Christian
PRINCE Harry’s tour of duty in Afghanistan was a “PR stunt” that has not fooled the British public, publicist Max Clifford has claimed.

The Royal’s 10-week deployment at the front was “virtual reality” because Army chiefs would have kept him away from any actual danger of being hurt, the PR guru added. He said […]

Multiple 9/11s every day of the year: Why is there no war on this terror?
By Shreeram Krishnaswami
“Another child will die in the time it takes to read this sentence. And the death of that child, a child who had a name and a personality, a family and a future, is a rebuke to all humanity. […]

The Student Climate Project
All are invited to take part in a mass action against soaring public transport prices on Sunday 20th April. We encourage people from all walks of life to board trains into the central London terminals, refusing to pay the fare. People will converge together at the terminals at around 1pm. The action […]

Israel has pulled back its troops from the Gaza Strip with an army spokesman saying that military operations in the territory were “winding down”.
The move came after an intense Israeli assault that killed eight more Palestinians overnight on Monday, adding to the more than 100 people killed in the past six days.
The Israeli army spokesman […]

icWales 
THE UK Government is set to miss its target of halving the number of children living in poverty by around one million, MPs warn today.
The Commons Work and Pensions Committee said that it was still possible to turn the situation around before the target date of 2010 – but only if ministers were prepared to […]

SchNEWS looks at how corporations and governments are limiting and controlling the varieties of crops grown…
Last week, in France, the independent seed-saving and selling Association Kokopelli were fined €35,000 after being taken to court by corporate seed merchant Baumaux. Their crime was selling traditional and rare seed varieties which weren’t on the official EU-approved […]

Nicol Stephen told the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference at the weekend that they must hold hard to the defining liberal issue of civil liberties.
Labour threatened to erode these through detention without trial, DNA databases, ID cards, biometrics, CCTV and stop-and-search powers, he told delegates in Aviemore.He said: “Our approach is founded on a fundamental principle […]

BY SHAUN JEPSON
A Former Derbyshire Deputy Chief Constable, who established the national DNA police database, believes genetic samples should be taken from everyone at birth.
Don Dovaston, pictured, also said that immigrants should have their DNA recorded.
He believes the benefits of a universal database far outweigh any human rights issues. Mr Dovaston said not only did […]

APP
The top UN human rights official, reacting to the recent violence between Israel and the Palestinians,has called for an investigation into the reported killing of dozens of civilians, including children, in Gaza by Israeli military.
While recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour condemned the Israeli Defence Force’s “disproportionate […]

Ben Griffin speaks to World Against War rally before being gagged by UK Government
Stop the War
“As of 1940hrs 29/02/08 I have been placed under an injunction preventing me from speaking publicly and publishing material gained as a result of my service in UKSF (SAS).
I will be continuing to collect evidence and opinion on British Involvement […]

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